Functional Lead - Stores

Let’s create a more sociable future together

At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia. If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you!

• Bring your passion and feel the energy
• Business partner our Project Managers

Endeavour Group demerged from Woolworths in 2021 and as part of the transition is taking the opportunity to transform how we operate as an independent business and establish supporting technology via the One Endeavour Transformation Program.

The Functional Lead - Stores plays a critical role in designing and implementing robust business solutions for the Stores teams. Collaborating closely with stakeholder groups, they engage in discussions to identify and understand their needs and requirements. By doing so, they ensure that the developed solutions align seamlessly with the business objectives and address real-world challenges.

The Functional Lead - Stores is responsible for developing and implementing the processes, templates, change and tracking methods to ensure the quality, consistency, and reliability of deliverables produced by the Functional team.    Playing a key role in project assurance, The Functional Lead - Stores, collaborates closely with Project Manages to ensure that projects are properly aligned with all Endeavour check lists and stage gates. The Functional Lead - Stores has the maturity and experience to evaluate what is needed to inform technical specifications and decision making, and to identify the best methods for documenting and sharing critical insights with various stakeholders, ensuring clarity and alignment across teams.

Sound good? Read on.

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

• Develop, review and govern functional specifications and documents that define the desired outcome of system enhancements/developments
• Work with external vendors to provide the most effective and efficient solution to meet the business needs
• Proactively engage with stakeholder groups to understand business needs and analyse and translate business needs into solutions 
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify opportunities for process improvement and system enhancements.
• Present analysis and critical insights to Tech and non-Tech stakeholder groups to drive decision making and alignment
• Lead the functional analysis work in the design, development, and implementation of retail solutions.
• Work closely with the Project team to ensure a smooth transition of the Stores solution to Operations.
• Provide continuous improvement and deliver upgrades/projects across the stores application landscape
• Assist with governance and release of system changes to production
• Oversee the testing process to ensure that solutions meet business requirements and are free of defects.
• Facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT) and gather stakeholder feedback for continuous improvement.
• Develop training materials and conduct sessions for end-users to ensure effective adoption of new solutions.
• Provide ongoing support and guidance to users post-implementation.

Now let’s talk about you

• Expert and demonstrated experience in Retail Store applications  
• Ability to understand, isolate and interpret business needs and develop appropriate technical solutions.  
• Migration, Troubleshooting experience.
• 2-5 years IT BA experience
• Experienced with regression testing
• Highly organised and efficient, with strong attention to detail
• Creates partnerships and teamwork; applies broad business perspective; makes effective decisions 
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, demonstrates a logical approach to problem solving 
• Ability to work both independently and as an effective team member within a complex and fast paced environment 
• Can demonstrate strong communication, facilitation, negotiating, conflict resolution and influencing skills

The benefits are good too! 

• We offer flexible working in every sense
• An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs
• Monthly meeting-free days 
• Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it’s our first priority. You will have 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.

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

We are together creators

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, 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. We’re 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.  

We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.

You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or at endeavourgroupcareers.com.au.

Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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