
About Woolworths Group
Woolworths Group is a food and everyday needs retailer united by the shared purpose of creating better experiences together for a better tomorrow. With more than 1,400 stores across its Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown Supermarkets (New Zealand) and BIG W brands, and fast-growing eCommerce businesses, Woolworths Group is Australia and New Zealand’s largest retailer. A top 10 company on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Woolworths Group employs more than 180,000 team members and serves more than 20 million customers a week.
- 12 month fixed term contract
- Travel required between States | Tools of trade provided
- Competitive salary on offer
Here at Woolworths Group, we are committed to growing greener every day and have set ourselves some ambitious sustainability goals. To enable these commitments, we have a newly created team and function; Proactive Services which will transform the way we deliver our in-store cleaning, trolley collection, and waste management services to our store network. This industry-leading program will contribute to our 2025 Sustainability Plan and our goal of zero food waste to landfill. We truly believe that is one of the steps that will help create a better tomorrow for future generations.
The role of the Retail Stores Deployment Lead is to lead delivery activity of services to stores. The role will partner with and provide deployment progress updates to the State FM Manager and Supermarkets Operations team in-store team.
Your key responsibilities in this role will be:
- Supporting the development of store task planners, and managing the overall set up across the group of stores to ensure success for the team
- Deliver the end to end elements of store services delivery
- Ensure the routines for team selection, recruitment, rostering, payroll, training are carried out effectively and strong routines established
- Responsible for the recruitment of team members for new deployment stores.
- Carry out routine store tours and identification and prioritisation of activity, looking for opportunities to develop and coach the team
- Ensure the reporting and actioning of any service requirements for machinery and equipment are carried out.
- Accountable for a safe site for everyone, everyday by implementing and evaluating safe work practices, improving safety
- Be responsible for onboarding and training of the team
Our ideal candidate will possess one or more of the following:
- An understanding of retail environments, ideally you will have worked on deployment projects in the past
- A solid understanding of Health & Safety within a retail or supermarket environment
- Experience working on projects and meeting expected deadlines
- Have the ability to travel between states to assist with store set up and training
- Demonstrated team leadership and coaching capability
- Highly focussed on service delivery
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 learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or via www.wowcareers.com.au. #LI #work180.
Our Talent Acquisition Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Woolworths Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

