Head of Product Management & Portfolio (HPP)

A leading global organisation is seeking a Head of Product Management and Portfolio to join their Singapore-based team. This pivotal position offers you the opportunity to shape and drive the effectiveness and coherence of product management and portfolio systems, ensuring products are designed, prioritised, and evolved to meet market and customer needs while delivering sustainable economic value.

• Play a central role in shaping the future of product management and portfolio systems within a globally recognised organisation by designing scalable frameworks that enable consistent product performance.
• Collaborate with talented professionals across Marketing, Technology, Sales, Buying, and Commercial teams to ensure seamless integration of strategies that drive both immediate results and long-term growth.
• Enjoy flexible working opportunities within a supportive environment that encourages professional development through training opportunities and fosters a culture of shared success.

What you'll do:

As Head of Product Management and Portfolio based in Singapore, you will play an instrumental role in shaping how products are managed from conception through delivery to ongoing evolution.

• You will be responsible for designing, stewarding, and evolving the product management operating model including lifecycle governance and capability development to ensure best-in-class standards across the entire portfolio.
• You will establish robust product management standards, practices, and tools that enable consistent execution across all products while integrating seamlessly with Marketing, Technology, Sales, Buying, and Commercial systems.
• You will develop and translate product strategy into actionable portfolio investment decisions supported by clear governance frameworks that balance strategic growth with optimisation initiatives.
• You will create mechanisms that make trade-offs explicit between innovation investments and near-term market responsiveness while ensuring portfolio composition aligns with enterprise priorities.
• You will oversee the coherence and prioritisation of product roadmaps across the portfolio by leveraging market insights, customer needs analysis, technical dependencies assessment, and economic value evaluation.
• You will implement prioritisation frameworks that balance customer impact with business value while maintaining transparency through effective communication with stakeholders.
• You will ensure the integrity and application of market, customer, and usage insights across all product decisions by systematically capturing feedback loops connecting customer outcomes to ongoing product evolution.
• You will develop deep understanding of competitor products to inform strategic pivots as well as maintain pricing architecture responsive to competitive shifts while safeguarding margin integrity.
• You will monitor product-level economics closely adjusting pricing or packaging as needed to optimise financial performance at the portfolio level.
• You will establish frameworks tracking adoption rates, utilisation metrics, retention figures, and overall customer value realisation ensuring continuous improvement based on data-driven insights.

What you bring:

To excel as Head of Product Management and Portfolio you bring substantial experience overseeing complex portfolios within multinational environments where system clarity drives success more than direct intervention.

• Extensive experience successfully leading large-scale product management functions or portfolio systems within complex organisations spanning multiple regions or market segments.
• Deep capability in managing full product lifecycles including governance processes that support scalable growth while maintaining operational excellence.
• Demonstrated proficiency linking architectural decisions around products directly to pricing strategies as well as monetisation models resulting in sustainable economic outcomes.
• Proven track record utilising market research alongside customer insight analytics to guide strategic execution at both tactical and enterprise levels.
• Experience fostering cross-functional collaboration among Marketing, Technology, Sales, Buying or Commercial teams ensuring alignment towards common objectives.
• Ability to lead through clarity of systems rather than hands-on delivery—empowering others while providing clear direction rooted in organisational strategy.
• Exceptional judgement when it comes to prioritising competing demands coupled with strong communication skills for stakeholder engagement.
• Commercially minded approach underpinned by pragmatic decision-making focused on measurable outcomes over arbitrary targets or trends.
• Resilience in adapting quickly amidst changing circumstances combined with an outcome-oriented mindset driven by continuous improvement principles.
• Team-oriented attitude demonstrated through active support for colleagues at all levels contributing positively beyond functional interests.

What's next:

If you are ready to shape the future of global product management while enjoying unparalleled support from a collaborative team environment—this is your moment!

Do note that we will only be in touch if your application is shortlisted.
Robert Walters (Singapore) Pte Ltd
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