We currently have a fantastic permanent full-time opportunity for a Business Owner - Promotions to join our Buying team. The Business Owner - Promotions will help reshape the future of promotional performance measurement in Retail, in collaboration with a cross-functional team across Buying, Pricing & Customer Value, WooliesX and Wiq. 

This role will be the opportunity to develop your senior stakeholder engagement skills, requiring regular engagement with Executives & Senior Buying leadership. This is a great opportunity to position yourself as a business & thought leader and to develop core senior leadership skills that are crucial to progressing into more senior roles in Buying.

With joint responsibility for a multi-million dollar annual benefits target, this is an important role in ensuring that the Promotional program & measurement tools resonate with team, customers & suppliers, as part of the broader Pricing & Customer value strategy and drives improved traffic, engagement and customer NPS.

This role is based in Sydney and is offering hybrid work arrangements.

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.

About the Opportunity

Reporting to the Head of Customer & Member Promotions,  you will lead a cross functional squad of direct and indirect team members, in partnership with a dedicated Product Manager. You will manage a team of approximately 5+ individuals, across a broad range of roles, including promotions analysts, data engineers & data scientists, from both Woolworths & WiQ. 

Key Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: 

• Co-own a multi-million dollar annual promotions benefits target, working in partnership with Buying teams to deliver a promotional program that resonates with customer & suppliers and delivers an improved ROI and reduces wasteful promo spend
• Deliver value creation across the promotions portfolio, in strong collaboration with Buying teams and across all levels of leadership, through the development & deployment of strong, customer first promotional strategies for the entire supermarket (with a particular focus on Fresh)
• Drive business buy-in & cut-through, to enable the adoption of fit for purpose solutions, development of category specific promotional playbooks & strategies and value creation roadmaps to deliver annual promo improvement benefits targets
• Collaborate across other pricing and merchandising functions to develop and implement promotion strategies cascaded from leadership, including scoping and leading enhancements to the promotional toolkit to keep up with the evolving needs of the business and retail landscape
• Develop & own the business requirements & enhancement roadmap for the PET tools and deliver on objectives and key results through strong stakeholder engagement and change management
• Support the implementation of tailored promotional displays in store, in line with our ambition to increasingly curate range and space to the local community
• Own the program and initiative level reporting for the Next Gen Promotions team, including regular trade and P&L reporting, as well as initiative level post implementation reviews

In this role you will have an opportunity to position yourself as a strategic leader, demonstrate your influencing skills and ability to interact with senior stakeholders, and demonstrate your ability to work cross functionally to influence resources to support the best business outcome.

About you

Keen on this opportunity? Let’s talk about you now!

You are a highly motivated, analytical individual, who is looking to accelerate your leadership development journey in Buying and gain critical, broader-thinking business experience.

Delivering outstanding experiences for both our internal buying teams and supplier partners, you have extensive product ownership & commercial transformation/ strategy experience which will enable you to drive fit for purpose business tools & outcomes. 

You maintain a local market and global perspective on emerging technologies and trends, and will bring to the role a demonstrated experience supporting the development and coaching of others in their existing roles as well as future career aspirations. You strive to maintain a competitive edge, and pride yourself on your strong influencing skills which enable you to influence teams to drive and adopt innovation and commercial outcomes, balancing long & short term value delivery.
 
Key skills, attributes and desirable experience includes: 

• Experienced strategy / business transformation professional, with previous product ownership experience advantageous 
• Financial & commercial acumen and ability to analyse information, identify trends and prioritise
• Fast-paced, effective decision making and highly organised
• Ability to think strategically and shape the vision and strategic deliverables for your area
• Exceptional leadership skills and experience in developing high performing teams

If you meet a number of requirements (and not all), we encourage you to submit your application.

As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do. 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 diversity and aim to create a vibrant and inclusive workforce which reflects the communities we serve. 

Grow with the Group
 
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.

 
Sound like your next opportunity? Apply now or head along to www.wowcareers.com.au to discover more!

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