Workforce Planning and Productivity Manager

• Bring your passion and feel the energy
• High-Impact Strategic & Commercial Ownership
• Enterprise Change Leadership & Transformation

We are seeking a Workforce Planning & Productivity Manager to join our team. Reporting to the Head of Retail Workforce Planning and Labour Optimisation you will be the driving execution and change management engine that translates corporate workforce strategy into store-level realityensuring our labour investment aligns strategically with customer demand commercial performance and compliance obligations.

In this role youll bridge the gap between complex transformation and daily store operations. You will maintain the integrity of engineered labour standards deliver data-driven bottom-up wage budgets and lead targeted automation centralisation and productivity initiatives that directly optimize EBIT across Dan Murphys and BWS.

Sound good Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

• Operationalise our 35 year retail labour strategy and deploy complex network-wide productivity streams across 1650 sites.
• Own end-to-end development of data-driven bottom-up wage budgets and wage-to-sales forecasting models. Constructively challenge retail business units to align wage outcomes with Enterprise Agreements and EBIT goals.
• Maintain and optimise engineered labour standards and productivity databases alongside internal and external technology partners.
• Conceptualise operational analytics identify structural labour mix opportunities and track productivity overlays.
• Partner with IT and Transformation teams to ensure WFM solutions (e.g. UKG) accurately reflect live business processes and demand-driven scheduling principles.
• Lead coach and develop a specialized team (including Process Engineering and Rostering Leads). Act as the primary enterprise coach to uplift store-based capability and demand-led rostering practices nationally.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across Retail Operations Finance and Transformation while guiding senior retail leaders through operating model redesigns

Qualifications :

Now lets talk about you: 

You are analytically minded deeply curious and pragmatic - balancing sophisticated financial modelling with the daily realities of a fast-paced retail environment. Composed under pressure you are passionate about protecting store team experiences compliance and Voice of Customer (VoC) metrics.

Essential Criteria:

• Proven track record leading a Workforce Planning function in a large multi-site retail service or customer-facing organisation.
• Demonstrated history of managing coaching and developing specialist teams and driving project outcomes.
• Specialist skills in industrial engineering methodologies (e.g. MOST activity sampling time study) paired with strong financial acumen and bottom-up wage budgeting experience.
• Proficient with enterprise WFM systems (e.g. UKG) and ability to interpret Enterprise Agreements Awards and Fair Work operational compliance.
• Strong analytical and data-modelling skills.
• Tertiary qualifications in Industrial Engineering Mathematics Statistics or Business.
• Willingness to travel interstate and intrastate as needed.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience in transformation/project environments and matrix organisations.
• Prior experience executing large-scale WFM process and system rollouts with external business suppliers.

The benefits are good too! 

• An exclusive discount card for our ALH Hotels pubs & accommodation BWS Dan Murphys and other Endeavour Group brands. Through our partnership with Woolworths youll also enjoy discounts at Woolies supermarkets and BIG W 
• As a valued member of the team your health and wellbeing is our top priority. You will have access to a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical mental and financial wellbeing
• Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea yourself and your career. This is just the start so dream big
• Find out more about our range of benefits and discounts here

At Endeavour we value being a workplace where everyones welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all) we encourage you to apply.

Additional Information :

We are together creators

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphys BWS ALH Hotels Pinnacle Drinks and more Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun create more opportunities and score a lot more goals. Were serious about creating a safe inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key and flexibility is part of how we roll.  

Were all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and youre close-enough on the requirements reach out wed love to hear from you.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time