Service Operations Lead - Hawthorn East

We’ve been proudly serving Australian communities since 1914 and have grown to become a top 30-listed company on the ASX with a portfolio of iconic homegrown brands. At the heart of our continued success is over 115,000 team members working across the country, all contributing to bringing our customers smiles. You’ll not only get to see your work make a difference, you’ll be part of a team working together to help Australians eat and live better every day.

About the team

Our Technology team is the backbone of the business, building and maintaining the information technology infrastructure that support Coles Group. As a part of the Technology team, you get the opportunity to work through complex, challenging, meaningful problems using large data sets and new technologies to expand your skills and experience.

About the team 

As a part of the Technology team, you get the opportunity to work through complex, challenging, meaningful problems using new technologies to expand your skills and experience.
As part of the broader Technology team, our Supply Chain Replenishment & Forecasting team partners with the business to deliver efficiency and innovation for Coles as the leading retail supply chain network in Australia. 

We deliver value through quality technology solutions that simplify our Supply Chain operations. Our domain includes a range of applications used by our distribution and replenishment team members daily, including business critical applications. 

About the role

The Service Operations Lead is responsible for leading the day-to-day delivery, monitoring, and optimisation of technology services that support the Group’s retail operations across supermarkets, liquor, and group platforms. 

The role ensures services are stable, reliable, and aligned with service level expectations and business priorities. Reporting to the Group Service Manager, the Service Operations Lead oversees key operational processes — including incident, problem, and change management — ensuring timely resolution of issues to minimise disruption to business operations. 

Working closely with engineering, product, and vendor teams, the role coordinates technical support activities, monitors service performance, and drives continuous improvement to enhance service quality and availability

About you and your skills

•    Ability to lead and oversee daily operational performance across critical retail technology services. Ensure IT Service Management processes like incident, problem, and change management processes are executed effectively.
•    Adept at taking the lead in major incidents within your portfolio and coordinate a cross-functional response, ensuring proper notification to management and service points of contact.
•    Be available on-call on a roster basis to support critical service incidents after hours. 
•    Drive post-incident reviews and ensure root cause analysis and preventive actions are implemented.
•    Ensure the operational outcomes of the portfolio of services under your managements are meeting the business needs and take necessary action to remediate any deviation from expectation.
•    Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills. Internal and external stakeholder management, including managing vendors to ensure effective delivery of services.
•    Proven experience in technology or operations delivery within large, complex organisations. 
•    Poven experience in performing operational production support leadership across a large domain/function. 
•    Strong understanding of IT Service Management (ITSM) & ITIL practices with a focus on Incident, Problem, Change and Service Request 
•    Understanding of the SIAM framework, experience in working within a SIAM model at an enterprise level desired 
•    Demonstrated ability to manage service stability and lead cross-functional resolution during critical incidents. 
•    Proven technical background in enterprise platforms to support incident triage, root cause investigation and understanding of underpinning technology services
•    Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills. 
•    Ability to operate effectively in a matrix environment without direct people management responsibility. 
•    Experience monitoring and improving service performance through metrics and analytics. 
•    Excellent stakeholder management and vendor coordination skills. • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. 
•    Experience leading teams in high-availability operational environments
•    Tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Business, or related discipline. 
•    ITIL Foundation (or higher) certification. 
•    Experience in Service Management tools (e.g., ServiceNow), Agile and DevOps practices desirable. 
•    Experience and understanding of all aspects of technology’s broader operational environment (i.e., processes, procedures, associated toolsets, operating systems, cloud environments, integration tools, SaaS     services and underpinning infrastructure services, etc.

If this sounds like you, we’re keen to talk to you.

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: 178331

Employment Type: Full time

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