Rt3 Forecast Lead

**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.

**About WooliesX
**At WooliesX, our people believe in creating better everyday experiences for our community.
**With 1,800+ team members, multiple practices and over 100 chapters, there’s a home for everyone here. Whether your interests lie in data driven insights and product engineering, digital media, ecom, operations, customer advocacy, commercial, agile or more, you can find your squad across all kinds of capabilities.
**Our squads live their “one day”, every day. We work on Australia’s most innovative tech, design, engineering and more to transform the way that millions of Australians live and shop.
**Our culture combines the support, care and freedom that comes with being part of the Woolworths Group. We are an agile team embracing diversity of thought and positive change. We thrive on pragmatism, mutual respect, care, curiosity, openness, and a proactive attitude. As a team we continually seek ways to support and learn from each other.
**The Role
**In this role you will be part of an exciting project supporting the development and deployment of our new enterprise workforce management solution where you will manage and develop productivity labour standards and the budgeted end to end impacts of those standards.
**Key responsibilities will be:
- **Ensuring productivity labour standards accurately reflect current business process maps, and are updated as change is validated and deployed**
- **Undertaking productivity measurement and analysis in stores, through understanding and evaluating processes and tasks.**
- **Working with external suppliers to develop new labour standards and keeping productivity databases aligned through on-going enhancements**
- **Ensuring that productivity wage budgets reconcile with labour standards, and support effective rostering in stores**
- **Identifying and supporting process improvement opportunities that reduce the cost of doing business within a range of productivity targets, through engaging and working with key Business Process Owners**
- **Building strong collaborative relationships with key stakeholders across the business**
- **Coaching and development of Productivity Analysts supporting growth of team skills**
- **Identifying underlying performance opportunities that are a risk to delivery of wage budgets
**Who we’re looking for
- **Experience in Project Management, productivity or analysis roles**
- **Experience in Retail or customer service sector business experience**
- **A technical and analytically focused mindset**
- **An interest in productivity and developing further knowledge in a specialist area**
- **Strong communication, influencing and engagement skills for interactions with both internal and external stakeholders**
- **Tertiary education qualification in mathematics, statistics, business or equivalent experience**
- **Intermediate working knowledge of MS Excel.**
- **An understanding of time and attendance and workforce management systems.**
- **An ability to understand and effectively interpret Enterprise Agreements and Awards.**
- **Strong planning and organisational skills with ability to work independently, and across video conferencing as**

**appropriate.**
- **Flexibility to travel interstate and within state as required.**
- **Advantageous to have Lean Six Sigma Methodology, Kronos, Google cloud Platform or Tableau experience
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**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 fo