Transformation & Strategy 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.

**Smarter Stores Transformation Manager
- **Innovative space to design the future of Supermarkets and Retail**:

- **A diverse role, with exposure across the business**:

- **Open to location**:

- **6 month fixed term
**About Woolworths 360
The Woolworths 360 Team is a national team of 1,000, responsible for innovating and developing retail stores of the future across supermarkets, Metro & Big W. We’re construction people, facilities and asset management people. We’re planning & commercial people. We’re architects and sustainability people. We’re data analysts, refrigeration and air conditioning people. We are operations and training people. Together, we’re doing our part to bring fresh food and great experiences to our customers every day.

We implement designs by creating experience-centric technology-led, retail store formats that are purpose-built for our customers and teams. We innovate by focusing on Continuous Improvement, sustainable energy management, technology, and working with our suppliers, service providers and operations teams to move towards a healthier planet. We maintain all aspects of our supermarkets' stores through having highly specialised, skilled team members across all trades. Every decision we make is designed with our customers and teams at the heart.

**About the role**

Due to an internal move, we’re now looking for a Transformation Manager with strategy experience to bring their storytelling and problem-solving to influence and communicate transformation to the business working within an agile squad with members from across the business, responsible for;
- Injecting creative and innovative thinking to design and implement our stores future blueprints
- Provide active thought leadership and challenge on strategic opportunities to transform stores based on evidence and insights
- Developing and communicating clear recommendations and influencing stakeholders
- Using your quantitative problem-solving and analytical capabilities to develop the fact bases that will inform decision-making for our future transformation
- Extracting insights from complex analysis
- Coaching and mentoring our more junior team members

**Who we’re looking for
**We’re looking for a strategic thinker who thrives on challenging the status quo and asking why. You’ll be comfortable dealing with ambiguity and demonstrate strong integrity and credibility.

In addition, you’ll also demonstrate;
- 5+ years of experience within a strategy consultancy, or corporate strategy team
- Superb written and oral communication with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence at all levels of the organisation
- Demonstrated deep experience and knowledge of strategic problem solving and frameworks
- Experience in project and change management, or innovation and transformation in a customer-facing business
- Exceptional customer & stakeholder engagement skills with demonstrated ability to influence & gain credibility with senior stakeholders and project teams
- Analytics and quantitative modelling
- Ability to coach and develop junior team members

**Why you’ll love it here
In addition to this exciting role, these are some of the benefits we offer:

- An attractive remuneration package including base + super + Tool of Trade (laptop, phone)
- Team member discounts at all of Woolworths businesses
- Opportunity to impact the future of stores across the banners
- Flexible work arrangements
- An exciting career - as our business grows, so do the opportunities for our people

**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