Manager - Gnfr Supplier Management

**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.

**Overview
We are looking for an experienced Manager to join a dynamic programme team of experienced Program and Transformation Consultants for a 12 month FTC. The Programme team's focus is to support the operational functions of the Woolworths Group Portfolio, to deliver the GNFR Supplier Management Framework.

We are looking for individuals with prior or current consulting / Supplier Management experience with demonstrable leadership skills who are able to form part of a high performing team. This role is for an individual wishing for a new consulting challenge within a successful corporate leader that can offer significant career progression and competitive rewards for high performers. The role will utilise your creativity and will leverage your operational expertise to drive successful business outcomes for key strategic programmes of work.

We are keen to develop a diverse team of individuals who see flexibility as a given and not a bonus and wish to hear from both full timers and those who may require part time or flexible working options to re-enter and stay within the workforce.

**About Us
We are an enterprise-wide, C-suite sponsored program team built to drive value and operational excellence throughout the Business Units through a consulting style service that leverages a strong program structure and provides both leading practice insights / thought leadership and delivery excellence to our business partners.

Our mandate is to partner with each of our Business Units across the group portfolio to identify and develop high quality operational excellence or cost optimisation plans and projects, within the Goods & Services Not for Resale space. We collaborate with each Business Unit to target and prioritise the areas that represent the most significant improvement in their cost of doing business and therefore directly contribute to the bottom line of the company.

**About the Role
- Workstream lead or Subject Matter Expert within a high performing pyramid structure aligned to the Supplier Managment Framework role out
- Support, Develop and utilise Programme Governance and Reporting structures to expedite issue resolution and decision making and drive the overall accomplishment of your workstream
- Own, craft and shape the storyboard of your workstream throughout its lifecycle to resonate across the complex stakeholder group and cover the multi-faceted needs of the organisation
- Build credibility and be a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across the Business Units.
- Be challenged in a key role where you will make a visible impact on the success of the Woolworths Group and manage C-Suite / senior stakeholder relationships.
- Flexible options including part time and home working for the right individual.

The role will utilise your Supplier Management expertise and will leverage strong stakeholder management skills as key relationships with senior business leaders are developed. Support, collaborate and upskill your team members and leverage their unique and individual capabilities to drive the optimal outcomes for the Woolworths Group.

The individual will play a consultative / trusted advisor role to the Business Units and will support and empower them through their change journey as the program develops and deploys. The role will work with the PMO function to support project management and the development of strategic plans to drive the timely accomplishment of work streams / programmes. This role will directly contribute to the success of one of the most visible C-suite sponsored strategic programs within Woolworths Group and will support the development of a high performing internal consulting capability.

**About You
- Extensive experience within the role out of procurement programs within a large corprate
- Strong end to end project management skills
- Proven experience in managing the whole or parts of an end-to-end multi-million dollar transformation project/s across a large organisation and geography.
- Well developed consulting and problem solving toolkit including analytical and financial modelling skills with a creative mindset that brings clarity to ambiguity.
- Strong track record in delivering quality outcomes, demonstrated ability managing internal and external stakeholders as well as the ability to structure and prioritise project demands.
- Excellent stakeholder management and business partnering skills with demonstra