Supplier Solutions Lead

**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 support businesses within Woolworths Group (such as Supermarkets, Countdown and Big W), and over 1,300 commercial customers across the country, to connect communities with the products we need and love.

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.
- **Based out of our Norwest Office**:

- **Hybrid work arrangements**:

- **Opportunity to influence within various supply chain projects
**Supplier Solutions Lead**

**Purpose of role**:
Manage and influence stakeholders to solve and get the best outcome for Woolworths for required Supply Chain projects.

**You will be responsible to:
- Determine supplier freight cost recovery impacts due to network changes and work across internal and external stakeholders.
- Supplier standards document - stakeholder management of all parties to get best outcome
- Develop a strategic approach to optimising commercial outcomes as NDC suppliers move from MNDC to the new Moorebank DC
- Plan and work with stakeholders to launch commercial supply chain training - to ensure best results forWoolworths Group
- Escalate supplier non-conformance issues with the Woolworths commercial/ buying team to resolve outstanding or recurring issues across the supply chain network
- Prepare and execute communication plans as required for new and on-going projects.
- Events preparation and planning for suppliers events as required
- Work with & support with Suppliers and Buying Teams
- Develop comms and change plans to support Supply Chain Projects
- Stakeholder Management and influencing

**About you**:

- Excellent communication skills and will be able to write, speak, and present clearly and succinctly across a variety of communication settings
- Sound understanding of commercial buying processes and day to day management
- Strong relationship building skills
- Proactive and a self-starter, detail orientation and organised
- You will be Innovative; creating new ideas and challenging the status quo.
- High level of influencing and negotiation skills to achieve best possible outcomes.
- Developed understanding of supplier and buying processes
- Demonstrated stakeholder engagement and leading behavioural and cultural change
- Superior MS Office, Google docs, reporting and ERP system use

**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