Market and Product Development Manager

**Location: Brisbane, Australia**

**Role Purpose**:
This role is positioned in the travel line of business with the goal to define market and product innovations whilst also providing governance and strategic frameworks for effective implementation of the travel business plan.

A typical day in this broad based role would include being involved in the portofolio managment of the travel insurance business from strategy to implementation. What this means is that you will love participating in the development of strategy and providing recommendations to captialise our position in the travel insurance market.

You will be responsible for delivering market insights, finding the growth opportunities across market, product or services and defining segmentation and channel strategies. Your strategic and problem solving mindset will also enjoy being responsible for insightful and commercially sound analysis, distilling key issues and contributing to fact based recommendations.

This will include identifying key drivers, trends and opportunities within the industry. You will be chomping at the bit to analyse and interpret financial and operational data into key insights and analytics. You will enjoy the challenge of creating momentum and change within the business whilst provoking thought leadership in the market.

**Your responsibilities include**:
1. Market Insights delivery and driving Customer Lab opportunities

2. Defining and delivering Market Development Plan and innovations

3. Defining and delivering Product Development Plan and innovations

4. Support validation of Segmentation and define Channel Plan

Key deliverables include:

- Deliver optimal product portfolio mix for sustainable growth
- Define target markets, segments, channels, market share/size, competitor benchmarking
- Define and identify products & service needs for the market
- Lead the translation of insights and unmet needs into value propositions for our partners
- Define digital trends and recommend platforms required
- Building systems and processes to support regional competency in our Asian sister countries including market monitoring - size, share, trends and competive landscape, working with local compatriots
- Ensure outputs meet compliance standards and regulations within the financial services sector

**What we offer**
- University degree in Marketing, Commerce or Business and practical experience in creating growth opportunities through product and market innovations in a B2B2C, B2B and/or B2C environment
- A love for creating change and being resilient to the hard roads to make this happen
- Someone who understands the difference between task and bringing people along for the ride, selling the sizzle and the why, not just the what
- Bringing framework and structures to enable the business to identify opportunities from concept to activation
- Experience in shaping the strategic direction of the business to deliver maximum value
- Able to interconnect the dots from strategy to operationalisation at front line
- Market and/or product development, strategy analyst and innovation experience
- Strong analytical skills and great at interpreting data, confident making recommendations and communicating the result
- Highly developed negotiation and analytical skills, including the capacity to initiate creative and innovative thinking to support the organization to reach its objectives

“Diversity and inclusion are strongly supported at Allianz Partners Australia. People of all nationalities, gender identities and cultural backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are strongly encouraged to apply.”

32048 | Product Management | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent


**Job Level**:
Professional

**Location**:

- Brisbane, QLD, AU, 4000**Area of Expertise**:
Product Management

**Unit**:
Allianz Partners

**Employing Entity**:
AWP Australia Pty Ltd

**Job Type**:
Full-Time

**Remote Job**:
Hybrid working

**Employment Type**:
Permanent

**ID**:
32048