Woolworths Group Hiring for Senior Product Manager at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Full Time

• Join wiq: we are bringing the best of Woolworths Group and Quantium together to make data driven decisions
• Enjoy the perks of working in a start-up, backed in an established organisation
• Be part of a fantastic team culture

About Woolworths Group

Woolworths Group is an Australian food and everyday needs retailer employing 1900,000 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, bringing the best of Woolworths Group and Quantium together to make data driven decisions. By partnering with Quantium, a world-class data science and advanced analytics business, we’re excited about the future, as we unlock the power of data to reimagine retail.

Through this partnership, we’ve created a new business called wiq, 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.

The Opportunity

The Senior Product Manager, wiq, is a high impact role in a high growth business focused on managing a strategic product through early stage growth into maturity.

You will act as the champion of a user-centric product and agile practices within the business. You will develop, implement and continuously improve the go-to-market strategy for our products, ensuring product-market fit (as it relates to the user base), as well as seeking additional customer insight to enhance the value proposition.

Strong partnering and influencing skills will be required for this role, as well as the ability to work effectively in ambiguous environments while focusing on your ideal outcome.

Key Responsibilities

Lead product strategy:

• Create a vision and strategy for the product, ensuring alignment with key stakeholders on the target business outcomes and trade-offs underpinning the roadmap
• Define the product value proposition, based on deep understanding of user needs and analysis of market and competitor landscape
• Define the commercialisation and go-to-market strategy for the product, partnering across Woolworths and Quantium to execute on that strategy
• Develop and present business cases to secure funding for the roadmap
• Establish KPIs to track validation of product-market fit and iterate strategy based on learnings
• Prepare and deliver executive briefings on these topics with stakeholders

Lead End-to-end Product Delivery

• Conduct continuous discovery activities with the business and user base to ensure that the product is optimised to deliver value throughout its lifecycle
• Refine the product backlog and manage the pipeline of ideas and features
• Collaborate with Delivery, User Experience specialists, Engineering and Analytics team members to uncover valuable, usable, feasible, viable and strategic solutions
• Ensure that delivered work meets the definition of ‘done’ – satisfying user needs and delivering on business outcomes

Provide Thought Leadership On User-centric, Advanced Analytics Product Development

• Provide thought leadership on the digital transformation agenda and use of data science and analytics to unlock value for retail use-cases
• Play an active role in the Product Chapter, coaching others on the principles and approaches underpinning best practice, such as design thinking, agile and lean product practices, and championing the value of Product Management across wiq
• Keep constantly up to date with what is going on the in the wider industry

About You

• 8+ years’ experience in product management for web-based user applications – preferably in a B2B environment
• Knowledge of the data science and AI domain, with experience in developing solutions to derive value from data to inform better business decisions
• Retail / FMCG industry knowledge, and knowledge of digital / clickstream data is a major advantage
• Demonstrable experience working in an agile environment
• Degree qualified; postgraduate qualifications highly valued
• Sharp problem-solving skills with experience partnering with stakeholders to solve complex user and business problems using advanced analytics
• Well-developed senior stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Experienced team leader
• Superior presentation and communications skills (written and verbal)

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.