Program Manager

**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.

**The opportunity**

The Program Manager is responsible for providing leadership and accountability for the effective completion of a portfolio of numerous large-scale Supply Chain programs and projects for Primary Connect’s distribution centres across the country.

The Program Manager will collaborate closely with the business, project teams, and IT while building strong collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and partners.

This role will lead a Strategic and Operational Cost Reduction Program across Australia’s largest retail supply chain. Strong program management abilities will be needed for the position in order to create, approve, and implement operational plans that will accelerate the timely implementation of cost-cutting initiatives.

**About you**

This is an exciting position for a concise and forward-thinking leader. You are a strategic thinker and engaging leader with an empowering style that is supportive and involves a wide circle of people across the organisation, where you are required to drive and influence change.

As Program Manager, you will have a cross-functional understanding of the Woolworths Group businesses or a similarly complex environment.

You will actively participate in the planning, developing, and implementing of a broad range of new initiatives that support our distribution centres and efficient transport deliveries to meet our customer needs.

Furthermore, you will sponsor and lead change initiatives within the DC, including partnering with support functions throughout Primary Connect and other business units in the Woolworths Group

- Strong end-to-end project and program management skills
- Experience working within a complex, matrixed organisation
- Excellent commercial judgement and an ability to prioritise, influence, and make value-creating decisions
- Strategic thinking with the ability to curate innovative ways of working
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills to deliver win-win outcomes for the wider organisation
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including storyboarding of the project and presentation skills
- Leadership skills with the ability to influence and engage others
- Ability to provide insight on results to assist senior leaders in driving outcomes
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to solve complex business problems
- Ability to be self-motivated and self-directed to structure and manage workloads
- Detailed planning around project and program delivery and governance

**What’s in it for you?
- Join Australia’s largest retail supply chain, where there is ample opportunity to develop and grow your career
- Having a career with us means you are joining one of LinkedIn’s Top 25 Companies Australia 2021
- Ability to bring your whole self to work and access well-being benefits that centre on your mental, financial, social, physical, and community health
- Our team believes in building partnerships through collaboration, transparency, and trust
- Team benefits include access to discounts in our supermarkets and liquor partners, novated leases, share purchase plans, reduced insurance products, entertainment, theme parks, cinemas, lifestyle and other attraction discounts

**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. #LI #w180

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