Group Product Manager

**Group Product Manager**
- Join an iconic Australian brand as Group Product Manager
- Permanent role within a truly flexible team
- Lead a team of high-performing Product Managers

**About WooliesX**
At WooliesX, we’re here to create better everyday experiences for our customers. In the big picture, and the fine detail. In moments big and small. We’re an innovation business that brings together the brightest minds in e-commerce, technology, media and data to transform the way people live and shop. The success of our entire business is because of our people. Diversity is our strength, through the potential we unlock together. We’re resourceful and open-minded, welcoming and willing to experiment. We encourage fresh ideas and help each other be better by providing ongoing career opportunities to grow and evolve. It’s how we bring the future to life for our customers and our people, in everyday moments that matter.

**About the Role**
The Group Product Manager role requires a dual focus. A focus on driving business outcomes and a focus on growing the capabilities of your direct reports.

As a Product leader within the Woolies X, you will own a Product portfolio, building capabilities that can be leveraged across the WooliesX ecosystem. You will be responsible for thought leadership and alignment of the future vision and product portfolio strategies with Tribe and business leads, influencing and generating movement across new processes through change management, reflecting and influencing decisions to ensure teams are set up for long-term success. You will partner with your team of Product Managers to assist them across the complex matrix interfacing across the wider Woolies ecosystem.

As a Product Chapter Lead in the Ecosystem capabilities principle chapter, you will lead a team of passionate empowered Product Managers and be responsible for growing and developing world-class Product Management capability within your Chapter with a focus on shared services across the entire Woolworths group.

You will:

- Partner with business leaders to conceive and communicate the Product Vision and create the underlying Product strategies that support the delivery of that Vision
- Lead product managers in working closely with their squads and with squads across WooliesX to discover, design, develop and optimise product capabilities that enable exceptional experiences for our customers
- Stay ahead of the changes in the business and the market, reflect and offer new insights and advice to ensure your teams have the knowledge and information to make critical day-to-day decisions
- Make judgement calls and investment tradeoffs when the team is having difficulties prioritising
- Bring a big picture view to every product strategy - ensuring we are delivering for short-term business needs, but with a long-term view

Along with leading over-arching product strategy and delivery, this role is importantly a coach for their Chapter and an active participant in building the Product Practice. This includes:

- Recruiting, onboarding, coaching and growing the capabilities of direct reports so they are engaged and empowered in their role and have a clear career path at WooliesX
- Being responsible for the well-being of your team, supporting and guiding them across the complex WooliesX ecosystem so that they can deliver long term success
- Driving “Chapter Time” programs specific to people’s personal and professional development
- Supporting the GM of Product and Head of Product in designing and leading a world class Product Management Practice

This is an exciting opportunity for a strong people leader looking to drive change and impact for our customers and business.

**Responsibilities**
- Thought leader and domain expert for their delivery portfolio.
- Removes impediments from delivery of the Chapter function.
- Defines strategic vision and direction for their product suite, partnering with the Tribe lead to ensure the product strategy aligns with their business strategy.
- Evangelist for the Product Practice and Chapter across the business.
- Manages the team within their Chapter, recruiting, onboarding, developing careers and coaching world-class product talent with a focus on improving overall team performance.
- Ensures their team has the right tools and processes in place to do their best work every day, delivering on value to the customer and outcomes for the business.
- Develops Chapter standards and procedures, leads Chapter events.
- Fosters and maintains key relationships with leaders within the Tribe and across WooliesX to ensure we are building capabilities that scale, and providing transparency and alignment around key priorities.
- Supports other Chapter Leads in the execution of their own responsibilities and accountabilities with a focus on cross chapter collaboration.
- Consults on new business initiatives partnering with business and technology leads
- Communicates to senior leadership and broader Woo