Woolworths Group Looking for Head of Analytics Transformation at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Full Time

Flexible, hybrid working environment

About Us

Woolworths Group is Australia and New Zealand’s largest retailer covering Australian food and everyday needs employing 190,000 team members across Asia Pacific, serving over 20 million customers across our brands every week. With more than 1,400 stores across Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown Supermarkets (New Zealand) and BIG W brands, B2B business serving wholesale and export markets, and a range of fast-growing eCommerce businesses.

Our purpose is to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow for our customers and team. By partnering with Quantium, a world-class data science and advanced analytics business we’re excited about the future as we unlock the power of data to reimagine retail.

Through this partnership, we’ve created a new business called Wiq, that will harness the best of Woolworths Group and Quantium to reimagine retail by solving the most complex problems using data and analytics. As a team, we leverage Agile ways of working to help our team develop their skills while also making sure our team is focusing on solving the most complex problems for both our customers and team.

About The Role

As a Head of Analytics Transformation, you will play a key role in shaping the Advanced Analytics strategy and roadmap within an assigned domain such as Digital, Customer, Commercial, Value Chain & Operations. In this role, you will also work cross-functionally to align on advanced analytics use cases, supporting the formation of cross-functional squads and play a key role in the delivery of products and platforms. You will also work cross-functionally, acting as a subject matter expert to our other high performing Practices and supporting the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) across the group through relevant, impactful data.

As Data and Advanced Analytics continues to rapidly grow in its potential and benefits, in this role you will both guide, contribute and be exposed to emerging technologies and innovations delivering impact and better experiences for millions of customers and our teams.

Responsibilities Will Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Creating the end-to-end analytics strategy, roadmap, and priorities that will ensure an insights focused cultural and capability shift
• Partnering with business stakeholders to ensure strong engagement and understanding of key strategic priorities, roadmap, benefits and financials
• Prioritising work and allocating resources in line with strategic priorities
• Steer requirements gathering, and ensuring the appropriate squad is formed with the relevant skills across Product, Delivery, Analytics and Engineering to deliver
• Promoting the use of data, analytics and insights as means to solve customer, team and business problems
• Proactively engaging business partners and stakeholders to identify future opportunities, leveraging strategic frameworks to shape the problem statement and size the benefits
• Ability to engage, present and communicate effectively to a broad range of Woolworths Group stakeholders, including C-suite executives through to management
• Establishing and driving Analytics chapter growth plans, cross-skilling approach, chapter cadences (e.g. showcases, knowledge share sessions) and building effective ways of working (accountable and transparent)
• Establishing standards and best practices including digital and customer performance frameworks, operational performance diagnostic methodologies, fulfilment network strategies, test & learn frameworks, establish and enable commercial assessment framework, and large scale investment decision support

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience in being responsible for transformation programs, knowledge of shaping and delivering analytics capability in large organisation/s, across diverse industries preferrably associated to Retail
• Track record in delivering strategic business outcomes and guiding innovation within analytics while fostering a warm, friendly and down-to-earth culture
• Outstanding influencing and business partnering skills including the ability to seamlessly navigate diverse stakeholder environments across digital, marketing, merchandising, operations and strategy
• Ability to influence with a passion for enabling and developing a team and establishing an environment conducive to personal and professional growth
• Tertiary qualification in a related discipline. Postgraduate qualifications like an MBA are desirable

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 follow us on LinkedIn or see more opportunities via www.wowcareers.com.au. #work180