Head of Group Process Excellence

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!

Following our 2021 demerger from Woolworths Group, this is a pivotal moment to join an innovative, ASX-listed company and help us deliver exceptional customer experience.

• Bring your passion and feel the energy
• Architect Our Operational Future

Endeavour Group is seeking a Head of Group Process Excellence to establish and embed the foundational operational model for our entire organisation. This is a critical, enterprise-wide leadership role where you won't just improve processes - you'll design the structures, standards, and ownership that define how Endeavour works at scale.

Reporting into the General Manager - Endeavour Group Optimisation, your mandate is to drive organisational maturity, resilience, and efficiency across our diverse brands (Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, etc.) and highly regulated environment.

Sounds good! Read on.

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

This role acts as a vital bridge between our operational and strategic functions. You will be responsible for:

• Enabling Transformation: Providing governance oversight for all major process changes, ensuring that IT transformation projects, new technology rollouts, and outsourced services are grounded in best-practice process architecture.
• Ensuring Compliance & Resilience: Partnering directly with Audit, Risk, and Compliance functions to embed controls and ensure our processes meet regulatory and internal governance requirements. You will be responsible for assessing and reporting on our process maturity health to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).
• Building Capability: Leading a team of Process Excellence Owners and Analysts, and acting as a senior advisor to General Managers and Executives. You will be the champion of a process excellence culture, driving capability building and engagement across the Group.
• Setting the Standard: Defining and enforcing the enterprise-wide standards for process modelling and the application platforms used (e.g., SAP Signavio or similar tools).
• Own the Framework: Design, implement, and maintain the multi-tiered Enterprise Process Governance Framework and Methodology.
• Establish Accountability: Define and embed clear process ownership, accountability, and reporting across all end-to-end processes Group-wide.
• Drive Improvement: Lead continuous improvement programs to deliver measurable gains in efficiency, cost optimisation, compliance, and risk reduction across BAU and transformation activities.
• Act as a senior advisor to General Managers and executives, providing insights and recommendations to influence enterprise decision-making.

Now let’s talk about you:

The successful candidate will be experienced in building and leading high-performing teams. A strategic thinker who thrives in complex,ambiguous environments and can successfully navigate competing priorities (compliance vs. efficiency). Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of influencing enterprise-level decision, in addition to:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, Engineering, or related discipline
• 10+ years’ experience in Process Governance and Transformation leadership roles, ideally within large, highly regulated industries (Retail, FMCG, Hospitality experience is a bonus).
• Proven success establishing and maintaining a formal Process Governance framework across an entire enterprise.
• Certification in Lean Six Sigma (or an equivalent, globally recognized process improvement methodology).
• Strong expertise in SAP Signavio or similar market-leading process management platforms.
• Demonstrated capability with multiple industry-standard process modelling frameworks (BPML, BPMN 2.0, EPC, ArchiMate, UML, APQC PCF).

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.

#WeAreTogetherCreators #ComeAsYouAre #DreamBig #FeelTheEnergy #LeaveYourMark #EndeavourGroup