Summary: The Analytics Technical Lead provides guidance and mentorship to an analytical squad, driving value from analytics use cases and managing technical delivery and quality of projects. Highlights: 1. Provide technical Guidance and Mentorship to a mixed analytical squad 2. Drive scalable value from analytics use cases with a focus on transformation 3. Cultivate a data-driven culture through training and adoption of insights Analytics Technical Lead * Provide technical Guidance and Mentorship to a mixed analytical squad. Provide technical Guidance and Mentorship to a mixed analytical squad. * Ponsonby and Favona Support offices with hybrid Working (3 days in the office) Ponsonby and Favona Support offices with hybrid Working (3 days in the office) * 12 Month Fixed Term Contract. 12 Month Fixed Term Contract. We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives connected by a shared Purpose to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’ It’s that Purpose that fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week. If you’re excited to turn today’s blue sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you’ll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive and empowering workplace that reflects the diverse communities we serve. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless. We strive to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow for our customers and team,  bringing the best of Woolworths Group and Quantium together to make data driven decisions. By partnering with Quantium, a world-class data science and advanced analytics business we’re excited about the future as we unlock the power of AI and Insights to reimagine retail. Through this partnership, the wiq team harnesses the best of Woolworths Group and Quantium data science and analytics talent to reimagine retail by solving the most complex problems using AI and analytics. As a team, we leverage Agile ways of working to help our team develop their skills while also making sure our team is focusing on solving the most complex problems for both our customers and team. The purpose of the wiqNZ team is to unlock the power of data to imagine retail, which contributes to making Kiwis’ lives a little better every day. We work closely with all WWNZ business units, as well as with the broader wiq team. Drive scalable value from analytics use cases by harnessing the strengths and skills of the analytics and insights delivery squad, with a strong focus on supporting WWNZ transformation. Manage the technical delivery and quality of analytics projects and collaborate closely with the Strategic Insights or BI management to ensure work is delivered to the appropriate scope, timelines and in a way that will achieve business impact. * Strategic Enablement & Alignment: Strategic Enablement & Alignment: Refine strategic insights plans, and jointly work to embed insights in action plans, ensuring alignment with BU, NZ and Group Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). * Insights Technical Proficiency & Delivery: Insights Technical Proficiency & Delivery: Manages technical delivery of team, including technical scoping and sizing. Plan and allocate resources according to priorities, skills and capacity, providing estimates of work effort, timeframes, costings and resourcing for analytical tasks. * Continuous Improvement & Innovation: Continuous Improvement & Innovation: Identifies, designs, and implements internal technical process improvements, including automation and ‘data product’ optimisation, and adopts new technical innovations like AI. Applies critical thinking to usage and outputs of tools to optimise insights delivery for greater scalability. * Trans-Tasman operating model embedding: Trans-Tasman operating model embedding:Actively share NZ-led examples with wiq forums and ensure NZ voice is heard in scoping / design sessions for new Group-first tools and approaches. * Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentorship & Collaboration: Cultivate a data-driven culture by facilitating the training and adoption of insights and analytics tools throughout the organisation. You can translate business needs into actionable analytics outputs and products aligned with overall strategy. Requires commercial acumen to understand business impacts of different analytics solutions or approaches. * High level of self-motivation in new analytics innovation - constantly exploring new, more efficient ways of working (incl. GenAI leadership) High level of self-motivation in new analytics innovation - constantly exploring new, more efficient ways of working (incl. GenAI leadership) * Demonstrate propensity to adopt and use AI Tools for business outcomes (instead of always starting from scratch) Demonstrate propensity to adopt and use AI Tools for business outcomes (instead of always starting from scratch) * Experience working with cloud based solutions. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google BigQuery are advantageous. Experience working with cloud based solutions. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google BigQuery are advantageous.