At BIG W, it's our team that make a real difference.  We are driving inclusion and diversity so encourage you to apply!

About us

BIG W is one of Australia’s most loved brands and has been part of our families for over 40 years. At BIG W, we put our customer at the heart of everything we do across our network of 183 stores nationally. We sell exclusive BIG W brands that are simply great quality at low prices as well as feature leading international brands. Our customers can choose everything for their kids, home, themselves, for leisure and for their everyday life. Our team of over 16,000 members is located in Australia, Hong Kong and Bangladesh.

About the role

Reporting through to our National Safety and Health Manager, this is a unique opportunity to make an impact on our business through your ability to lead and enable our team in providing the best care and recovery options for our people. This will be achieved by implementing a proactive wellbeing strategy and continuously improving the injury management program. 

In addition, the Health and Wellbeing Manager will also support the wider team in developing, implementing and reviewing the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Strategy. 

You will have a passion for understanding your stakeholders and a mastery in embedding yourself into their world as a trusted and collaborative partner. Your highly refined skills in partnering will position you perfectly to interface effectively with leaders and peers at all levels of our organisation.  

In this role, the successful candidate will:

• Have end to end responsibility for Wellbeing and Injury Management programs
• Partner with the wider team to develop, implement and review the Health, Safety and Wellbeing strategy
• Enable the provision of Real Care for our people by coaching our support and operational leaders to embed Real Care at all levels of the business
• Act as subject matter expert for claims that are classified as serious/significant/complex and partner with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate our team members’ return to work
• Complete ongoing review of injury trends and provide insight to team. 
• Provide subject matter expertise related to legislative requirements for injury management and wellbeing
• Oversee elements of the Safety and Health Management system related to Wellbeing and Injury Management
• Partner with Ops, Support, EML and WOW Group functions to ensure we provide best practice RTW programs that reduce the human and financial impact of injury to our customers and team

About you:

A key leadership role, we’re looking for the following from the successful candidate

• Qualifications in Return to Work 
• Demonstrated experience in injury management, 
• Proven experience managing complex cases and achieving results
• Leadership and coaching experience and leading front line teams
• Superior knowledge of relevant legislation
• Experience in multi site operations is desirable 
• General retail commercial awareness
• Experience in governance activities

We are driving inclusion and diversity as Ways of Working. If you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to submit your application.

What's in it for you

• An exciting career - a chance to be part of an exciting turnaround and be part of one of Australia and NZ biggest Retailing Groups
• A warm and welcoming team
• Flexible work options will be seriously considered.
• Discounts on private health insurance through BUPA
• Team member discounts at many of Woolworths businesses

Sound like your next opportunity? Apply now or head along to www.wowcareers.com.au to discover more!