Woolworths

• Permanent role
• Auckland office location with hybrid working
• Work collaboratively with other data professionals to deliver best in class solutions

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.

Ready to make an impact?

The purpose of the wiqNZ team is to unlock the power of data to imagine retail, which contributes to making Kiwis’ lives a little better every day.

What you'll do | Hei mahi

With a strong focus on supporting WWNZ transformation, the Strategic Insights Senior Manager leads a diverse analytics team to deliver rapid, valuable and actionable insights solutions across priority strategic and commercial projects for the WWNZ business. The purpose of this role is to own the relationship with the business to identify opportunities, driving strategic and commercial thinking across revenue-driving and cost-optimisation insights projects. Additionally, this role will manage a squad of analysts to deliver value through analytics, insights and decision-making tools.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Serve as a trusted insights partner / thought leader, understanding both the business strategy and the commercial drivers, challenge and innovate with data to identify critical problems or opportunities and act as a translator of where value can be unlocked through insights to drive measurable outcomes.
• Collaborate with Strategy and BU senior leadership to understand the problem / opportunity spaces linked to key Transformation pillars. Uses outstanding influencing and business partnering skills to effectively diagnose the core value drivers and challenge the status quo.
• Proactively work with BU senior leaders to manage expectations of new and future initiatives, including prioritisation of competing priorities to maximise value, ensuring clear communication and alignment.
• Hands-on leadership of high-profile strategic cross-domain revenue or cost optimisation analytics projects, ensuring workstreams are unified and working together towards driving to business outcomes in line with evolving transformation priorities
• Structure nebulous problem statements and develop hypotheses / issue trees to determine the solution(s).
• Ensuring best practice solution discovery, problem definition, solution design, and build principles and approaches are adopted, including that they are appropriately resourced with the right capabilities and delivery is aligned to stakeholder expectations.
• Transforming data into actionable insights, creating end-to-end strategic narratives that convey clear, compelling and articulate storylining and strategy presentations to influence business decisions. Effectively communicate complex analytical findings to non-technical audiences.

What you’ll bring | Hei koha

• Strategic / Commercial experience: Consulting firm experience ideally Manager/Senior Manager from Practice / Functional areas such as: Retail and Consumer Goods, Analytics, Strategy & Transformation, including strategy formulation through to delivery
• Retail Acumen: Strong understanding of the retail industry, with specific experience in pricing and promotions. FMCG experience is highly desirable.
•  Data Analysis & Problem Solving: Proven ability to identify key business challenges, analyze data, and develop effective solutions that drive business value.
•  Communication & Collaboration: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership.
•  Technical Proficiency (preferred): 5+ years of experience delivering decision-making tools using SQL, BigQuery, Tableau, and Looker. Experience with GitHub and other advanced analytics tools is a plus
•  Workshop facilitation
•  Team Leadership: Ability to articulate a clear vision, inspire team members, and remove obstacles to ensure successful project delivery.
•  Proactive Communication: Consistently communicates proactively and transparently with stakeholders to manage expectations and competing priorities.
•  Results-Oriented: Focuses on high-value, high-impact initiatives and consistently delivers results.
•  Adaptability: Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic, and sometimes ambiguous environment.
•  Continuous Improvement: Actively seeks opportunities to improve processes and leverage internal frameworks for delivery excellence.

This is a fast paced innovative role and one where you will be empowered to make a significant contribution to making Kiwis’ lives a little better everyday! If you’d like to make a key contribution to the growth of our business, apply today!

Our Benefits 

• Genuine flexibility in how and where you work
• Ongoing development within an ANZ team and access to COE/specialist career opportunities
• Everyday Rewards team card, providing a range of benefits including discounts and bonus points for groceries and discounted online shopping delivery
• Banking and insurance (health, life etc) discounts 
• Global and local career opportunities

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group 

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging re 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.