About us
Woolworths New Zealand is New Zealand’s largest private sector employer, with turnover of ~$8bn and a team of 22,000 Kiwis serving 3 million customers across 191 Countdown supermarkets and 72 franchise stores every week.
As part of Woolworths Group, we are committed to our purpose of creating better experiences together for a better tomorrow and making Kiwis’ lives a little better every day. We are proud to be NZ’s largest online retailer and we are passionate about continuing to innovate in the areas of digital, rewards, analytics, fresh food and sustainability.

The Role
A unique opportunity to join our team as a GM strategy has become available, joining our WWNZ business as we embark on an exciting transformation journey.

The General Manager, Strategy, is the primary role within Woolworths New Zealand responsible for driving overall strategy development and providing internal strategic advisory capability across Woolworths New Zealand as well as the broader Woolworths group.

Working closely with the Woolworths New Zealand Executive and Senior Leadership Team, and partnering with the wider Woolworths Group Strategy portfolio, this role is responsible for developing and refining Woolworths New Zealand multi-year strategy and annual strategic plans, and addressing our most pressing strategic questions and priorities across all organisational domains.

This includes leading and influencing the overall strategic planning process, supporting a portfolio of key strategic projects (multiple at once), leading and developing strategy team capability, and working in the heart of accelerating retail transformation. This also includes partnering closely with the Transformation team and across the organisation to ensure that we drive effective strategy execution.

What you will do:

• Set and refine the WWNZ 3-5 year strategic plan and lead WWNZ’s participation in the annual Woolworths Group strategic planning process
• Develop, lead, facilitate, support and deliver a diverse portfolio of key strategy projects – typically alongside cross-functional teams
• Provide strategic thought leadership to the Woolworths NZ executive and senior leadership team
• Understand key customer and market trends, performance drivers and dynamics, and define and mobilise end-to-end initiatives to address risks and realise growth opportunities. This includes working closely with the Customer Insights team
• Lead executive level communication and engagement relating to strategy, including leading Board-level strategy updates and Board papers, and driving wider Leadership communications relating to strategy
• Partner closely with the Transformation team to ensure that transformation delivery plans are in place and driving strategy implementation including resourcing, governance, key metrics, and weekly/monthly/quarterly delivery cadences
• Play a key input role in relation to our Quarterly Delivery Cycle - ensuring that this is used to effectively drive progress against strategic priorities.
• Partner closely with the wider Group Strategy and Transformation portfolio to flow Group insights and capabilities into the NZ business as appropriate, and to contribute insights, value and capabilities from WWNZ back into the wider Woolworths Group.
• Build, lead and develop a high performing strategy team

What you will bring:

• Experience delivering projects and making strategies come to life in large organisations – with a mix of project and consulting experience
• Proven experience in leading large teams (both direct and indirect teams)
• Demonstrated experience in developing cutting edge strategic insights, and establishing and driving recommendations
• Engaging and strong relationship builder, cutting through silos with an end to end ways of working/outcomes
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement; ability to influence and align senior leaders (ELT) to the strategic direction
• Commercially focused with mindset and passion for customers and team
• Experience operating in a strategy environment as part of a multi-geography corporate preferred
• Experience in the retail / consumer market is strongly preferred
• Significant experience in a strategy consulting firm and leadership or similar experience in a corporate strategy environment

What’s in it for you:

• A competitive executive level remuneration package including, base, kiwisaver, car allowance, short term incentive and LTI
• Opportunity to work and collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia and NZ
• An exciting career - as our business grows, so do the opportunities for our people
• Flexibility and work-life balance policies that will help you thrive
  

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.