Woolworths Supermarkets Hiring for Area Manager – North East NSW – Tamworth Region at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Full Time

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.

An exciting opportunity for a Store Operations Leader to take the next step in their career journey.

• Supporting stores within the Tamworth region of NSW – Enjoy the country lifestyle!
• Competitive remuneration package
• Permanent full time opportunity

With the ultimate aim of putting our customers and team first, our Group Manager position is pivotal to coach, support and lead our store teams to success. Engaging with a variety of stakeholders, the Group Manager is accountable for leading and coaching stores to meet key objectives and embed our purpose, values and ways of working to ensure a customer and team 1st culture built on solid foundations.

We work in an energetic, exciting and fast-paced environment. We each have the opportunity to impact in a way that only we can. Being a part of the wider Woolworths Group, which includes the businesses of Woolworths Supermarkets, Big W, Metro, Pet Culture and more means you won’t have one opportunity with us, you’ll have thousands.

We are looking for a full time Group Manager to support 7 stores within the Tamworth area who is committed, driven and looking for a long term role with a drive for growth.

About Us

Founded in 1924, Woolworths Group is Australia’s largest retailer with more than 3,500 stores across Australia and New Zealand that span food, drinks, general merchandise, and hotels. The Woolworths Group is a proud, home-grown Australian business, employer of more than 205,000 people and a committed business partner of many thousand local farmers, producers, and manufacturers.

The Role

We are currently looking for a passionate retail people leader to join our team as a Group Manager. You will provide support to the zone and state teams to deliver the company and zone strategy by guiding, coaching, influencing and motivating a team of Store Managers and over 1300 team members. You will be an integral part of implementing and creating a group strategy to ensure the delivery of the company vision, while identifying and developing talent to build a pipeline for the future within the wider zone.

Who We’re Looking For

You’re the kind of person who creates an engaging, high performance team culture through brand advocacy, team focus, providing a sense of purpose and connecting team members to the business strategy. We’re looking for a strong leader, who is supportive and able to drive positive outcomes across the diverse needs of the group, ultimately creating great experiences for our customers.

Your Success Profile For This Role

Operational leadership experience in a multi-site retail environment is pivotal to balancing big picture thinking with executing on strategic plans and an ability to prioritise operational needs. Experience in supporting, coaching, mentoring and inspiring a large team is essential to execute and deliver key initiatives. Strong attention to detail with an emphasis on process and compliance is important to ensuring delivery is consistent and embedded with sustainable change. Strong financial acumen, influencing skills, and a data led approach will enable effective decisions, a focus on the right things and allow purposeful support from key partners to help the group achieve what is needed.

You Will Have

• Retail leadership experience, ideally in multi site
• Experience leading and embedding change, and improving business performance
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement, negotiation and influencing skills
• A strategic mind and the ability to see the bigger picture aligning our store priorities to support achieving them
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to relate to a range of stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability in prioritisation and time management
• The ability to translate data or analytics into real time information that supports robust decision making
• Experience leading, supporting and developing a team
• Flexibility to travel
• A passion for working on the ground with your teams and a hunger for engagement and connection

Why you’ll love it here

In addition to this exciting role, these are some of the benefits we offer:

• An attractive remuneration package including base + superannuation + Tool of Trade
• Team member discounts at all Woolworths businesses
• The opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia across our brands
• Flexible work arrangements
• An exciting career – as our business grows, so do the opportunities for our people

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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

If you meet a number of the requirements, but not all, we encourage you to submit your application. You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or via www.wowcareers.com.au. #work180.

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.