Current Openings at Woolworths

Introduction

• A dynamic team player is required in our Produce department to drive our competitive edge through the delivery of quality, safety, sustainability, availability, and innovation.

Job description

• Brand integrity and product safety,
• Lead and execute the implementation of Woolworths Vision Zero as part of the regenerative farming strategy
• FFF support to our suppliers/ farmers through knowledge sharing and advice
• Create and trial new, innovative Integrated Pest Management solutions and innovative agricultural practices that meet customer and brand expectations
• Provide input and drive implementation of category strategies supporting consistent product availability by focusing on product and supplier selection regionally.
• Manage and monitor technical function in order to meet departmental KPI's,
• Ensure suppliers provide quality products consistently and according to Woolworths' standards,
• Educate, inform, and share knowledge/information with category members, suppliers, and the organisation appropriately,
• Ensure Woolworths policies and guidelines meet legal agricultural requirements and commit to setting standards with suppliers.     
• Build customer trust by ensuring foods safety, quality, and consistency of products, and preventing re-occurrence of non-compliance.
• Commit to continuous professional growth and support the training and development of colleagues.

Minimum requirements

• Minimum BSc Agriculture with relevant subjects, including entomology, soil science, plant pathology, and agricultural science, horticulture
• Relevant experience in the produce industry, with specific focus on agronomy and regenerative farming
• Minimum 8- 10 years' experience in the produce industry
• Experience in retail or corporate environments and teamwork is advantageous
• Strong quality-oriented mindset.
• Strategic development and planning skills
• Confident team leader
• Business acumen, judgement and problem-solving
• Strong Project management skills
• Networking, influencing and communication skills within the produce industry
• Assertive communication and conflict handling skills
• Pro-active, innovative, and entrepreneurial
• Flexible with ability to travel extensively
• Ability to work effectively in a stressful environment

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Introduction

• Responsible for leading the co-ordination of the end to end category strategy by inspiring the team in the co creation and execution of both short term tactical and long term strategy to ensure the delivery of sustainable profit growth and operational excellence while living the woolies values.

Job description

• Interprets and translates strategy into commercially viable operating plans to ensure delivery of operational excellence
• Lead the co-creation of the strategy by gathering input from the teams, market and partners
• Data Intelligence with a honed ability to read, analyse, interpret & communicate data insights to inform and set strategies or tactical direction to create business opportunities 
• Establish and execute long term objectives across commercial, customer and supplier strategy
• Integrates and aligns category assessments with the Foods strategy to create and deliver 3 year operating plans
• Understands market share and supplier inputs to create leading industry operating plans and innovation
• Co-ordinate category assessment program across the Matrix Team
• Drive and enable profitable growth of the Category
• Conducts analyses and tracking of management accounts
• Accountable for the oversight and management of KPIs to ensure maximum sales, profitability and market share accretion at a product group level
• Deploy tactical strategies to manage monthly performance against KPI's at product group level
• Monitors financial performance of the business/ department and proactively able to identify and build risk mitigation plans to drive business performance
• Lead, mentor and support the matrix team to deliver on strategic outcomes
• Effective management and co-ordination team engagements
• Ability to effectively communicate and make decisions taking into consideration multiple, diverse view points 
• Manage and co-ordinate rhythm and pace of category by inspiring a culture within the teams to create and sustain momentum
• Identify potential issues and mitigate by having difficult conversations in order to ensure the delivery of business standards and values
• Manages mutually beneficial stakeholder relationships and ensures stakeholders execute and deliver on strategy
• Facilitates a cross functional supplier base including other stakeholders to build mutually beneficial objectives
• Manages various stakeholders towards the execution and delivery of business projects and initiatives
• Ensures gathering and consolidation of pertinent information from various stakeholders within reasonable timeframes
• Creates, builds & maintains sustainable, mutually beneficial supplier relationships based on shared values & an aspirational product offering that is commercially viable.
• Creates well defined and articulated supplier strategy with clear objectives and transformation plans
• Identifies suppliers that are aligned to the business' values and can fulfill current gaps

Minimum requirements

• Leading People 
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Dynamic leadership and adaptability
• Visionary Merchant
• Data Intelligence 
• Commercial Acumen
• Customer Obsessed
• Passionate Foodie
• Project Mindset
• Retail Industry Knowledge
• Supplier Relationship Management
• Formal Qualification needed/ Relevant diploma/degree
• Minimum 8-10 years’ experience
• Retail/FMCG experience required
• Buying experience required
• Additional requirements (tool of trade/systems knowledge)
• International travel
• Buying systems experience
• MS suite proficiency
• Additional knowledge/ experience needed to fulfill role; work conditions (such as shift work, international travel required)
• Personal Care, H&C experience will be advantageous 
• 3-5 years managing of a team/leading people experience required

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Introduction

• At Woolies we are on a mission to maintain and develop a high-performing cyber security function in support of a complex business undergoing digital transformation. We are looking for a senior leader in the cybersecurity team to take responsibility for scaling information and cyber security across the Woolworths South Africa business. The focus is on business-related security capabilities including access management, security training and culture, third party and ecosystem security, and data security and protection. This role reports to the CISO and is a leadership role requiring experience in security risk management, analysis and advisory

Job description

PEOPLE

• Enhancing cyber intellectual capital: Leadership and management of the business information security team covering talent development and performance management.
• Building culture and teaming: Management of internal partnerships for execution, including context setting, skills transfer, and up-skilling.
• Management of key external security partner and service relationships.
• Fostering business and IT relationships to define requirements in the context of business risk.

PROCESS

• Work closely with Cyber Delivery Management, Architecture and Engineering capabilities to provide proactive advisory services to IT and business stakeholders.
• Take responsibility for core capabilities of access management, data security, third party security and awareness training, bridging the gap between business and cyber technical functions.
• Work with the SOC to manage threat and vulnerability management.
• Work with other cybersecurity team leaders, the CISO, and other key stakeholders to define and drive a threat-informed and risk-based cyber security strategy.
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of cyber security processes and ways of working.
• Translate strategic security operational requirements into practical solutions and drive implementation.
• Contribute to the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of Cyber and Information Security Policies, Standards, Procedures and Guidelines.
• Remain aware of global security industry trends and influence the strategy accordingly.
• Manage forecasts and budgets.

CUSTOMER

• Understand Cyber, IT and Business strategies and contribute to the creation and delivery of the annual cyber security roadmap and execution with a specific focus on business information security and advisory.
• Plan and prioritize projects and workload to deliver to the roadmap.
• Provide updates, context and feedback to relevant stakeholders.
• Build close relationships with business and IT stakeholders to scale security and to drive the required level of controls over core assets.

Minimum requirements

• 8 years relevant experience in the cyber and information security discipline.
• 4-year IT qualification.
• Demonstrable experience in leading a specialised cybersecurity team within a large environment.
• Experience with security operations tools, frameworks, practices, and processes.
• Industry certifications (e.g. CISA, CISM, CISSP).
• Resiliency, determination, and pragmatism.
• May be required to assist outside of working hours

ADDITIONAL CRITERIA

• Comfortable giving presentations and training.
• People leadership experience is advantageous.
• Good report and technical writing skills.
• Working knowledge of PCI-DSS.
• Practical experience with the industry frameworks (e.g. CIS and COBIT).
• Hands-on technical security experience is highly advantageous.

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Introduction

• At Woolies we are on a mission to maintain and develop a high-performing cybersecurity function in support of a complex business undergoing digital transformation. We are looking for a senior leader in the cybersecurity team to take responsibility for cybersecurity operations, specifically purple teaming, across Woolworths South Africa. The objective is to continue building and enhancing the function with a strong focus on people development while leveraging modern technology solutions and specialist third parties to continually improve security posture through threat detection, response and continual control validation. This role reports to the CISO and is a leadership role requiring demonstrable experience in leading blue and/or red teams, with preference towards cybersecurity operations management and SOC experience.

Job description
PEOPLE

• Enhancing cyber intellectual capital: Leadership and management of the cybersecurity SOC/purple team covering talent development and performance management.
• Building culture and teaming: Management of internal partnerships for execution, including context setting, skills transfer, and up-skilling.
• Management of key external security partner and service relationships (e.g. MSSP).

PROCESS

• Take responsibility for cybersecurity operations covering offence and defence: threat detection, incident response operations, threat hunting, and red teaming.
• Enhance SOC capabilities through continual improvement of quality, visibility, coverage and effectiveness.
• Work with other cybersecurity team leaders, the CISO, and other key stakeholders, to define and drive a threat-informed and risk-based cyber security strategy.
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of cyber security operations, processes and ways of working.
• Enhance purple teaming processes with the philosophy of continual threat identification and continual control improvement and validation.
• Translate strategic security operational requirements into practical solutions and drive implementation.
• Leverage modern technology and AI capabilities to enhance operations.
• Contribute to the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of Cyber and Information Security Policies, Standards, Procedures and Guidelines.
• Remain aware of global security industry trends and influence the strategy accordingly.
• Define and maintain SOC playbooks.
• Manage forecasts and budgets. 

CUSTOMER

• Understand Cyber, IT and Business strategies and contribute to the creation and delivery of the annual cybersecurity roadmap and execution with a specific focus on purple teaming.
• Plan and prioritize projects and workload to deliver to the roadmap.
• Provide updates, context and feedback to relevant stakeholders.
• Minimum requirements
• 12 years relevant experience in the cyber and information security discipline.
• 5 years experience in people leadership.
• 3-year IT qualification.
• Demonstrable experience in leading a specialised cybersecurity team within a large environment.
• Experience with security operations tools, frameworks, practices, and processes.
• Resiliency, determination, and pragmatism.
• May be required to assist outside of working hours.

ADDITIONAL CRITERIA

• Experience in both red and blue teaming is advantageous, specifically response operations.
• Experience in building and maturing SOC capabilities, including automation.
• Practical experience with adversarial frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Working knowledge of PCI-DSS.
• Post-graduate degree, industry certifications and community/lab involvement are advantageous.

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Introduction

• At Woolies we are on a mission to maintain and develop a high-performing cybersecurity function in support of a complex business undergoing digital transformation. We are looking for a senior leader in the cybersecurity team to take responsibility for cybersecurity architecture and engineering across Woolworths South Africa. This role leads a small technical team that designs, maintains and enhances the security technology stack with a zero-trust philosophy, supporting the key principles of ‘security by design and default’, and leverages modern technology and AI capabilities. This function enables security and technology teams through both change and operations. This is a highly technical role that reports to the CISO and requires demonstrable experience in security design, engineering and threat modelling.

Job description
PEOPLE

• Enhancing cyber intellectual capital: Leadership and management of the cybersecurity architecture and engineering team covering talent development and performance management.
• Building culture and teaming: Management of internal partnerships for execution, including context setting, skills transfer, and up-skilling.
• Management of key external security partner and service relationships.

PROCESS - ARCHITECTURE

• Maintain the cybersecurity architecture covering the current and future technology landscape. Identify solutions to enhance our architecture (e.g. improve visibility, reduce noise, automate or consolidate).
• Contribute to Business Case formulation with the relevant security input – advisory, standards and security patterns.
• Support proactive threat modelling with other cyber and technology stakeholders.
• Own cybersecurity Enterprise Architecture (EA) principles and drive adoption through EA and across the business.
• Make security architectural information easily accessible and self-service to support scale, speed and security by design.
• Proactively identify security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and provide required changes or enhancements. Document these as relevant for re-use.
• Remain aware of global security industry trends and translate these into meaningful contributions to the cybersecurity strategy, principles and ways of working.

PROCESS – SECURITY ENGINEERING

• Take responsibility for the cybersecurity technology landscape across Woolworths.
• Lead a small team of engineers to improve cyber technology in support of the SOC and Business Enablement capabilities with a focus on continual identification of threats and validation of controls, and in support of key principles such as visibility, coverage and quality.
• Enhance technology solutions to automate and streamline operations.
• Take responsibility for the infrastructure of identified cybersecurity tools – maintain, enhance, secure and upgrade where relevant.
• Work with the SOC to configure (including coding and scripting) SOC tools and alerts.

PROCESS - BOTH

• Contribute to the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of Cyber and Information Security Policies, Standards, Procedures and Guidelines.
• Manage forecasts and budgets.

CUSTOMER

• Understand Cyber, IT and Business strategies and contribute to the creation and delivery of the annual cybersecurity roadmap and execution with a specific focus on security architecture and engineering disciplines.
• Plan and prioritize projects and workload to deliver to the roadmap.
• Provide updates, context and feedback to relevant stakeholders.

Minimum requirements

• 12 years relevant experience in the cyber and information security discipline.
• 5 years experience in security engineering.
• 2 years experience in security architecture.
• 2 years experience in people leadership.
• 4-year IT qualification.
• Demonstrable experience in leading a specialised cybersecurity team within a large environment.
• Experience with security operations tools, frameworks, practices, and processes.
• Industry certifications (e.g. Palo, Google, AWS, Qualys).
• Resiliency, determination, and pragmatism.
• May be required to assist outside of working hours.

 ADDITIONAL CRITERIA

• Experience in programming and scripting is highly advantageous.
• Experience in building and maturing SOC capabilities is advantageous.
• Experience in cloud security architecture and technologies.
• Experience with automation and ML/AI capabilities.
• Practical experience with adversarial frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.

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Introduction

• To excite and serve our customers delicious, freshly prepared deli food and baked goods  
• Ensure customers are delighted and connected with at the Kitchen and Bakery counters.  
• Greet, chat to educate on our products and get to know our customers.  
• Prepare the various Kitchen and Bakery ranges to the high Woolies standard to keep our customers coming back for more.  
• Be proud of the counter and what is displayed, making sure all disciplines and food hygiene standards are met and exceeded.  
• Keep your records up to date and ensure all the necessary documents are accurately completed so we can maintain the high standards our customer's trust.

Qualifications and Technical knowledge and skills:

•  You enjoy chatting to customers  
• You love the Woolies food quality and are excited to share this with customers.  
• Hygiene is very important to you.  
• You have had some exposure to the Kitchen and Bakery counters (interactive) and you know you can add value to these areas.

Behavioral competencies Essential  

• You enjoy people.  
• You enjoy preparing food.  
• You are ok with following set instructions and procedures.  
• You know that food hygiene is very important.

Other  

• Be available and flexible to work different shifts and across the store

Job description

• To excite and serve our customers delicious, freshly prepared deli food and baked goods

Minimum requirements

• You enjoy chatting to customers
• You love the Woolies food quality and are excited to share this with customers.
• Hygiene is very important to you.
• You have had some exposure to the Kitchen and Bakery counters (interactive) and you know you can add value to these areas.  

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Introduction
MAIN PURPOSE

• To attract and grow our customer base, through a customer facing or supportive role and in doing so increase the market share, turnover and profitability. To provide exceptional customer service by ensuring customer care, a world class shopping experience for our customers, to play a role in minimising risk and increasing profitability in your store.

Job description
KEY OUTCOMES

• Provide exceptional customer service to internal and external customers
• Recruit, select, manage and develop people to meet competence requirements
• Participate in team to ensure achievement of department and store goals
• Manage implementation and integration of new initiatives to achieve project goals
• Participate in general store operational duties
• Supervise and coach staff to meet competence requirements

Job specific responsibilities as per Job Profile (dependant on position)

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Passion for the Customer – establish lifelong relationships with our customers
• Passion for Retail and Selling
• ‘Living the Brand’ : Personal leadership and attitude to work i.e. ‘the difference’ 
• Versatile communication skills
• Proven team leadership skills
• Action and results orientated
• Assertive and proactive
• Problem solving and decision making skills
• Computer Literacy skills
• Commercial acumen and numeracy
• Attention to detail
• Creative and innovative and keeps up to date on retail trends

Minimum requirements

• Entry Requirement: Grade 11 or NQF3 completed, and Grade 12 will be advantageous
• Retail and or Business Management Diploma would be advantagous
• 3-5 years role experience as a Clothing Department Manager in Retail
• Retail experience highly advantages
• Team Management would be advantages
• Leadership and Management experience would be advantageous
• Ability to work shifts that meet operational requirements

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Introduction
MAIN PURPOSE

• To attract and grow our customer base, through a customer facing or supportive role and in doing so increase the market share, turnover and profitability. To provide exceptional customer service by ensuring customer care, a world class shopping experience for our customers, to play a role in minimising risk and increasing profitability in your store.

Job description
KEY OUTCOMES

• Provide exceptional customer service to internal and external customers
• Recruit, select, manage and develop people to meet competence requirements
• Participate in team to ensure achievement of department and store goals
• Manage implementation and integration of new initiatives to achieve project goals
• Participate in general store operational duties
• Supervise and coach staff to meet competence requirements

Job specific responsibilities as per Job Profile (dependant on position)

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Passion for the Customer – establish lifelong relationships with our customers
• Passion for Retail and Selling
• ‘Living the Brand’ : Personal leadership and attitude to work i.e. ‘the difference’ 
• Versatile communication skills
• Proven team leadership skills
• Action and results orientated
• Assertive and proactive
• Problem solving and decision making skills
• Computer Literacy skills
• Commercial acumen and numeracy
• Attention to detail
• Creative and innovative and keeps up to date on retail trends

Minimum requirements

• Entry Requirement: Grade 11 or NQF3 completed, and Grade 12 will be advantageous
• Retail and or Business Management Diploma would be advantagous
• 3-5 years role experience as a Clothing Department Manager in Retail
• Retail experience highly advantages
• Team Management would be advantages
• Leadership and Management experience would be advantageous
• Ability to work shifts that meet operational requirements