Strategy Development Partner

**Title**:Strategy Development Partner**:

- Location: Bentleigh East, Victoria, AU**About us**:
At Officeworks we make bigger things happen. Our customers, our team, and our community are our heart and soul. And if our brilliant people have taught us anything, it is that we can do all kinds of incredible things, each and every day.

Fast paced. Innovative. Inspiring. With more than 8000 team members and a national footprint of more than 168 retail stores Australia wide - we’re focused on delivering a wide range, low price and great service. We’re about inspiring new ideas and thinking outside the box. We’re about kicking goals, having a laugh and pushing each other. We are about being rewarded and supported. We’re about teaching a customer something new and supporting the community. We’re about making a difference.

**About the role**:
Officeworks is currently working through the delivery of an ambitious and customer
- centric growth strategy in tandem with delivery of a robust productivity agenda.

Promotion within our Strategy Development team has created an opportunity for an experienced Strategy Development Partner, engaging across the business to support the development, iteration and communication of both Officeworks’ enterprise level and functional strategies.

The role will have a focus on both supporting the corporate plan process and cross functional Strategy Development. We are looking for an outstanding and articulate communicator with exceptional written and verbal skills combined with strong financial and commercial acumen.

With a curious and solutions-oriented mindset, this key team position will conduct both internal and external analysis to assist the OLT with defining our continued growth and productivity positioning.

Key activities include:

- Support the preparation of the corporate plan
- Contribute to the development and facilitate strategy ideation, formulation, and development workshops at a corporate level
- Prepare, deliver and regularly update internal and external business environment analysis to better inform strategic decision making
- Lead analysis to support recommendations of strategic choices
- Prepare key strategic documents such as: external analyst briefings, Strategy Day Presentations, Wesfarmers Planning Conference and other external reports
- Create and execute collateral to communicate the strategic direction of Officeworks (internal and external)

**About you**:
Tertiary qualified with a Bachelor degree or MBA, you will leverage your 5+ years’ experience from a consulting / professional services, or in-house strategy environment. Knowledge of and exposure to the retail sector is preferred with demonstrable experience in the development of customer centric strategies for growth and productivity.

An exceptional communicator, your style is adaptable to all levels within an organisation with ability to influence and inspire. An exceptional problem solver, you can take your stakeholders on a journey to achieve their strategic vision and plans. You enjoy cross-functional engagement in a complex stakeholder environment to work solutions and drive meaningful, customer-centric outcomes.

Commercially and financially astute, you enjoy the preparation of formal business documents and presentations to board level reporting and investor briefings. With established experience in the preparation of formal business documentation and presentations, you are comfortable in ambiguous, changing environments.

**Our culture**:
It’s all in a day’s work when you’re part of the Officeworks community - where you’re not defined by who you are, but what you can do. We celebrate our teams’ uniqueness by offering the below to the Officeworks family:

- An inclusive, diverse, and supportive environment.
- Flexible working arrangements to best support your individual needs.
- A key focus on wellbeing and safety.
- Generous discounts at Officeworks, Bunnings, Kmart, Target and Catch.
- Ongoing training and development opportunities to progress your career.
- Industry leading Growing Families policy and access to Circle In portal for Working Families.

Officeworks is a** ‘Circle Back Initiative’ **employer - we commit to respond to every applicant.