Woolworths Group Hiring for Portfolio / Program Manager at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Full Time

About Woolworths Group

Woolworths Group is an Australian food and everyday needs retailer employing 190,000 team members across Asia Pacific, serving over 20 million customers across our brands every week. With more than 1,400 stores across Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown Supermarkets (New Zealand) and BIG W brands, B2B business serving wholesale and export markets, and a range of fast-growing eCommerce businesses, Woolworths Group is Australia and New Zealand’s largest retailer.

We strive to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow for our customers and team, which is why we’ve decided to partner with Quantium, a world-class data science and advanced analytics business. Through our partnership we’re bringing the best of Woolworths Group and Quantium together to unlock the power of data to reimagine retail.

Through this partnership, we’ve created a new business called wiq (formerly known as Q-Retail) who will harness the best of Woolworths Group and Quantium to reimagine retail by solving the most complex problems using data and analytics. As a team, we leverage Agile ways of working to help our team develop their skills while also making sure our team is focusing on solving the most complex problems for both our customers and team.

About Wiq

As a newly established business unit combining the best of Woolworths and the best of Quantium to solve advanced analytics problems across the Woolworths group and commercialise the innovative solutions to the global retailer market. wiq delivers four types of work; platform solutions and products, process tools and solutions, analytical solutions, foundational enablers.

The opportunity
This is a program manager role within wiq that will manage the portfolio of advanced analytics use cases within a domain.

You will be accountable for the operational effectiveness of the domain and the use cases within it. You will lead, coach and mentor the delivery managers executing the use cases. The program manager will be an integral part of the delivery practice providing team members with support and motivation you will share your knowledge and expertise to actively contribute to the development of others. This is leadership role and a thought partner for the Head of Delivery to design and implement new processes, ways of working and tools.

Key Responsibilities

Domain Planning

• Creation and alignment of yearly roadmap view for domain
• Facilitation of domain QDC and responsible for effective execution of Domain Use Case BRPs
• Problem solving sessions

Domain Financials

• Co-creation (in conjunction with Finance) of domain level financial view
• Monitoring and ing on domain financials (inc. capex/opex and benefits)

Resource Management

• Accountable for consolidated view of resourcing movements across domain (inc. supply / demand updates)
• Capacity Planner accuracy for domain

Use Case Creation

• Delivery support for new use cases (inc. ways of working)
• Financial / bus case / planning oversight for new use cases

Delivery Manager Coaching / Mentoring

• Coaching and mentoring across the domain

Domain Leadership

• Facilitation and ownership of monthly meeting
• Candences and rhythms across the domain
• Stakeholder integration

The Benefits To You

• Solve very complex analytical problems accessing one of the richest datasets in Australia
• Use cutting-edge AI and ML tools & Google stack in an enterprise that leads in cloud adoption
• Learn from and work alongside some of the most respected leaders in Data Science
• Accelerate career in a flexible hybrid workplace while being rewarded with above-market comp.
• Have positive impact on the everyday lives of millions of Australians and Kiwis
• Work in an environment where we deliver together through problem solving, action and purposeful focus
• Enjoy the perks of working in a startup, backed by the Woolworths Group and Quantium, enjoying a career within the best of both environments

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 follow us on LinkedIn or see more opportunities via www.wowcareers.com.au. #work180