Team Experience Partner Big W

**About Us**
The Woolworths Group is a proud, home grown Australian business with more than 185,000 team members working throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia for our trusted brands including Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown and BIG W. Our commitment to our team members is to create compelling reasons for them to choose Woolworths as the best place to work and grow. We are a purpose led, people business and Create Better Experiences Together for a Better Tomorrow as we keep innovating the future of retail for our customers and teams.

BIG W's best and most valued asset is its team of 22,000 passionate people in Australia and Asia. We believe the most vital ingredient to driving our business success is our people and we aim to empower every individual to make a positive contribution, extend career skills and ultimately maximise their potential.

Delivering on our Group purpose by shaping and driving the Woolworths team experience is integral to our People Team ambition and strategy. We support our significant team base and enable working end to end with other teams in our retail ecosystem through partnerships. We are currently on a journey to transform by scaling agile to build a next generation retail people team for Woolworths Group.

**The Opportunity**
Due to an internal promotion we are looking for a Team Experience Partner to join our Big W Stores team. Partnering with our State Manager and the leadership team, this is a senior partnering role supporting a team that leads Big W Stores in Victoria, WA & Tasmania.

Reporting through to our People Lead - Big W Stores & Store Support, this is a unique opportunity to make an impact on our business performance through your exceptional partnering ability and talent in identifying opportunities to enhance organisational effectiveness. Your expertise in driving outcomes through strong relationships with business leaders will focus on building and implementing strategies in alignment with business plans.

In this role, you will:

- Develop and implement people strategies that attract, develop and retain talent to deliver on the strategic direction of the business
- Research and analyse people-related data to provide insights, identify opportunities and offer recommendations that will enhance organisational effectiveness
- Drive continuous improvement of People practices by working end to end across our tribes and businesses
- Proactively manage the implementation of change & culture initiatives
- Provide actionable insights to Leaders on best practice and trends in HR data Design and implement tailored communications plans to drive the Portfolio’s People Plan Partner with business on organisational design, workforce planning, succession planning, and skills development
- Partner with the business to lead both annual and mid-year review processes which focus on talent development and performance management
- Provide management coaching to front line managers and senior leaders, and help create a diverse and inclusive culture that aligns to the Woolworths Purpose, Values and Ways of Working

This role will engage broadly across the people team, business and our portfolio of squads to put Teams at the heart of our delivery, driving deeper personalisation & care across our Team Journeys, defining clear objectives and key results to realise regular value across our quarterly delivery cycles.

**About you**
You have an exceptional ability to build lasting relationships and partner with stakeholders across all levels of an organisation - a skill that has been developed through your previous experience in a strategic business partner role. You will possess strong business acumen, excellent communication and influencing skills, the ability to think and plan for the long term, as well as the capability to diagnose issues and use data and insights to influence solutions/outcomes. You will have a passion for understanding your stakeholders and mastery in embedding yourself into their world as a trusted and collaborative partner. In addition:

- Experience partnering in a fast-paced organisation within the retail/FMCG industry is highly desired, as is working in a matrix-style organisation;
- Demonstrated experience successfully leading organisations through large-scale change and transformation, and
- Strategic and creative mindset coupled with strong commercial acumen and experience in demonstrating business impact and outcomes as a result of action taken
- Highly refined skills in partnering to interface effectively with leaders and peers at all levels of our organisation.

**Joining the Group
As part of the wider Woolworths 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 f