Program Manager

**About us**:
Endeavour Group was created in 2020 through the restructure and merger of the Woolworths Group drinks and hospitality businesses. With a strong track record of growth, combined these businesses form the leading customer franchise in drinks and hospitality in Australia.

United behind a common purpose of ‘Creating a more sociable future together’, we are a 28,000+ strong team with more than 1600 stores and 330 hotels nationally, including leading brands such as Dan Murphy’s, BWS and ALH Hotels.

Endeavour Group has separated from Woolworths during calendar year 2021 and is well-positioned as an ASX Top 50 Company. Join the team at an exciting time in their evolution

**About the Opportunity**

Reporting to the Group Services Optimisation lead, the Program Manager is responsible for the establishment, development and successful delivery of a portfolio of initiatives across the group
- Initiate, lead and implement end to end business improvement opportunities for a wide range of store and venue optimisation initiatives working across group businesses
- Support the delivery of process change that challenges the cost of doing business, by identifying and valuing opportunities for improvement. This includes effectively collaborating with a broad range of key business stakeholders to support productivity model overlays, and on-going performance convergence relative to budgeted / forecasted metrics.
- Inspire, coach, support and develop supporting project team and business partners on best practices, ensuring that the overall team’s work-plan is delivered, with a pipeline of skills to support future team capability requirements.
- An ability to work in an autonomous and self-paced environment, whilst still being collaborative and seeking help where needed

**A day in the life of a Program Manager**
- Lead the discovery across the business landscape to identify opportunities and develop a pipeline delivered by the program team.
- Successful and sustainable delivery of people, process and system changes across multiple business units and brands
- Manage projects within the program to time, budget and quality
- Manage dependencies and project integration
- Accountable for establishing and delivering business benefits against business cases
- Manage and report on project costs, including expenditure and expected future cost outlay to realise benefits
- Gaining and sustaining confidence of business customers in facilitating decisions that involve inter-functional trade offs and risks
- Managing competing demands of business units without the resources to satisfy all simultaneously
- Identify and proactively manage risks, issues, constraints, assumptions and dependencies
- Expeditious escalation of relevant issues via appropriate stakeholders and governance forums
- Create and execute program plans and evaluate trade-offs between program size, complexity, cost and stakeholder value
- Understand program level dependencies and business impacts to support decisions on prioritisation and sequencing of projects
- Partner with business sponsors to define objectives and key results

**What you’ll need to succeed**
- Experience in establishing Transformation and Business orientated programs of work
- Project Management Certification (Prince 2 / PMP)
- 6 years or more experience in a Project Management role
- Extensive knowledge of project management methodologies and tools
- Led successful and sustainable implementations of transformational and business orientated programs
- Planning, problem solving and analytical skills with the ability to work through issues with complexity and guide others in the resolution of problems
- Graduate, bachelor degree as a minimum
- Strong coaching skills
- Must have or willing to obtain RSA & RCG
- Travel interstate and within state required
- The following would also be highly desirable_
- Trained in Lean Six Sigma Methodology (Green or Black Belt).
- Previous agile/scrum experience
- Demonstrated Leadership experience
- Strong Influencing skills
- Good business acumen and horizontal collaboration capability
- Hospitality and/or Gaming Experience

**What's in it for you?**
- Excellent remuneration package and flexible working in every sense. We value our people
- Everyday Rewards plus card - access exclusive employee discounts across Woolworths, BigW and Endeavour Group brands (BWS, Dan Murphy’s etc) and 50% off food at ALH venues.
- Our innovative ways of working include headspace mornings once a month (no meetings company-wide)
- Opportunity to partner alongside bright minds and genuine investment in leading technologies
- Career progression to help you realise your potential. As our business grows so do the opportunities for our people
- Work with an industry-leading team and be a part of one of the most exciting retail transformations in Australia

**Grow with Endeavour Group**

Bring your spark. Tap into our spirit. That’s the power of Endeavour.

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