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About Woolworths Group

Woolworths Group is one of Australia and New Zealand’s leading retail groups, supporting well-known brands such as Woolworths, Big W and Countdown. They are comprised of over 200,000 bright minds, passionate hearts, and unique perspectives, and are connected by a shared Purpose – ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’ It is that Purpose that fuels their ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments, and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week.

Your role

Woolworths Food Company is a platform of businesses within Woolworths Group. The businesses are Woolworths Food Company Retail (WFCR), Australia Grocery Wholesalers, Greenstock and Refresh within Woolworths Group. In WFCR, they partner with dynamic suppliers to develop a range of Woolworths Own Brand and exclusive brand products, which meet the ongoing and changing needs of Woolworths customers. They have a deep passion for their quality products and the value they bring to customers. Their integrated teams work closely with suppliers and partners to deliver the best balance of quality, value, taste, nutrition, and innovation for their customers.

As a Product Development Graduate at the Norwest Support Office, you will develop a broad range of skills and capabilities across the end-to-end WFC business, that will enable you to progress in the future to becoming a Product Developer and a key asset within WFC. You will work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the products meet the sustainability, quality and organoleptic standards. You will be responsible for planning the product development pipeline and executing projects such as understanding and applying the Product Development process, applying the directional frameworks and also supporting the product development leads to research, scope, create, source and deliver a product end-to-end.

You will be exposed to a number of areas linked to the following learning outcomes:

• Creating and informing an own brand-tiered product strategy
• Developing Own Brand products of the highest quality that customers love
• Developing Own Brand Products in line with the Product Development Process
• Developing Own Brand Products in line with the Brand Guidelines and Directional Frameworks

Training & development

As a Product Development Graduate, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia where you will gain valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network. You will work in a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, where the possibilities for what you can achieve are endless.

Benefits

As part of the Product Development Graduate, you will experience the following benefits:

• Team discounts across a range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work
• A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network
• A progressive and flexible ‘work from anywhere' policy that gives you the opportunity to harmonise work, life and your wellbeing
• Parental Leave provisions and various leave types, including but not limited to Study Leave and Sports Representation Leave

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Work-life balance

At Woolworths Group, they provide flexibility and work-life balance policies that will help you thrive, as well as parental leave provisions and various leave types, including but not limited to study leave and sports representation leave. You will also be given access to Sonder, which provides free, confidential, 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological, or physical support for team members and their families. 

Company culture

Woolworths Group embraces diversity of thought and loves to take on challenges with a pragmatic and innovative approach. Their culture thrives on mutual respect, care, curiosity, openness, and a proactive attitude. They continually seek ways to pair, collaborate, support, and learn from each other as a team! Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising their purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. They recognise the value their team’s diversity brings to the business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich the group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. 

About you

• You are a smart, broad and curious thinker who will ask the right questions, root causes of the issues, and develop value-adding insights and perspectives
• You will be a proactive team member, who will bring ideas and suggestions to the table based on strategic and commercial insight
• Ability to partner horizontally across WFC, understanding how to be agile and bridge differences to enable cooperation at all levels
• Good communicator, able to effectively create “buy in” to new ideas and convince others of the need for change as required with poise, logic and shared understanding
• Ability to negotiate and influence to achieve successful outcomes for customers, teams and the business

Source

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• woolworthsgroup.com.au/au/en/about-us.html
• grads.woolworths.com.au/
• facebook.com