Woolworths

Product Manager - Range & Space

• Manage a suite of applications in the Range & Space area

• Opportunity to showcase your technical IT knowledge in Range and Space applications, along with your stakeholder management skills

• Full-time permanent position, Sydney based, WFH available with 3 days at the office required

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.

Welcome to Group Enablement

Our Group Enablement Teams are the Technology, Business Enablement, Value Chain and Replenishment experts developing new capabilities and platforms for a better retail future. We’re the crucial link between our stores and the stock they need, the IT engine moving our business forward, the strategic connectors streamlining the way we work, and the forward thinkers using tech to transform the retail experience. Uniting cutting edge technology, data and retail smarts, you’ll work behind the scenes, in the margins and across every corner of the business – to uplift our capability, amplify our collective impacts and revolutionise the customer experience. 

What you’ll do

In this role you'll play a critical role by providing leadership and decision making accountability for a suite of applications in the Range & Space area while delivering cost-effective, quality, innovative technology solutions and services that support business strategy. Leading of team, you will establish cost -timelines for product deliverables and execute process improvement and optimization of the Range and Space applications (e.g. Blue Yonder Category Management) and assortment planning.

Key responsibilities also include: 

• Developing core metrics and KPIs for performance measures relating to applications, along with managing the DevOps product lifecycle for the suite of applications.

• Continuously managing business prioritisation, understanding, and acceptance of the sprint deliverables (or regular releases) and providing thought leadership on a product roadmap to enable the delivery of key business objectives.

• Conducting problem analysis of support issues, deciding and implementing changes to improve product reliability.

• Marketing highly complex technical concepts and solutions in a way that allows quality business decisions.

• Provide leadership and direction to your teams supporting the development of a safe, engaged and skilled team.

• Managing testing across the product suite ensuring quality measures are met, results are documented and maintained.

What you’ll bring

You have the ability to work cross-functionally with both the technology team and the business in meeting core objectives and you can manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment.

You will also demonstrate:

• Strong people management experience within a large organisation.

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills. 

• Technical IT Application knowledge (ideally Range and Space applications such as Blue Yonder CatMan)

• Strong Product Lifecycle Management experience.

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

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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