We have a rare opportunity for a Team Experience Partner to join our state people team, partnering with the Operations Manager for a group of 45 stores within the Western Sydney, Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains region. This is a unique chance to impact our business performance through your exceptional partnering skills and eye for identifying opportunities to enhance organisational and team effectiveness. Your expertise in driving outcomes through strong partnering relationships with business leaders, will contribute to building and implementing team strategies in alignment with overall business plans.
**About Woolworths Group
**Woolworths Group is a food and everyday needs retailer united by the shared purpose of creating better experiences together for a better tomorrow. With more than 1,400 stores across its Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown Supermarkets (New Zealand) and BIG W brands, and fast-growing eCommerce businesses, Woolworths Group is Australia and New Zealand's largest retailer. A top 10 company on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Woolworths Group employs more than 180,000 team members and serves more than 20 million customers a week.
**About the Opportunity**
This role will present the opportunity to build and implement a people plan that responds to the challenges of today, and ensures our talent capability for the future, in a unique and diverse region of the country. In this role, you will work both independently with your portfolio of stores, and collaboratively across our People and State teams. Focus areas include:
- Implementing people strategies that identify, attract, develop and retain talent and are aligned to delivering the broader business strategy
- Developing strong partnerships with the leaders across our business, and coaching them to deliver outcomes to our teams, customers and communities
- Building leadership capability deep into our talent pipeline, leveraging available programs
- Partnering with leaders to enhance team and customer engagement, with a commercial mindset and drive for continuous improvement
- Provide actionable insights to leaders on trends in people data
- Maximise the effectiveness of the people plan, by tailoring its delivery to the unique needs of your portfolio of stores
Further, as part of our agile structure, you'll take the lead on solutions to some of our most dynamic people challenges. Your influence in this space will be felt nationally for our supermarket's division and group-wide in many instances.
**About you**
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We're looking for a values-driven Team Experience Partner with well developed emotional awareness and leadership capabilities to perform in a complex and fast changing retail environment. This role will suit someone with strong HR foundations and excellent communication, stakeholder management and relationship building skills.
You'll be a true People Partner, working closely with your Operations Managers across all areas of the supermarkets business. You'll demonstrate:
- Prior experience in a People Partnering role, or deep experience in key elements of our end-to-end team experience
- Experience in leading and coaching through change initiatives
- Strong relationship management background
- Proven experience in maintaining effectiveness in dynamic situations
- Strong time management and prioritisation skills
- Passion for developing yourself and others