Development Manager

**Permanent role, based in Norwest/Surry Hills Offices - Hybrid role**:

- **Support the development of major strategic initiatives as we develop the next generation of Supply Chain for the Australian Food and Everyday needs sectors**:

- **Diverse role, and exposure across the business
**About Us**

In October 2020, Woolworths Group Supply Chain rebranded to become Primary Connect - an end-to-end supply chain partner within Woolworths Group. Our team of more than 8,000 continues to support our Woolworths, BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Countdown, and BIG W stores across the country, providing them with our customers’ favourite food, drink, and everyday needs items.

Becoming Primary Connect gives us the opportunity to keep growing so we can become the next generation supply chain whilst remaining an essential part of Woolworths Group. There has never been a more exciting time to join our team.

**The Opportunity**

As the Development Manager - Strategic Initiatives, you will work with the Head of Strategy Development and Partnerships to provide support, analysis, and development of major initiatives that will drive the next phase of growth

With some ambitious but achievable growth plans, this role will be pivotal to the success of delivering the next generation of food and everyday needs supply chain in Australia.

**The Role**

You will be involved in everything from initiative development, analysis, business modelling and presentation of insights. This role will see you work across all areas of Primary Connect and our Group Retail Ecosystem, with key responsibilities including:

- Ideation of strategic & commercial opportunities
- Create modelling that accurately represents current and alternative strategic options
- Deliver business cases that are accurate, well documented and clearly presented
- Present and communicate meaningful results, recommendations and commentary to appropriate stakeholders
- Develop commercial and operational constructs for new business models taking account of risk and reward elements, asset ownership, rate structures, systems and organisation structure requirements
- Ability to generate clear and concise strategy and analysis presentation material with clear narrative and structure to gain consensus and support for initiatives and changes
- Ability to work independently to generate deliverables and manage time to meet required deadlines

**About you**

In order to be successful in this exciting opportunity we are looking for the following skills and experience:

- Previous supply chain development or optimisation experience
- Previous experience in an analyst role
- Strong financial acumen and understanding
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Be a Strategic thinker with an ability to balance short term and long term outcomes
- Be a problem solver

**Why you’ll love it here**

In addition to this exciting role, these are some of the benefits we offer:

- An attractive remuneration package
- Team member discounts at all of Woolworths businesses
- Opportunity for career defining work and professional development
- The opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia across our brands
- An exciting career - as our business grows, so do the opportunities for our people

**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.