Business Improvement Specialist

**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.

**Business Improvement Specialist - Business Analyst**
- **Passionate about continuous improvement, processes, problem solving, data analysis and systems**:

- **Full-time opportunity for an outcome focused and technological driven individual based at our Yennora support office**:

- **Join one of Australia’s leading retail groups, and enjoy the opportunity to grow and make a positive difference**

**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 works closely with all areas of the domestic transport business to identify data driven opportunities to enable process optimisation and maximise technology usage and enable automation to add value to our customers and stakeholders to deliver the strategic business objectives.
Whether we’re learning new things, seizing the initiative, or winning together, our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for an individual who takes accountability and strives to always do the right thing for our team, our communities, our customers, and our business.

**What you will be doing**:

- Identify, own and deliver continuous improvement initiatives through the system and/or process implementations.
- Manage data analysis, present insights and document processes to determine areas of opportunity and recommend actionable solutions. If required, plan and facilitate workshops with relevant stakeholders.
- Act as a change agent to enable teams to leverage technologies and continuous improvement techniques.
- Develop fundamental continuous improvement knowledge and training to the wider Operations team.
- Assess and agree on priorities as you will be engaged to deliver on multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously.

**To be successful you will**:

- Delivery-focused individual that is comfortable with a level of ambiguity, work autonomously and manage changing priorities
- Have the desire to join a fast-paced operational environment
- Swiftly adapt to and thrive in a rapidly evolving ecosystem
- Proactively find innovative and unique solutions to solve problems
- Lateral thinker with high attention to detail, data accuracy and quality of output
- Be detail-oriented with superior organisational skills
- Have an aptitude to learn new tools, techniques and systems quickly
- Feel comfortable negotiating, influencing and/or managing key project stakeholders which include
- business leaders, end-users and development teams
- Drives for increased responsibility and self-development

**Experience (desirable)**:

- 2+ ye ars of supply chain, transport n etwork, process improvement an d/or systems knowledge advantageous
- Previous work experience in an analytical role, spreadsheeting tools including Excel and Google Sheets
- Interest in or proficiency with a programming/querying language
- Broad experience or understanding of continuous improvement methodologies (Lean Six Sigma, TPM, 5S, Theory of Constraints, etc.) and supply chain technologies (Blue Yonder TMS, Salesforce, Visibility systems, etc.)

**We’d love to hear from You