OPS Support Specialist: Food Services at Woolworths

Introduction

• To support and operationalize a successful and sustainable Foodservice strategy. Drive and execute initiatives to optimize selling opportunities for sustainable profit growth.

Job description

• Support and manage conflicting deadlines for multiple competing project priorities in a timely manner, influencing, directing & instructing on site adjustments & trade offs as required.
• Integrate across Foodservices, RED project managers, site construction & installation personnel as well as stores to determine actions to resolve conflict and/or risk as well as root cause to ensure future conflicts can be proactively anticipated & resolved.
• Support and represent Foodservices at site, small works & progress meetings with RED project managers, construction managers & store and regional teams (pre & post launch).
• Support store & regional teams onsite both pre & post launch (including follow up of snags completion).
• JV partner – support our JV partners in supporting the WW Brand from an operational and experience
• Deliver “ready to merchandise” sites to the Store & Foods teams
• Communicate & conduct cyclical equipment rationalisation cycles with RED equipment & warehouse teams identifying obsolete equipment pieces for disposal & removal from the catalogue.

Minimum requirements

• Food Industry interest, knowledge & understanding
• Five (5) years relevant retail or store management experience in FMCG
• Team player
• Practical & determined
• Willingness & availability to travel
• Operational thinking with strong problem-solving skills & the ability to understand cause of problem & develop workable solutions.
• Relationship Building within teams, the ability to build & maintain constructive relationships by active involvement & integration across all WW BU’s & levels of work.
• Conflict & Risk Mitigation, the ability to effectively support conflicting deadlines for multiple competing project priorities in a timely manner, influencing, directing & instructing adjustments & trade offs as required
• Brand Management, the ability to grow and uphold the values of the Woolworths Brand by delivering on our promises with quality, reliability, and consistency.
• Industry Understanding, the ability to interpret industry processes, influences, and complexities.   
• Communication & influencing skills, the ability to integrate with and influence key stakeholders at all levels.