Merchandise Operations Specialist

Schedule Monday: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM Tuesday: 6:00 AM – 2:30 PM Wednesday: 6:00 AM – 2:30 PM Thursday: 6:00 AM – 2:30 PM Sunday: 2:00 PM – 10:30 PM Responsibilities Manage and maintain process flow for an assigned workstream. Collaborate closely with your Team Leader and 'swarm' to ensure efficiency. Ensure uninterrupted process completion and strict adherence to established guidelines. What you'll do Lead Operational Excellence: Ensure accurate and timely completion of routines, maintain food safety/SF5 compliance, and oversee production standards for fresh items. Drive Visual Merchandising: Lead product presentation, ensuring best quality availability, high standards for displays (off-locations, promotions), facings, markdowns, and out-of-date product removal. Champion Team Development: Lead your "swarm" in correct task completion, provide crucial on-job training and coaching, and actively foster a safe and healthy work environment. Proactively Resolve Issues: Timely elevate process issues to the Function Lead and conduct health checks to continuously identify and implement functional improvements. Provide Store-Wide Leadership: Step up as Acting Store Manager on scheduled shifts and actively participate in "Better Together" initiatives to boost team collaboration. What you’ll bring Process Excellence & Learning: Demonstrate a strong ability in process excellence and a commitment to continuous learning. Collaborative Partnerships: Excel at building and maintaining collaborative partnerships with other functions and stakeholders. Effective Team Leadership: Effectively lead teams, delegating tasks, monitoring progress, coaching, providing feedback, and motivating members. Compliance Expertise & Communication: Expert in compliance within your function and possess exceptional communication skills to clearly articulate tasks and standards. Values-Aligned Behavior: Actions consistently align with company values. The ability to work four weekend shifts per month and at least one evening each week. What you'll experience Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work. Access to Sonder. Sonder provides free confidential 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological or physical support for team members and their families. A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network. Everyone belongs Woolworths Group – We believe that diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr