State Transport Optimisation Manager

**Calling all Transport Optimisation Superstars
- **Permanent opportunity, based at Minchinbury**:

- **An attractive remuneration package + Tool of Trade**:

- **Join Australia's largest Retail Supply Chain**:

- **Have the ability to shape the network
**About Us**
In October 2020, Woolworths Group Supply Chain rebranded to become Primary Connect - an end-to-end supply chain partner within Woolworths Group. Our team of more than 8,000 continues to support our Woolworths, BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Countdown, and BIG W stores across the country, providing them with our customers’ favourite food, drink, and everyday needs items.

Becoming Primary Connect gives us the opportunity to keep growing so we can become the next generation supply chain whilst remaining an essential part of Woolworths Group. There has never been a more exciting time to join our team.

**The Opportunity**
This role is overall responsible for the delivery of the Transport Optimisation function for the State to provide cost, efficiency, and service benefits to the target.

**Key Duties include**
- Managing the delivery of the Optimisation function for the State to provide cost, efficiency, and service benefits to the target
- Managing and providing input into State Store Delivery reporting and insights (ie identify reports and insights and manage to have these insights delivered)
- Executing the national projects and efficiencies and co-ordination of standardisation of processes (eg fleet utilisation, visibility, 2/3 pallets, d-pallets, etc)
- Completing costing of alternative network options on the Store Delivery function
- Modelling optimising processes nationally with an end-to-end viewpoint

**Our people**
Woolworths people are great people. Whether we’re learning new things, seizing the initiative, or winning together our customers are at the heart of everything we do. If you’re the sort of individual who takes accountability and strives to always do the right thing for each other, our communities, our customers, and our business then we ought to connect. Together with demonstrated success in a similar role and your ability to influence, we are seeking the following skills and experience:
**About you**
- We’re seeking the following skills and experience:

- Have extensive experience in transport, commercial structures, and modelling
- Have extensive experience in / Logistics / Supply Chain / 3PL / Fleet Management
- Demonstrated success in influencing and leadership of change projects with multiple stakeholders
- A high level of communication and interpersonal skills, including excellent conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
- Strong people management skills with the ability to motivate and inspire internal and external stakeholders
- Strong analytical capability, combined with a passion for continuous improvement
- Commercially astute and capable in both business financials and transport commercials and contracts

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

- An attractive remuneration package + Tool of Trade
- Team member discounts at all of Woolworths businesses
- Take the next step in your career
- The opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia across our brands
- 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 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
Our Talent Acquisition Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Woolworths Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.