Transformation Consultant

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.

What you’ll do | Hei mahi

The Transformation Consultant is a pivotal role within our dynamic Transformation team, playing a key role in supporting strategic transformation initiatives within Woolworths NZ, ensuring that we achieve our business goals. You will be actively involved in a range of transformation initiatives, applying your knowledge and expertise to drive successful outcomes. Your success will depend on your commercial judgement, ability to influence senior stakeholders, and confidence working across a matrix environment.

Specifically, The Role Will See You

• Drive Strategic Impact: You’ll be at the heart of Woolworths’ transformation journey, working with our business teams to help to shape, plan, and deliver initiatives that align with our core business goals.
• Master Process Redesign: Leverage your expertise to uncover inefficiencies and transform business processes, directly boosting efficiency, reducing costs, removing complexity and duplication and elevating the customer experience.
• Turn Strategy into Reality: You’ll partner with stakeholders to help translate strategic objectives into actionable initiatives, backed up by strong financial reasons to believe, craft clear implementation plans, and sometimes deliver the initiative
• Enable Data-Driven Success: By using your financial skills, you’ll develop cost benefit analysis and/or business cases that empower leaders to objectively compare strategic options and make informed decisions.
• Cultivate Expertise & Innovation: You’ll contribute to our Community of Practice by developing knowledge artifacts and standardized methodologies, while constantly exploring AI and new technologies to keep us at the cutting edge.
• Prepare high-quality executive papers and presentations which provide succinct summaries and recommendations based on your work and insights gleaned from stakeholders

Possess a demonstrated track record in the delivery and application of business transformation.

Professional experience in managing end-to-end organisational transformations within the public sector, large-scale commercial enterprises, or leading consulting practices.

In order to thrive in this role, candidates should possess:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in business transformation, preferably with consulting experience across a variety of disciplines and process transformation.
• Organisational design experience would be an advantage
• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in a pertinent field of study.
• Proven experience utilizing Agile methodologies within intricate, matrix-based organizational structures.
• A results-driven and collaborative approach, with the ability to effectively manage ambiguity.
• Outstanding skills in stakeholder management and communication.
• A strong commitment to ongoing professional development and learning.
• An appetite for experimentation combined with the ability to cut to the chase and suggest a pragmatic way forward.

Our Team Members Are At The Heart Of Everything We Do And We’re Always Looking For Ways To Support Your Career Journey And Reward Great Work

• A commitment to flexibility through a hybrid working model which combines time spent at a support office or hub and time working from home, supporting both in-person connection and balancing the flexibility that remote working provides for our teams
• High-impact role supporting our teams who enrich our communities.
• A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
• A range of programs to help you prioritise and manage your wellbeing, including 24/7 access to the Sonder app.
• A progressive and competitive leave policy that gives you more space for what matters to you.
• Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.

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.