Outbound Planning Specialist - Hawthorn East

We’ve been trusted to serve Aussie communities since 1914 and grown to become a top 30-listed on the ASX with over 115,000 team members and a portfolio of iconic brands. At Coles Group, you’ll not only get to make a difference to millions of Aussie lives—you’ll also get to see your impact.

About the team

Supply Chain makes life easier, safer, and more sustainable across our network. Our team works with thousands of trusted businesses every day to bring together our suppliers, distribution centres and stores. By keeping those relationships strong and processes running smoothly, we’re able to maintain the availability and quality of our products for our customers.

About the role

We’re looking for an exceptional Outbound Planning Specialist to join our team. Reporting to the National Outbound Planning Manager. This is an exciting permanent career prospect for a passionate individual working to support continuous improvements. 

You’ll take responsibility for managing Outbound Volumes and Store Delivery rosters across our network of distribution centres (DC) and stores . A large part of this is supporting DC’s and stores to achieve volumes within their capacity to manage.

Other ways you can make an impact include:

• Effectively negotiating across stakeholders in managing rosters and volume changes
• Provide a strategic review of rosters and volumes across network to optimise cost and service working across Stores, Transport, and DCs and communicate roster and volume changes to impacted logistics and store teams
• Forecasting and resolving Outbound demand breaches ahead of time
• Working with Distribution centres and Operations team to maintain balanced Volumes and store delivery roster frequency end to end
• Ensuring Store Operations, logistics and business units are aligned to rosters and volume flow for public holidays and major events in timely manner
• Lead the delivery of specific initiatives to improve the Outbound flow of goods

About you and your skills

• An understanding of end-to-end supply chain, logistics processes and store operations would be beneficial
• A strong problem-solving ability coupled with the capacity to identify areas for continuous improvement
• The ability to work autonomously and in a team environment across all levels of the organisation
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong Stakeholder, time management, organisational and communication skills, along with a strong customer and team focus will also see you excel in this role
• An advanced level of expertise utilising MS Excel to manage and analyse data
• Strong working knowledge of MS office and PowerPoint
• The ability to build relationships and influence key stakeholder groups (internally and externally)
• A familiarity with working in a fast paced and constantly changing environment

What’s in it for you?

• Flexible working options: We know that work is only one part of your life, so we actively encourage a positive work-life balance and provide hybrid working options to help you achieve it.
• Office perks: Take advantage of our gym facility and fitness classes, free parking, BBQ area, mini-Coles supermarket, fooderie hub where you can sample new products before they hit the shelves, school holiday program and so much more when you come in.
• Discounts: Eligible team members receive 5% discount all year round on your Supermarket and Liquor online and in-store purchases. We also offer additional periods of double discount (10%) at various times throughout the year. As well as hotdeals exclusive to team members that translate into additional savings.
• Reward through recognition: Give and receive recognition, linked to our Coles values, through our digital recognition platform ‘mythanks’. You can accumulate points to redeem in the online shop for exciting gifts and electronic gift cards from an extensive range of retailers.
• Opportunities for learning and development: No matter where you start within our diverse business, you’ll have experiences, exposure, and education to satisfy you. Discover and explore a variety of career development programs and job-specific training.
• Paid parental leave: We understand how important your life outside work is and offer permanent team members paid parental leave to support you in balancing work and family.
• Investment in your future: Our annual team member share plan offer allows eligible team members to make regular pre-tax salary sacrifice deductions to purchase Coles Group shares.

About the recruitment process

We’re continuing to build a gender equitable team, and a culture that is just as diverse, inclusive and welcoming as the communities we serve. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe and respectful for our team. We encourage applications from people of all ages, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples), abilities, sexual orientation and gender identities.

We’re happy to adjust our recruitment process to support candidates with disability. For further information and additional contact details visit the ‘Our Recruitment Process’ section of our careers site or email inclusionrecruitment@coles.com.au

Job ID: 157939

Employment Type: Full time