We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Vet Category Procurement Manager to join our team. This role is embedded within the Vet Operations business, with a dotted line to the Head of Procurement. You’ll lead complex sourcing initiatives, oversee contract integration, and manage the category to ensure commercial benefits.

Key areas of responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Develop tailored procurement solutions for the Vet business.
• Deliver Gross Margin improvements and optimize ‘Cost of Doing Business’.
• Enhance procurement operations and processes to drive efficiencies.
• Manage end-to-end commercial processes, from tendering to contract completion.
• Oversee supplier performance management and foster strategic partnerships.
• Ensure risk management and governance, safeguarding business interests.
• Advocate sustainable practices into contracted business outcomes.

As the Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving our organization's transformation towards true DevOps practices, ensuring quality and safety is built into our Digital Engineering practices.

Your primary responsibility will be to lead and oversee the Quality Engineering function. Ensure that all aspects of quality assurance, including engineering practices around unit testing\integration testing, functional UI testing, performance, security quality assurance processes are consolidated into a cohesive and efficient practice to ship our Digital products faster and safer to production.

You will be instrumental in integrating quality engineering practices seamlessly into our development pods and deployment chain, enabling us to deliver high-quality software products to our customers faster and more reliably. Key to your success will be your ability to lead and inspire a team of quality engineers and developers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

By championing best practices in quality engineering and driving strategic initiatives, you will be at the forefront of our journey towards Digital excellence in digital engineering and digital product delivery.

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop and communicate a comprehensive quality strategy aligned with the goals and objectives of the Digital Engineering teams and business lines. incorporating modern Digital engineering, cloud-native development methodologies and best practices.
• Lead and mentor a team of quality engineers and testing professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning to support the delivery of high-quality digital products.
• Inspire the broader Digital engineering community to take ownership in quality as part of their day to day development activities.
• Establish and optimise quality assurance processes and methodologies, including QE automation frameworks, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and modern testing techniques (e.g., shift-left testing, behaviour-driven development, AppSec, Load testing etc).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate quality engineering practices seamlessly into the DevOps pipeline and DevOps ways of working. Ensure that quality is built into every stage of the software development lifecycle.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies for digital products, encompassing functional, non-functional (performance, security), and usability testing, and leveraging automation to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance quality engineering processes, tools, and practices, staying abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to introduce innovative solutions that improve product quality and delivery speed.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders, including product owners, developers, designers, and senior leadership, to ensure alignment on quality objectives and priorities, and communicate progress, outcomes, and challenges related to quality engineering initiatives.
• Identify and mitigate quality-related risks, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, security standards, and industry best practices, and implement processes and controls to monitor and manage risks effectively.
• Evaluate and select appropriate testing tools and technologies and manage relationships with vendors to ensure that the team has access to the necessary resources and support to execute quality engineering activities effectively.

We're looking for a Business Intelligence Manager to join us at Shift, where we're committed to enhancing the business lending landscape through smart data use. In this role, you'll oversee our reporting functions and help us make informed strategic decisions. Your main task will be to manage and interpret data, turning it into understandable and useful insights for different teams.

This role is about more than just numbers; it's about understanding what the data tells us and how it can guide Shift to better serve our clients in the business lending sector. We need someone who is not just technically skilled in business intelligence but also able to see the bigger picture and contribute to Shift's steady growth in a meaningful way.

This version keeps the focus on the role's responsibilities and impact at Shift, presented in a more straight forward and grounded manner.

• Oversee Reporting Functions: Manage and refine Shift's reporting processes, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of critical business data to stakeholders.
• Strategic Decision-Making Support: Utilize data insights to support strategic decision-making, providing clear, actionable advice to guide the company's direction in the business lending sector.
• Build Out Infrastructure Layers: Lead the development and enhancement of Shift's data infrastructure layers, creating a robust, scalable platform that supports advanced data analysis and reporting.
• Ensure Data Quality and Integrity: Maintain a high standard of data quality and integrity across all platforms and systems, implementing checks and balances to ensure data accuracy and reliability.
• Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Work closely with various departments to understand their data needs and challenges, ensuring that the BI solutions developed are aligned with overall business objectives and enhance operational efficiency

Start your leadership journey with ALDI! From driving sales, to serving customers and supervising staff, our Duty Store Managers always lead from the front.

Your purpose is ensuring our store runs smoothly during your shift. You'll be supporting and guiding team members, handling customer inquiries and working collaboratively as part of the store management team. All the while, you'll be honing your leadership skills and truly making a difference for your team and our customers.

The specifics? Here's what you’ll be doing:

• Opening and closing the store and supervising shifts
• Offering feedback to the team that's clear, constructive, and inspiring
• Assisting in training and onboarding team members
• Being a customer service superstar and serving customers at the registers with a smile
• Keeping shelves stocked with products so that our customers can find all their favourites
• Keeping a keen lookout for any incidents or hazards to keep everyone safe