Learning Partner

We’ve been trusted to serve Aussie communities since 1914 and grown to become a top 30-listed on the ASX with over 115,000 team members and a portfolio of iconic brands. At Coles Group, you’ll not only get to make a difference to millions of Aussie lives—you’ll also get to see your impact.

About the team

People and Culture are dedicated to fostering an engaged and empowered workplace. One that’s strong, diverse and where our team members have exciting career pathways to choose from. We do it by making people’s lives easier through better experiences, useful tools, and by providing ongoing opportunities to learn and grow.

We’re on an exciting path to transform how our team operates: moving away from legacy systems and processes to a future of simplified workflows, and data-driven decision-making. To support this transformation, we’re looking for a Learning Partner to design and deliver initiatives that uplift the skills, mindset, and capabilities of our finance professionals.

About the role - 12-month fixed term

As the Learning Partner in our Capability Team, you’ll play a critical role in developing and embedding our new Finance Capability Framework and ensuring our people are ready for the future state of finance. You’ll partner with the Finance Transformation Team, General Managers, and the Centre of Excellence (CoE) to develop targeted learning programs that enable the team to work more strategically - leveraging data tools, self-service reporting, and streamlined processes.

You’ll also contribute to initiatives such as the Finance Academy and our mini MBA for finance professionals, ensuring alignment to workforce strategy and our four key capability pillars.

What you’ll be doing:

- Capability Uplift: Lead the design and roll-out of a tailored capability framework that sets clear role expectations and defines ‘what great looks like’ in the future state of finance.
- Learning Solutions: Design, source, and deliver learning programs that enable finance professionals to embrace new systems, tools, and ways of working.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with senior leaders, Finance GMs, external providers and our CoE to align capability initiatives with the overall transformation strategy.
- Future-focused Finance: Support the shift from traditional to strategic business partnering, enabling finance teams to utilise self-service data and analytics tools.

Ideally you have:

- A commercial mindset and a background (or strong understanding) of finance, commerce, or accounting environments.
- Experience building and embedding capability frameworks and learning strategies in complex, matrix-style organisations.
- Understanding of change management and agile methodologies, with the ability to drive cultural and behavioural shifts.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience engaging senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
- Knowledge of learning design principles (experience creating or curating learning content will be highly regarded).
- Passion for enabling people to succeed in a transformative and technology-driven environment.

You’ll be part of a large-scale transformation that’s shaping the future of finance at Coles. This role offers the opportunity to:

- Make a tangible impact on how our finance teams operate and deliver value.
- Work alongside senior leaders and experts driving change at scale.
- Collaborate within a high-performing, future-focused Capability Team.

If you’re a commercially minded learning professional who thrives in complex transformations and wants to help build the finance team of tomorrow, we’d love to hear from you.

What’s in it for you?
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Flexible working options**:We know that work is only one part of your life, so we actively encourage a positive work-life balance and provide hybrid working options to help you achieve it.
- ** Office perks**: Take advantage of our gym facility and fitness classes, free parking, BBQ area, mini-Coles supermarket, fooderie hub where you can sample new products before they hit the shelves, school holiday program and so much more when you come in.
- ** Discounts**:Eligible team members receive 5% discount all year round on your Supermarket and Liquor online and in-store purchases. We also offer additional periods of double discount (10%) at various times throughout the year. As well as hotdeals exclusive to team members that translate into additional savings.
- ** Reward through recognition**: Give and receive recognition, linked to our Coles values, through our digital recognition platform ‘mythanks’. You can accumulate points to redeem in the online shop for exciting gifts and electronic gift cards from an extensive range of retailers.
- ** Opportunities for learning and development**: No matter where you start within our diverse business, you’ll have experiences, exposure, and education to satisfy you. Discover and explore a variety of career development programs and job-specific training.
- ** Paid