Woolworths

Team Enablement Partner

• Enjoy a role with breadth of responsibility, supporting our Operations & Support teams

• Develop your skills further in New Zealand; join a close-knit and supportive team

• Hybrid, permanent role, based in Christchurch, with travel to other hubs

Ready to make an impact?

As our Team Enablement Partner, you will partner with our retail and franchise, ecommerce and retail businesses  to evolve our frontline team experience. The ideal candidate will support enhancing and delivering key initiatives in key team experience processes, training, engagement, rostering and embedding key change initiatives. The role acts as a vital link between stores and the wider People team, ensuring our strategies are operationalised and aligned with team feedback and needs. You will be responsible for informing the store's people roadmap and providing operational guidance on talent and capability plans for Woolworths NZ frontline operations.. Ultimately, you will ensure our team's needs are heard and prioritised to drive maximum engagement and performance at a store level.

This role will be based in Christchurch, with relocation support from around New Zealand or Australia available.

What you'll do | Hei mahi

This role will provide people partnership to our Ecommerce Operations, Store Support and Fresh Choice teams on their people plans, you will:

• Supporting the development and delivery of our frontline team’s people roadmap, ensuring alignment with wider business goals

• Partnering with internal stakeholders, including Operations and Support teams, to champion solutions that simplify processes and benefit our teams and customers

• Leading with a team and customer-centric approach to planning and prioritisation, driving continuous improvement

• Providing operational guidance and driving our people initiatives for store talent and capability plans, including our Better Together Operating Model

• Collaborating with retail and franchise business units to ensure effective communication and drive best practice outcomes

What you’ll bring | Hei koha

To be successful in this role, your experience will likely reflect:

• Proven background in a Human Resources role which has supported a large retailer, hospitality or organisation With a preference for the candidate to have over 5 years of relevant experience in a business partnering capacity

• Experience within a Human Resources/ business partnering role; with exposure to Employee Relations/Industrial Relations and ability to partner with key stakeholders such as unions. 

• Strong relationship management and interpersonal skills, able to build trust, with a talent for leading and coaching change initiatives

• Deep understanding of end-to-end people processes and experience in managing program deployment

• Highly developed problem-solving skills, with a track record of driving process improvement within teams

• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

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 

• Ongoing development within an ANZ team and access to COE/specialist career opportunities

• 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

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.