Woolworths

Portfolio Engagement Lead Group Capabilities, CustomerX and eComX - Career Solutions

• Bring your expertise in consulting and orchestration at scale

• Deeply partner with senior leaders and teams to design fit for purpose career solutions across talent, leadership, learning, inclusion, performance and reward

• Bring our team value proposition to life to unlock meaningful careers for our team and accelerate business performance

Welcome to the People Team

Better experiences for our Team Members are the key to unlocking a better future for our customers and communities. Our People Team is responsible for powering the trajectory of our business and the wellbeing of our people – through the design and delivery of a seamless and enriching Team Member experience. One that strengthens the foundations of our organisation by empowering passionate Team Members to become purpose-led Woolworths Group advocates and attracting a new generation of talent to the group.

We have an exciting opportunity within our Team Experience Tribes and are looking Portfolio Engagement Lead - Careers Solutions These pivotal roles play a key role in transforming how we design and deliver career solutions, both foundation strategic priorities that need to be activated across our businesses, as well as leading fit-for-purpose career business solutions.

What you'll do

As the Portfolio Engagement Lead, you will act as a strategic engagement partner/consultant to orchestrate design and delivery of solutions within the business portfolio.  You will ensure the unlock of our technology investments, step changing career journeys and experiences for our team, you will also: 

• Collaborate closely with the People Directors and Leads enabling them to allocate their capacity to co-create solutions that directly meet the unique needs 

• Streamline interactions between the Careers Tribe and relevant Practices and Business Value Teams creating a more efficient and intuitive approach whilst removing duplication 

• Build strong partnering relationships and deep engagement to achieve mutual goals and foster trust 

• Deeply understand business strategies and business portfolio people plans. Shape, plan and prioritise outcomes and solutions required to enable strategy

• Lead the design and implementation of connected roadmaps for the designated portfolio, ensuring alignment between initiatives and business requirements

• Lead the integrated delivery of work across the squads within Career Business.

What you’ll bring

Bringing your strategic thinking, problem solving skills and commercial acumen while applying sound judgement. You are also highly skilled in orchestration and delivery of outcomes whilst navigating multiple stakeholders and diverse perspectives to achieve common goals, you will also bring: 

• Strong consulting background, analytical, and diagnostic skills highly desirable

• Strong understanding of agile models, frameworks and agility in solutioning

• Collaborative and commercial partnering approach with the ability to ‘hold the tension’ in prioritisation and solutioning to achieve win-win outcomes

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to frame complex information in a simple way to enable decision making and gain alignment

• Anticipate and remove roadblocks and impediments to delivery, identifying and mitigating risks 

• Apply human centred design principles to solutioning with strong understanding of careers trends and team experience career journeys

 What you’ll experience

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 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.

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group

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.