About Us

In October 2020, Woolworths Group Supply Chain rebranded to become Primary Connect - an end-to-end supply chain partner within Woolworths Group. Our team of more than 8,000 support businesses within Woolworths Group (such as Supermarkets, Countdown and Big W), and over 1,300 commercial customers across the country, to connect communities with the products we need and love.

Becoming Primary Connect gives us the opportunity to keep growing so we can become the next generation supply chain whilst remaining an essential part of Woolworths Group. There has never been a more exciting time to join our team.

Team Planner

• Be part of exciting new structure at Woolworths
• Join our journey in centralizing our workforce
• Assist in driving greater efficiency in workforce planning and scheduling

The Team Planner will provide an efficient, accurate and timely scheduling function to Primary connect and the distribution centre teams through the effective management of the workforce.

This role should work in collaboration with the Operations Manager to plan and transition from current performance to budgeted metrics and then deliver on further customer improvement initiatives to further improve operational performance. This role will be focused on reducing administration for the planning function, ensuring all data in the planning system is correct to provide operations with the most accurate and efficient labour plan to meet the needs of our customers. This role ultimately exists to create the labour plan in compliance with our policies, procedures, budgets and legislation also communicating to the workforce their weekly work requirements for shifts.

Responsibilities:

• Calculate labour planning requirements based on volume forecasts and current work standards at least seven days in advance.
• Implement the weekly labour plan through scheduling permanent employees and casual agency labour based on forecast volumes and work rates ensuring that administration is kept low by having an accurate base roster plan.
• Setup new users into the system and maintain appropriate access for all current users.
• Adjust and modify weekly labour plans based on variances in volume forecast and absenteeism.
• Identify medium to long term skills shortages to be addressed by the training coordinator and create a long-term labour plan based on turnover and volume forecasts to identify when new starters will be required to be recruited.
• Attend and prepare data for weekly planning meeting with site stakeholders and site labour agencies.
• Generate and interpret the plans for the labour system and coordinate daily report, readjusting the plan as necessary.
• Publish all roster plans for the following week by midday Friday inclusive of a formal handover process to operations.
• Ensure that all labour planning plans adhere to EA conditions and EA documented off-sets are achieved.
• Continue to work on and improve the base manning workforce model that optimises labour efficiency across all job functions.
• Efficient onboarding of Primary Connect and Agency workers with new workers provided rosters meeting availability, compliance and maximum rostering.
• Develop strong communication channels with the site teams to ensure forecasted volume required is met.
• Demonstrate evidence of continuous improvement activities.
• Work collaboratively within WFP team to ensure operational consistency across distribution centres

You will have:

• Experience in a complex logistics or scheduling/planning environment.
• Exceptional customer service skills, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritise work, problem solve and work autonomously.
• Demonstrated experience working in a multi-disciplinary environment and able to foster effective working relationships.
• Ability to use initiative and work under pressure.
• Proven experience in managing a workforce including the track record of building capability and communication with workers.
• Demonstrated experience to work in a team, in collaboration with staff within the organisation and with external agencies and agency workers.
• Advanced computer literacy, particularly in Excel/Google Sheets

This position supports our Dandenong and Mulgrave distribution centres and works alongside other team planners on site.

Grow with the Group

Woolworths Group has announced it will be requiring Australian team members to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (subject to medical and religious exemptions).

As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.

We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference.

We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing.

We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most importantly, we're all about creating better experiences – for our customers and for each other.

We’d love to hear from You

If you meet a number of the requirements, but not all, we encourage you to submit your application. You can follow us on LinkedIn or see more opportunities via www.wowcareers.com.au. #LI #work180