Head of Governance, Risk

3 weeks ago


Bella Vista, Australia Woolworths Full time

**About Woolworths Group**

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.

**Who we are
**Woolworths Food Company (WFC) is a holistic B2B platform business, the own brand supplier and a manufacturer to our retail brands (Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown Supermarkets and Metro Stores). WFC also supports and grows our non-retail and B2B channels, in Foodservice and Wholesale & International.

Daily, we deliver on our purpose - “Together we innovate to create distinctive products and brands that customers love.”

**The role
**The Head of Governance, Risk & Technology in Woolworths Food Company leads a core squad within the Woolworths Food Company to deliver sourcing training through a Sourcing Academy, building governance, playbooks and processes for tendering, direct negotiations and value chain engineering projects and working across the group to continue development of systems and technology to support the chapter.

In this role you will build and refine the Sourcing Academy for the Sourcing Chapter and engage consistently with our WFC & Commercial team to build sourcing systems & processes, templates and training to unlock efficiency and bring an improved delivery to our business partners.

**What you will do**

Some of your key responsibilities will be to:

- Design and lead the sourcing plan for Tribe and Agile delivery
- Demonstrate horizontal leadership and stakeholder engagement to manage key stakeholders across the Australian Food Group
- Provide governance and compliance through capability to develop the commercial elements of supply contracts including specification, price review mechanism, delivery & tenure in consultation with the legal team
- Provide risk mitigation through monitoring existing business and supply base. Proactively mitigate risks through dual supply and fully integrated supply strategies to support sales growth and sales during crises
- Work collaboratively across key stakeholder groups (WFC,Commercial, Wholesale, Export & wider ecosystem) to deliver to the Own Brand sourcing plan and broader strategic initiatives
- Support prioritisation and phasing of the Agile transformation

**Who you are
**To be successful in this role you will bring:

- Solid experience in transformational governance and process in sourcing teams to deliver value.
- Demonstrated leadership skills and capabilities - leading, coaching, developing teams
- Display evidence of passion for food and its source of origin. Love of food, geographies of where it is grown and awareness of food trends. We love to bring our passion to life across all aspects of our business and for our customers
- You will bring strategic and commercial thinking, commercial insight and a growth mindset
- It is preferred that you demonstrate a minimum of 8+ years professional experience - with experience in Retail or FMCG fast-paced working environment

**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
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.



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