Our People
Our People, Our Passion
Our people are the reason we have grown to become Australia’s most successful retailer. That’s why we offer many opportunities for our people to grow and develop and change their careers all in the one company.
We offer employees the chance to work with multiple brands in multiple professions, in flexible roles. We help our employees reach their goals through a strong focus on flexible work arrangements and training and development.
Development Opportunities
We have developed an engaging culture based on doing the right thing and values including retail passion, integrity, principled leadership and teamwork. We are one of the largest employers in Australia, with team members from hugely diverse backgrounds.
We care passionately about our people and are committed to helping them realise their potential across a range of skill disciplines. To enable our people to develop their careers within the company each year we invest millions of dollars in development, training and education programmes such as mentoring, leadership development and accredited qualifications up to MBA in partnership with a university business school.
Rewards and Benefits
We work really hard to ensure we are able to attract the right people into our organisation and then retain them for the future and that’s why we offer a wide range of rewards and benefits to our employees including:
- Competitive remuneration package including superannuation and incentive plans
- Flexible work options – e.g. Job Share, Career Breaks
- Wellness programmes – e.g. Quit Smoking, Health Checks
- Staff discount
- Annual national conference – 3 day conference bringing together 5000 managers and partners from Australia and New Zealand
- Access to discounted private heath care
- Employee Assistance Program with free counselling for employees and their immediate family
- Social and community involvement opportunities
- Employee Credit Union
- Salary sacrifice opportunities
- Woolworths Superannuation Fund
- Reward and recognition programs
Norwest Support Office
Our Norwest Support Office at Bella Vista in Sydney was completed in 2005 as a purpose built facility that houses almost 3000 employees supporting all divisions of our business. The campus style facility has an atmosphere of buzz and excitement that amazes new visitors and team members to the site. Some of the impressive facilities and services available to employees are:
- food court style bistro
- 2 cafes
- 500 seat auditorium
- same day dry cleaning
- fitness centre
- car wash
- small supermarket
- BBQ facilities
- free onsite parking
- shuttle bus service
- function rooms
- child care centre with salary sacrificing opportunities
There is a real community atmosphere at the site with many employee driven social and community events including sporting competitions and monthly charity activities which saw $250,000 raised at the site in the last 12 months . It’s also not unusual to see some of Australia’s music stars perform at the site during lunch time to show their appreciation to BIG W for their fantastic record sales.