Workforce Planning Sme

Workforce Planning "Subject Matter Expert" career role
- Regular travel to our Distribution Centres across Australia and New Zealand
- Role can be based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane or Perth 2 Year FTC with attractive salary and benefits package on offer

**Endless possibilities with Woolworths Group**

We're a proud part of the Woolworths Group - 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives working together connected by a shared Purpose - 'to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.'
Here you'll be supported and empowered to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week. Backed by a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and the support to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

**Welcome to Primary Connect**

Primary Connect is the most extensive food and retail supply chain network in Australia and New Zealand. Our 10,000-strong team are an essential part of the expansive Woolworths Group, which encompasses Woolworths Supermarkets and Metro stores, BIG W, Countdown NZ, Quantium, and more. With us, your possibilities are not limited to a single opportunity.
We're delivering to more than 3,000 retail stores every day (stores like Woolworths, BIG W, Dan Murphy's, and BWS), but at Primary Connect, we're more than just a supply chain business. We're a big team, but every individual plays a pivotal role and leaves a distinctive impact.

**What you'll do**

Contribute to changing the face of Woolworths Groups' Workforce Management as we implement a world-leading Labour Planning and Time and Attendance Systems suite within our distribution network.
As the Workforce Planning SME (Subject Matter Expert) and champion of the Operations needs you will:

- Manage the requirements of the business, develop solutions (process, practice, technology, training), combine with testing, delivery and support for system implementation
- Provide knowledge within the domain of labour planning and subsequent day-of-operations team member roster management requirements
- Travelling to our various DC's across Australia and New Zealand to support the solution implementations
- Supporting 'Understanding the Change' through impact assessments, knowledge sharing and uncovering business readiness activities, through coaching Site Operations and Labour Planning Teams to support change management
- Developing and facilitating User Acceptance Testing aligned to detailed design requirements for execution in Defect and Hotfix testing
- As part of the team you will develop 'Site Champions' and End User Training at the various DC's so that the sites can become self-sufficient and ensure the systems continue to run as intended by troubleshooting and resolving issues Continuing to learn and understand current ways of working in labour planning and DC operations, and challenge the 'norm' to translate requirements into future ways of working and continuous improvement

**What you will bring**
We'd like to hear from you if you have an operational, labour planning, or systems management background in a senior capacity, are a keen troubleshooter with a "can-do" attitude, great with people, and you thrive on being part of a high performing team.
You'll need to be a team player with an ability to travel extensively across Australia and New Zealand, have an interest in developing your expertise within Labour Planning, as well as having a passion for helping people understand the system.
- Experience within warehouse operations, labour planning or systems, in a leadership or SME capacity
- Ability to understand technical issues and communicate problems and solutions to a non-technical stakeholder group
- Structured and methodical problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence in a non-leadership role
- Ability to re-engineer processes to deliver cost, quality and service improvements Demonstrated experience in fundamental change management

**What you'll experience**

Everything we do is driven by a culture of care for our team, customers, and community.

We create a thriving team experience through a culture of belonging that champions safety and wellbeing for our people and partners.
- Career development opportunities: A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline - with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
- We offer team member discounts across all Woolworths Group and partner businesses, access to discounts in novated leases, share purchase plans, lifestyle and other attraction discounts
- Generous parental leave policy, with 4 weeks paid leave for all secondary carers, and all permanent full and part-time roles can access Parental Leave from their first day We are open and encourage conversations regarding flexib