Transformation & Strategy Manager

**Innovative space to design the future of Supermarkets and Retail**:

- **A diverse role, with exposure across the business**:

- **Full-time permanent opportunity, open to location
**About Us**
The Woolworths Format Development Team are a national team of 1,000, responsible for innovating and developing future retail stores across supermarkets, Metro & Big W. We implement designs by creating experience-centric technology-led retail store formats that are purpose-built for our customers and teams. We innovate by focusing on Continuous Improvement, sustainable energy management, technology, and working with our suppliers, service providers and operations teams to move towards a healthier planet.

At Woolies, we’re about creating customer and team-first experiences. To enable this, the Smart & Simpler Program is focused on transforming through technology, equipment or process optimisation to deliver consistent in-store processes and better, safer experiences for our customers and team members.

**The Role**

Due to an internal move, we’re now looking for a Transformation & Strategy Manager to bring their storytelling and problem-solving to influence and communicate transformation to the business working within an agile squad with members from across the business, responsible for;
- Injecting creative and innovative thinking to design and implement our stores future blueprints
- Provide active thought leadership and challenge on strategic opportunities to transform stores based on evidence and insights
- Developing and communicating clear recommendations and influencing stakeholders
- Using your quantitative problem-solving and analytical capabilities to develop the fact bases that will inform decision-making for our future transformation
- Extracting insights from complex analysis
- Coaching and mentoring our more junior team members

**Who we’re looking for**

We’re looking for a creative thinker who thrives on challenging the status quo and asking why. You’ll be comfortable dealing with ambiguity and demonstrate strong integrity and credibility. In addition, you’ll also demonstrate;
- 4+ years of experience within a strategy consultancy, or corporate strategy team
- Superb written and oral communication with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence at all levels of the organisation
- Demonstrated deep experience and knowledge of strategic problem solving and frameworks
- Experience in project and change management, or innovation and transformation in a customer-facing business
- Exceptional customer & stakeholder engagement skills with demonstrated ability to influence & gain credibility with senior stakeholders and project teams
- Analytics and quantitative modelling
- Ability to coach and develop junior team members

Demonstrating the following skills will also be highly desirable;
- Good understanding of customer-facing businesses (Retail, food business, telco)
- Agile mindset and process experience (Scrum)

**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.