Group Product Manager - Platform Exerperience

Location

Surry Hills

Career Level

Level 3 - High

Number of Reports

3

About Cartology and the Ads Manager Platform

Cartology is the Retail Media Business within Woolworths Group, connecting brands with Clients through innovative experiences. The Ads Manager platform is our central tool for managing and measuring advertising campaigns.

The primary purpose of this role

As the Group Product Manager for Digital Experiences, you will lead and mentor a high-performing team of Product Managers responsible for the Ads Manager platform. Your primary mission is to act as a "player-coach," guiding your team to success while owning the consolidated product roadmap. You will translate high-level strategic vision into a cohesive, actionable plan, ensuring your team is aligned, effective, and delivering exceptional outcomes. You will be the central point of leadership for the product management discipline within your group, fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Strategy Delivery: Own the end-to-end creation and delivery of the consolidated product roadmap for the Ads Manager platform. Synthesize inputs from your product team, senior leadership, and key business stakeholders into a single, prioritised plan that ensures strategic initiatives are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standard.
• People Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Product Managers (3). Foster their career growth, provide regular coaching and feedback, and build a world-class product management culture.
• Product & Thought Leadership: Drive product innovation by identifying and championing opportunities for new technologies to create efficiencies and strengthen the overall client and product experience.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Act as the key product counterpart to engineering, design, and broader business stakeholders. Drive alignment, manage dependencies, and facilitate clear communication to ensure seamless, efficient delivery of value.
• Stakeholder Communication & Alignment: Establish and maintain a rhythm of regular, open communication with key stakeholders to ensure strong alignment, engagement, and contribution to the product plan and roadmap.
• Operational Excellence: Champion and embed product management best practices in discovery, delivery, and go-to-market. Drive a data-informed culture, using insights to guide trade-off decisions and measure the impact of your team's work.

Key Results

• Revenue Growth: Enable the business to realise revenue and profit growth objectives
• Successful Product Launches & Initiatives: Ensure delivery of initiatives is on-time and in-budget, as well as change management and go-to-market requirements are considered and supported
• NPS: Deliver features and value that support a positive and growing NPS / Voice of Clients rating

What you’ll bring

• Experience & Qualifications:
  • 10+ years of product management experience, with a minimum of 3+ years in a formal people leadership role (e.g., Head of product, Principal, or Group Product Manager).
  • Proven track record of managing and scaling complex B2B/SaaS platforms, ideally within an ad-tech, retail media, or eCommerce environment.
  • Demonstrated success in managing multiple product lines or a product portfolio, including roadmap consolidation, prioritization, and strategic trade-offs.
• Leadership & Acumen:
  • A dedicated and empathetic people leader with a passion for coaching and developing talent.
  • Exceptional ability to connect day-to-day product development with higher-level business strategy and commercial outcomes.
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and align peers and leaders across functions.
• Attributes & Cultural Fit:
  • Possesses a strategic, "big picture" mindset combined with a rigorous, detail-oriented approach to execution.
  • Highly accountable, with a proactive attitude and a talent for fostering collaboration within and across teams.
  • Resilient and adaptable, capable of navigating ambiguity and providing clarity and direction for your team.