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Successful and sustainable delivery of people, process and system changes across multiple business units and brandsManage projects within the program to time, budget and qualityManage dependencies and project integrationManage and report on project costs, including expenditure and expected future cost outlay to realise benefitsManaging competing demands of business units without the resources to satisfy all simultaneouslyIdentify and proactively manage risks, issues, constraints, assumptions and dependenciesExpeditious escalation of relevant issues via appropriate stakeholders and governance avenues

Build and develop project control systems and processes around the design and delivery of major projects within McPherson’s. Contribute technical and project skills to manage the effective completion of projects, within scope, cost and time management.Develop and implement an integrated project delivery framework.Provide project management and/or project governance of projects to achieve reliable project performance in terms of sophistication, timeliness and quality.Respond to client inquiries about complex technical issues in a way that maximises understanding.Build and maintain strong and effective client relationships through targeted activities.Contribute to providing leadership to employees on the project to ensure cohesion, optimal performance, resourcing, retention and professional development.Develop and implement an integrated project delivery framework.Mitigate risk on projects through implementation of sound audit, Health and Safety, business and financial management practices.Identify and implement profit maximisation and cost management strategies.Input into business development proposals and assist in winning work.

Ability to manage the delivery of complex project activities relating to strategic retail initiatives by support program delivery, project governance and stakeholder management.Manage a team of project employees operating on complex, cross functional solutions with numerous internal and external stakeholders.Prepare project budgets and monitor project financials.Define, source and manage necessary project resources. as well as building effective working relationships.Control project schedules to ensure all programs of work are completed according to the project plan.Effectively control and manage the issues, risks, dependencies and changes in scope.Manage stakeholder expectations through the application of stakeholder and change management disciplines.Build effective working relationships.Develop and manage vendor contracts/agreements with projects under management.

Operations Support - Manage operations working stream, develop and delivery of communication materials to launch and alignment with Food and support modelPost launch - Support project post-launch to enable operational stabilisation, BAU integration eg Sales reporting, BWS Store scorecardProactive monitoring and close out of key issues for successful go live across streams to Support BWS Loyalty Manager to stabilise operationsEngagement and support of BMs and Category teams, contact point for change management, SMEs to have tools to support changes from BWS Merchandise teamAbility to identify critical path activities that will de-risk or accelerate the project timeline or quality and identify new activities (i.e scope) and proactively ensures that they are managedAble to identify the 'helicopter' key issues that senior stakeholders have to address to unblock issues and make decisions. Support program manager by escalating issues urgently for resolution.Develop business case pack with recommended approach, cost and risks for approval Develop a 'fit for purpose' implementation plan (resources, time, cost) for end to end rollout

Deliver successfully, projects in train that support the overall strategy of the business.Ability to affectively manage task effectively and complete project as expected. Capable of team building, motivating, organising resources, manage simultaneously occurring tasks and shifting priorities, control project change and generate maximum team performance in all aspects of project life.Responsible for effective project management and ensuring quality of project deliverables and documentation.

Shrink Management:Develop and automate dynamic models for shrink management by combining variables such as business growth and inflation. Build financial dashboards targeted to state, area and stores identifying the problem trading departments and providing a central report to be able to drive an outcomeModelling financial benefits for shrink initiatives in order to track the successfulness of the initiativeProviding data analysis to commercial teams to create targeted reports for new categories and new store conceptsPrepare annul national and store shrink budgets and monthly board pack reportsWork closely with business review teamsDevelop analytical models to support new shrink initiatives with project teamsPrepare monthly, quarterly, half yearly and yearly shrink result reports for senior managementAnalyse large data sets to identify purchasing habits and customer trends, identifying shrink levels and on-shelf availability. Create production planners for bakery and seafood to control the level of display items and reduce shrinkage.CODB:Creating waste initiative projects to reduce the tonnage of wasteAssisted in creating farmers program to minimise waste to landfillWorked with procurement team to reduce cost of packaging in bakeryPeople:Coach and Mentor Woolworths graduatesCreate a culture of knowledge transfer to eliminate single person dependencies.�