Workforce Planning Lead

6 months ago


Bella Vista, Australia Supply Chain Full time

Lead the onsite implementation and ongoing championing of our Workforce Planning system
- Extensive Travel across Australia and New Zealand, with flexible working options when not on-site
- Ths role can be based out of most captial cities of Australia Attractive salary and benefits package on offer

Endless possibilities with Woolworths Group

We're a proud part of the Woolworths Group - 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives working together connected by a shared Purpose - ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.'
Here you'll be supported and empowered to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week. Backed by a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and the support to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

Welcome to Primary Connect

Primary Connect is the most extensive food and retail supply chain network in Australia and New Zealand. Our 10,000-strong team are an essential part of the expansive Woolworths Group, which encompasses Woolworths Supermarkets and Metro stores, BIG W, Countdown NZ, Quantium, and more. With us, your possibilities are not limited to a single opportunity.
We're delivering to more than 3,000 retail stores every day (stores like Woolworths, BIG W, Dan Murphy's, and BWS), but at Primary Connect, we're more than just a supply chain business. We're a big team, but every individual plays a pivotal role and leaves a distinctive impact.

What you'll do

As the Workforce Planning Lead you will provide knowledge within the domain of labour planning and subsequent day-of-operations, team member roster management. Centre to this will be your ability to Lead the championing of the needs of Operations through requirements gathering, solution development, testing, delivery and support for system implementation at our Distribution Centres across Australia and New Zealand.

Once we’ve got you up to speed, you’ll be responsible for:

- Travelling to our various DC’s across Australia and New Zealand to support the solution implementations
- Supporting ‘Understanding the Change’ through impact assessments, knowledge sharing and uncovering business readiness activities, and on site coaching
- Developing and facilitating User Acceptance Testing aligned to detailed design requirements for execution in Defect and Hotfix testing
- Be part of the team who develop ‘Site Champions’ and End User Training and ensure the systems continue to run as intended by troubleshooting and resolving issues Continuing to learn and understand current ways of working in labour planning and DC operations, and challenge the ‘norm’ to translate requirements into future ways of working and continuous improvement

What you will bring

We'd like to hear from you if you have an operational, labour planning, or systems management background in a senior capacity, are a keen troubleshooter with a "can-do" attitude, great with people, and you thrive on being part of a high performing team.
You’ll need to be able to travel extensively across Australia and New Zealand, have an interest in developing your expertise within Workforce Planniing, as well as having a passion for helping people understand the system.
- Ability to understand technical issues and communicate problems and solutions to a non-technical stakeholder group
- Ability to build effective working relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders from cross functional teams Demonstrated experience in fundamental change management

What you'll experience

Everything we do is driven by a culture of care for our team, customers, and community.
- We create a thriving team experience through a culture of belonging that champions safety and wellbeing for our people and partners.
- Career development opportunities: A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline - with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
- We offer team member discounts across all Woolworths Group and partner businesses, access to discounts in novated leases, share purchase plans, lifestyle and other attraction discounts
- Generous parental leave policy, with 4 weeks paid leave for all secondary carers, and all permanent full and part-time roles can access Parental Leave from their first day We are open and encourage conversations regarding flexible arrangements to make the next step viable for all our team intrigued by this role. Does part-time or job-sharing work better for your lifestyle? Please let us know, and we are happy to discuss this further with you & our team.

We're recognised as a great employer:
Woolworths Group 2nd in LinkedIn's Top 25 Companies Australia 2022
WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality
Work180 Endorsed Employer for all women
Australian Workplace Equa



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