Woolworths

• Join a passionate team leading injury care, supporting rehabilitation and return to work. 
• Strategic role on the Safety, Health & Wellbeing leadership team, impacting team member well-being and culture
• Fast-paced role focused on end to end injury care, TPA engagement, and continuous improvement. 
• Full-time permanent role in Auckland with a comprehensive handover from a retiring team member.

Ready to make an impact?

As our Safety, Health & Wellbeing Manager – Injury Care, you'll be a critical and technical thinker and leader, responsible for evolving and embedding a proactive culture of injury management excellence across Woolworths New Zealand. We’re excited to welcome the right leader to take over the reins from a long-serving team member who is about to retire. By joining us now, you’ll benefit from the best possible handover and set yourself up for success in one of New Zealand’s largest and leading retail groups. In this role, you'll drive continuous improvement in injury outcomes, directly impacting team member health & wellbeing, operational continuity, and financial performance. This role requires your deep expertise in injury management and a profound understanding of our business to develop and optimise strategic solutions. You'll provide expert advice and thought leadership, influencing key stakeholders to enhance capability and significantly mitigate risk. Ultimately, you will champion our InjuryCare principles to ensure we always do the right thing by our team members.

What you'll do | Hei mahi

Based in Favona, this hybrid role will see you partner with your InjuryCare team, and the broader safety, health & wellbeing team that works as a connected network across the motu as well as our 3rd party administrator and ACC. We are one of the largest employers in New Zealand in the ACC Accredited Employer Programme - so your knowledge, experience and relationships in this area will be critical. Your proven ability to develop and influence in a corporate setting, pioneering a pathway to reduce injuries and lost hours, delivery of AEP requirements and how we plan ahead for future success will have a positive rippling effect across one of the largest employers in New Zealand.

• Leading injury management strategy and compliance, ensuring adherence to all ACC legislation and audit standards.
• Overseeing complex claims and financial management, optimising a multi-million dollar workers' compensation process.
• Driving strategic claims coordination and leveraging data to inform business-wide continuous improvement initiatives.
• Empowering operational leadership through expert coaching to build capability and proactively manage workplace injuries.
• Championing cultural and behavioural change to foster a proactive mindset towards injury prevention and effective recovery in our FMCG environment.
• Cultivating strategic relationships with all stakeholders to ensure seamless collaboration and optimal recovery outcomes.

What you’ll bring | Hei koha

Take charge of designing and embedding a proactive culture of injury management excellence across Woolworths New Zealand. You'll directly impact team wellbeing and business performance with your knowledge of ACC Accredited Employer Programme, ACC Legislation, and injury case management.To be successful in this role, your experience will likely reflect:

• Proven expertise in leading and transforming injury management functions in complex, multi-site environments.
• Deep strategic and practical understanding of ACC legislation and audit standards.
• A demonstrated ability to influence and build high-level relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills for developing innovative, practical solutions.
• Strong capability in co-creating and delivering impactful training and coaching programmes.
• Proficient in leveraging data to identify trends and drive continuous improvement.

This is a fast paced innovative role and one where you will be empowered to make a significant contribution to making Kiwis’ lives a little better everyday! If you’d like to make a key contribution to the growth of our business, apply today!

Our Benefits 

• Genuine flexibility in how and where you work
• Ongoing development within an trans-tasman team and access to amazing leaders to help you learn how to navigate in a large corporate environment
• A very supportive line leader, and peer-to-peer senior SHW leadership team, who all lead with care, compassion and empathy, and will support you to get your feet under the table as quickly as possible.  We’re a practical, problem solving bunch of kiwis, who love what we do
• There are the other items too, like our:
  • Everyday Rewards team card, providing a range of benefits including discounts and bonus points for groceries and discounted online shopping delivery
  • Banking and insurance (health, life etc) discounts 
  • Global and local career opportunities - depending on where you are on your career journey

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.