Woolworths

Group Manager (Central QLD)

• Advocate and role model genuine customer care through Everyday Good Acts
• Collaborate as a team to develop future leaders and drive the success of the Supermarkets Business
• Leading the store leadership teams in Group 505 (Rockhampton region), this permanent position may be for you!

We are Woolworths Group

We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts, and unique perspectives across Australia and New Zealand. Connected by a shared Purpose - 'to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow'. That Purpose fuels our ambition 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.

If you're excited to turn today's blue-sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you'll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive, and empowering workplace. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work, and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

The Opportunity

Our Group Manager position is pivotal in coaching teams through change and to support and lead our store teams to success. Partnering with various stakeholders, the Group Manager is accountable for leading a team of Store Managers to meet key objectives and embed our purpose, values and ways of working to ensure teams deliver on customers needs and find new ways to help customers find value and feel valued!

You will provide support to the zone and state teams to deliver the strategy by coaching and motivating a team of Store Managers and over 1000 team members. You will be an integral part of implementing the group strategy and using key levers to achieve sustainable results to create better experiences for a better tomorrow.

What you’ll do

As the Group Manager you'll support Group 505 (Allenstown, Blackwater, Emerald, Emerald East, Gracemere, North Rockhampton, Northside Plaza, Parkhurst & Yeppoon). Enabling the Supermarkets Strategy within your Group to ensure its successful delivery of key commercial outcomes while maintaining a team and customer first lens.You will also:

• Lead with a blend of data and intuition to make sound operational decisions using key levers to achieve sustainable results and address current and emerging customer needs
• Have an unwavering focus on safety by ensuring this is a top priority for team and customers through the correct following of processes
• Always role model and lead with care by supporting Store Managers and their team to drive team engagement  and connectedness within the Group
• Lead with purpose and support your Group to engage in key community events
• Navigate through change initiatives and support store leadership team to actively enable our digital transformation
• Unlock diverse skills sets within your group, creating a strong, capable sustainable talent pipeline to support group/zone/state
• Set and deliver high operational standards for the Group by making data-led decisions; being at the forefront of the ever evolving customer needs/trends

What you’ll bring

We are looking for a Leader with warmth, care and genuine interest to build and maintain relationships within their team. Bring your passion for people and team, developing and embedding a high-performance and engaging team-first culture, along with your strategic and commercial lens to transform and future proof your Group. You will also have:

• Previous retail leadership experience, multi-site exposure within a large scale or complex environment 
• Experience leading and embedding change and the ability to collaborate and partner across a number of different teams throughout the Group
• Strong influencing skills to influence across a broad range of audiences, flexing approach to collaborate with a diverse range of audiences
• An analytical mindset, balancing use of data with intuition and environmental awareness
• An ability to understand strategy and bring together large teams to achieve key business outcomes through mobilisation and prioritisation.

What you’ll experience

Our Team Members are at the heart of everything we do and we’re always looking for ways to support your career journey and reward great work:

• A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
• Access to Sonder.  Sonder provides free confidential 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological or physical support for team members and their families.
• A progressive and competitive leave policy that gives you more space for what matters to you.  
• Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
• Attractive remuneration package, including base salary, performance-based incentive schemes and motor vehicle allowance.

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.

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.

We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.

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