Woolworths Group Looking for Director – Transformation and Accelerator Businesses – relocate to New Zealand at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Full Time

Woolworths Group is a food and everyday needs retailer united by the shared purpose of creating better experiences together for a better tomorrow. With more than 1,400 stores across its Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown Supermarkets (New Zealand) and BIG W brands, and fast-growing eCommerce businesses, Woolworths Group is Australia and New Zealand’s largest retailer. A top 10 company on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Woolworths Group employs more than 180,000 team members and serves more than 20 million customers a week.

About Us

Woolworths New Zealand is New Zealand’s largest private sector employer, with turnover of ~$8bn and a team of 22,000 Kiwis serving 3 million customers across 191 Countdown supermarkets and 72 franchise stores every week.

As part of Woolworths Group, we are committed to our purpose of creating better experiences together for a better tomorrow and making Kiwis’ lives a little better every day. We are proud to be NZ’s largest online retailer and we are passionate about continuing to innovate in the areas of digital, rewards, analytics, fresh food and sustainability.

The Role

We have an exciting transformation agenda and as we embark on our next transformation horizon, we are looking to make a key appointment onto our Executive Leadership Team.

Reporting into the Managing Director of Woolworths New Zealand, the Director of Transformation & Accelerator Businesses will play a key role in driving our transformation to become an even better business for our customers, team, partners, and communities. This role will be based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Partnering closely with both the New Zealand leadership team and across Woolworths Group, this role is responsible for developing strategy and orchestrating the delivery of our transformation. Core to the role will be a focus on understanding the broader retail context, the NZ market, industry and competitive trends, whilst leveraging the best of Woolworths Group, to create and implement a plan to deliver growth and competitive advantage.

This role will lead the delivery of strategy, customer insights, analytics, and transformation enablement capabilities in New Zealand, partnering across Woolworths to ensure that these capabilities are deployed to drive transformation and support key objectives. This includes partnering with WIQ (Woolworths’ data and analytics arm) to drive data-driven transformation in New Zealand.

This role will also be accountable for driving growth and profit in our key Accelerator Businesses, including P&L accountability for our FreshChoice franchise banner, New Zealand Grocery Wholesalers, and support and enable our retail media business Cartology across NZ.

What You Will Do

• Drive end-to-end transformation of the Woolworths New Zealand business across a 3 year horizon, from strategy creation through to delivery orchestration. Lead strategy development for New Zealand, partnering with Group Strategy and Finance to lead annual strategic and 3-year planning processes and secure Board endorsement
• Design, frame up and mobilise key strategic programs and transformation initiatives, partnering with the Group Transformation platform and the New Zealand Leadership team
• Drive delivery of the overall transformation agenda, managing capacity and synchronisation, and ensuring benefits realisation
• Lead the delivery of customer insights, strategy, analytics and transformation enablement capabilities into the New Zealand business to drive transformation, partnering with Group platforms to deploy these in areas of maximum value. This includes partnering with WIQ (Woolworths’ market-leading data and analytics arm) to drive data-driven transformation
• Lead our key Accelerator Businesses, including P&L accountability for our FreshChoice franchise banner, New Zealand Grocery Wholesalers, and support the success of Cartology NZ, in partnership with the relevant business leaders
• Integrated with Group Strategy Platform, set the overall process (guidelines, timelines etc) for the annual strategy review to meet Board deadlines
• Lead the development of the annual WWNZ strategy update and work with Finance to develop 3 year plan for Board approval aligned with the Group strategy
• Play an instrumental role in driving collaboration and alignment across the Woolworths Group to drive better business outcomes, and lead the delivery of actions based on customer driven insights

What You Will Bring

• Exceptional stakeholder engagement; ability to manage multiple and diverse stakeholder needs, influencing and aligning senior leaders to drive the transformation agenda. Has developed an ease in senior forums and reporting to Boards and sub-committees
• Leadership experience of large teams including significant P&L management to drive growth and performance
• Demonstrated experience in leading E2E large scale business transformations due to industry disruption and/or strategic shifts
• Demonstrated experience of leading transformation at scale to drive growth and performance and deliver results through others in a matrixed organisation of similar size and scale.
• An ability to drive sustainable change. Shapes a compelling change story and inspires change readiness in others. Proactively manages resistance, uncertainty, and ambiguity to navigate disruption and lead change
• Delivers end-to-end. Sets expectations for team of working end-to-end; unblocks & facilitates connections and collaboration across the business
• Agile & growth-oriented. Embraces challenges and adapts rapidly to change. Creates the conditions for teams to shift to agile operating models and/or to have agile mindsets.
• Retail expert with strong understanding of bricks & mortar and/or digital retail businesses Knows the broader retail context and is able to contextualise that as relevant

What’s In It For You

• A competitive executive level remuneration package including, base, kiwisaver, car allowance, short term incentive and LTI
• Opportunity to work and collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in ANZ
• An exciting career – as our business grows, so do the opportunities for our people
• Flexibility and work-life balance policies that will help you thrive

Grow with the Group

As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.

We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference.

We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing.

We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most importantly, we’re all about creating better experiences – for our customers and for each other.

We’d love to hear from You

If you meet a number of the requirements, but not all, we encourage you to submit your application. You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or via www.wowcareers.com.au. #LI #work180.

Our Talent Acquisition Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Woolworths Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.