Countdown Supermarkets Looking for Senior Strategy Manager at Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

A unique opportunity

• Diverse, fast-paced, hands-on strategy role for one of New Zealand’s leading companies
• Work alongside an experienced and dynamic team of ex-top-tier-consultants and retail professionals
• Consulting calibre work experience on offer without the extensive travel and work-life tradeoffs
• Join the engine room driving significant retail transformation – great momentum to build on
• Candidates should have 5+ years experience in consulting, investment bank, corporate strategy or an equivalent environment
• Qualified and motivated offshore candidates will be considered

Ready to make an impact?

Woolworths New Zealand is New Zealand’s largest private sector employer, with turnover of $7bn, three banners (Countdown, Freshchoice and Supervalue) and a team of over 18,000 Kiwis serving millions of customers across 250 supermarkets and eStores every week. We are also one of New Zealand’s largest and most innovative digital retailers – leading the NZ market as #1 in online groceries, and operating one of the largest loyalty schemes in the country in Onecard. Our purpose is to make Kiwis’ lives a little better every day.

About the Role | Mō te Tūranga

With one of our team heading moving on to an exciting new role with Woolworths, we are looking for a Senior Strategy Manager to lead and support some of our most important strategic projects. Reporting to the General Manager of Strategy, you’ll work across internal teams ranging from buying to store operations to digital, marketing and more. You will enjoy using your strategic and analytical mindset, interpersonal and leadership skills, and outcome focus to shape and drive solutions through to implementation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Influencing and collaborating with senior stakeholders to identify and shape WWNZ priorities
• Leading and delivering key strategy and transformation analyses and projects, including multiple at a time, including coordination of cross-functional teams, as required
• Structuring problems, defining solutions, extracting and communicating insights from complex analysis
• Injecting strategic and innovative thinking into the issues that the business faces
• Coaching more junior team members to support development and delegation to drive leverage

About You | Mōu

• Genuine all-rounder with a strategic mindset and strong mix of analytical and interpersonal skills
• 5+ years of experience within a top tier strategy consultancy, investment bank, corporate strategy team or equivalent environment
• Outstanding academic record MBA or equivalent preferred
• Experience in leading, scoping and developing strategy as well as delivery, execution, and programme management
• Demonstrable poise, presence and comfort influencing, challenging and working with senior stakeholders
• Experience leading cross-functional teams, ability to adapt styles and work with people at all levels in the organisation
• Independent thinker, self-starter and “can do” – easy to get along with, naturally curious, enjoys getting things done
• Well-established ‘consulting toolkit’ including: structured thinking, presentation, interpersonal and influencing skills, analytics and quantitative modelling, time management
• Diverse consumer market experience and retail experience is an advantage but not essential

What We Can Offer You

• A complex, fast moving, rapidly changing and incredibly diverse set of challenges and opportunities
• An opportunity to make a real difference to Kiwis at a large scale
• A high quality team of colleagues to work with
• 40 hours per week. Base salary $185-195k + vehicle benefit + bonus + shares allocation + benefits.

Working with Woolworths NZ | Me mahi tahi tatou ki Woolworths NZ

Our purpose is to make Kiwis’ lives a little better every day.

We’re friendly, down-to-earth, and energetic – we work hard but we have a great time doing it, and we love what we do. There is plenty of scope for new ideas, lots of room for you to add value, and importantly, you’ll be working with a business that touches the lives of three million New Zealanders a week. We offer a diverse range of career opportunities across our ecosystem.

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Primary Connect

Wholesale Distributors Limited (Super Value & Fresh Choice)

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Come as you are | Nau mai, whakatau mai

We’re an equal opportunity employer and are committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all.

If you’re smart and good at what you do, let’s work together | Me mahi tahi tatou