Transformation Opportunities

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Join The Warehouse Group’s core Transformation Office in Auckland, a full-time hybrid role, to shape enterprise level change across its iconic brands, reporting to the GM Transformation and Delivery. These are enterprise enablement roles focused on governance, planning, reporting and delivery assurance, not traditional delivery ownership. You will craft integrated planning across portfolios, manage dependencies and capacity, and provide evidence based insights to senior leaders while guiding trade-off decisions. When applying, tailor your resume to demonstrate enterprise portfolio planning, governance, data quality and stakeholder facilitation. Show concrete examples of turning ambiguity into actionable recommendations, delivering executive dashboards, and influencing senior decisions. Highlight humble, hungry, smart leadership with a customer mindset, and apply now.

Company Description

Join a Team Built for Transformation

We’re building the next chapter of transformation at The Warehouse Group.

Join our Group Transformation Office and help shape and deliver enterprise-wide change across our iconic brands. You’ll work alongside senior leaders and high-performing teams to turn strategy into action - simplifying how we operate, unlocking value, and creating better experiences for our customers and team members.

These are rare opportunities to help build a new enterprise capability from the ground up. You'll work across business, technology, finance and delivery teams, influencing how priorities are sequenced, how risks and dependencies are managed, and how progress is communicated to senior leaders.

So if you're motivated by complex challenges, meaningful work and the opportunity to shape the future of one of New Zealand’s largest retail groups we’d love to hear from you.The Warehouse Group looks after some of Aotearoa’s most iconic brands including The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, and Noel Leeming. Our brands mean a lot to us and our customers because we’re always working to deliver relevant and exciting customer experiences to New Zealanders. 

Job Description

The roles:

Reporting into the GM Transformation and Delivery, we have appointed several key positions and, are now looking to complete the core Transformation Office team in the following areas:

Enterprise Portfolio and Integrated Planning Manager

Lead the enterprise planning and sequencing cadence across The Warehouse Group's transformation priorities. Bring together business, technology, finance, delivery, dependency and capacity inputs to develop integrated planning scenarios, roadmap views and trade-off recommendations that support enterprise decision-making.

Governance, Reporting & Delivery Assurance Manager

Lead the governance, reporting and delivery assurance disciplines that underpin enterprise transformation. Establish governance rhythms, executive reporting, delivery confidence assessments and escalation pathways that provide leaders with a trusted and evidence-based view of progress, risks, issues and decisions.

Enterprise interdependency, Capacity & Capability Manager

Maintain the enterprise-wide view of dependencies, capacity constraints, capability gaps and feasibility risks. Provide the evidence needed to assess what can realistically be delivered and support informed sequencing, prioritisation and governance decisions.

Reporting and Portfolio Analyst

Own portfolio reporting, dashboards, data quality, metrics and trend analysis across the Transformation Office. Consolidate information from across the portfolio to provide meaningful insights that support governance, planning, delivery confidence and executive decision-making.

Qualifications

We're looking for experienced transformation, portfolio, governance, planning and reporting professionals who have worked successfully within complex enterprise environments.

These are not traditional delivery ownership roles. They are enterprise enablement roles that create the structure, insight, governance and challenge needed to help delivery teams and business owners succeed.

You'll thrive in this environment if you:

• Enjoy working with complexity, ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Can turn incomplete or conflicting information into clear insights and recommendations.
• Are comfortable influencing senior stakeholders and facilitating difficult trade-off conversations.
• Have strong analytical judgement and a pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Can build credibility through evidence-based thinking and communication.

Depending on the role, you may bring experience in:

• Enterprise portfolio planning, integrated planning or large-scale programme planning.
• PMO, EPMO, governance or delivery assurance environments.
• Enterprise transformation, portfolio or programme management.
• Reporting, analytics, insights and performance measurement.
• Capacity, capability or dependency management.
• Stakeholder engagement, facilitation, influencing and negotiation.

Most importantly, you’ll embody the leadership qualities that define success at TWG - being humble, hungry and smart, coupled with a strong customer mindset.

Additional Information

The scope and profile of these roles are genuinely rare. You will have the opportunity to influence enterprise-wide decisions, work alongside senior leaders and help establish a capability that will shape how transformation is delivered across The Warehouse Group for years to come.

When you join us, we offer a range of benefits that work for you, your lifestyle, and your career, which include:

• Discounts across our brands
• Birthday leave
• Free parking at our Northshore support office
• We value collaboration, connection & flexibility – with 1 day (Friday) WFH
• Onsite gym and café at our Northcote support office
• A range of wellbeing support and development opportunities

If you're looking for an opportunity to make a lasting impact and help build a new enterprise capability from the ground up, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now.