Job from partnerThe Product Portfolio Lead is accountable for the strategy, performance, and evolution of the assigned product portfolio across Enterprise, Government, and Wholesale segments. This role manages end-to-end commercial outcomes including revenue growth, margin expansion, market share, and customer value.
This leader defines what we build, why we build it, and how we win in the market, bringing deep domain expertise in products and translating technology trends, customer needs, and competitive dynamics into a differentiated and future-ready portfolio. The role leads a team of Product Managers and operates as a critical bridge between Product, Technology, Sales, and Operations, ensuring strong alignment between strategy and execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and own a clear, multi-year strategy for the assigned portfolio, aligned to business growth ambitions across Enterprise, Government, and Wholesale segments
- Identify priority growth areas, emerging technologies, and investment focus, and translate macro industry trends into a coherent, executable roadmap
- Own full P&L accountability for the assigned portfolio, including revenue, margin, and profitability outcomes
- Lead pricing strategy, packaging, and yield optimisation, ensuring all products have clear value propositions and deliver measurable commercial outcomes
- Drive disciplined investment decisions through strong business casing and performance tracking
- Lead the full lifecycle of assigned products from concept through launch, growth, optimisation, and retirement
- Set clear priorities across the portfolio, ensuring alignment with technology capacity and business objectives, and drive delivery excellence to ensure products are launched on time, at quality, and achieve their commercial intent
- Act as the organisation’s leading authority on the assigned products, maintaining deep understanding of customer needs, competitive positioning, and industry evolution
- Ensure strong alignment between product strategy and go-to-market execution by partnering closely with Sales and Marketing to define compelling segment-specific propositions and sales plays.
Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of experience in product management, with significant exposure to telecommunications or network-based products
- Proven ability to lead complex product portfolios and senior teams, with a strong track record of owning P&L outcomes and delivering sustained commercial growth
- Deep domain expertise in networking technologies including IP, long haul, transport, SD-WAN, cloud connectivity, and related areas, with the ability to translate technical capability into clear customer value propositions
- Highly developed strategic thinking, commercial acumen, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to operate effectively at both executive and operational levels.
What We Offer
Working at Vocus will give you rewarding experiences and the opportunity to do extraordinary work. You will enjoy:
- Diverse and dynamic teams with a supportive and inclusive culture.
- Supportive career development plans with comprehensive ongoing training, support, and development opportunities.
- Generous discounts to over 400 retailers.
- Competitive leave options, including anniversary leave, purchased leave, parental leave, volunteering leave, study leave, and 5 extra days of Vocus leave each year, plus more.
- Study assistance programs to excel your personal growth, learning and development.
- Health and wellness offerings, including access to our wellbeing initiatives that can help you from a financial, psychological, and physical perspective.
Working at Vocus is never just a job – it’s personal. We’re crazy about our customers and believe our people are the difference. Our wonderfully diverse team and a vibrant culture define us. We care about the impact we have on our people, our customers, and our communities and are committed to operating as a responsible, ethical business.
We pride ourselves on setting audacious and ambitious goals and believe that we can play our part in changing the Australian telecommunications landscape and make a fundamental difference to people’s lives.
With us, you’ll have the opportunity to lead and inspire teams, work on projects that are shaping the future of telecommunications and become part of a culture that thrives on creativity, encourages new ideas, and provides a collaborative and inclusive environment.
About Us
As Australia’s specialist fibre and network solutions provider, we own and operate 25,000km of secure, high-capacity fibre connecting people, businesses, governments, and communities across Australia to the world. Through our well-known retail brands, we deliver simple and affordable broadband, mobile, voice and energy services with the purpose of Building Critical Connections. Enabling Better Possibilities.
Ready to take the next step?
If you like the sound of this role and think you’d do a great job, but are worried you don’t tick every box, we encourage you to back yourself – we know that diverse groups are less-likely to apply for roles they’re not 100% qualified for, but just as likely to succeed at them!
We are a proud equal opportunity employer committed to providing a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment where all our team members feel like they belong. We know diversity makes us stronger and we encourage applications irrespective of background, age, origin, gender, sexual orientation, identity, or ability.
If you feel comfortable, please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements upon application, so we can make any adjustments required to support you throughout our recruitment process.
