Mark Wolfenden

eCommerce Director at Woolworths New Zealand

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

About

Executive leader in digital & eCommerce with broad expertise in strategy, digital trasnformation, eCommerce, loyalty, digital marketing, growth & data. Experienced in both consulting and client side roles leading large agile teams, developing and implementing strategy, driving commercial results and growing talent.

Experience

  • Woolworths New Zealand (6 yrs 11 mos)
    • Director of Ecommerce
      Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

      - Executive leader of eCommerce, digital experience & customer care for Woolworths New Zealand

    • Director of WooliesX NZ (Digital, eCommerce & Loyalty)
      Jan 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      - Executive leadership of Countdown's digital, eCommerce and loyalty portfolio

    • Head Of Digital
      May 2021 - Jan 2022 · 9 mos

      - Design & implementation of a new agile operating model launching 4 tribes aligned with the customer journey & modern product principles. - Launched new product management practice to develop product capability - Tribe lead for loyalty, customer data & personalisation leading 10 squads & team of 85 to transform direct marketing & rewards

  • Head of Growth and Optimisation at My Food Bag
    Sep 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr

    - Responsible for rolling out new way of working with learnings from Silicon Valley growth methodologies - Led full review of key company growth drivers across acquisition, retention & reactivation exposing new opportunities & challenges - Iidentifying customer journey opportunities with quant and qual methodologies and managing optimisation programme

  • Head of Digital Strategy at The Warehouse Group
    Sep 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

    - Developed fulfilment strategy to own the last mile in NZ including reviewing the future fulfilment model for group brands including group click & collect strategy & roadmap - Managed team of 4 BI & web analysts to deliver improved reporting, dashboards and ad hoc data insights - Led innovation trials including delivery subscription and Part Pay

  • Head Of Ecommerce at The Warehouse
    Sep 2015 - Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    - Led and grew engaged online trading team - Delivered against challenging ecommerce growth budgets - Managed transition to a new eCommerce platform - Completed Advanced Leadership Programme

  • Multichannel strategy manager at Sainsbury's
    Apr 2015 - Aug 2015 · 5 mos

    - Led 5 year strategy for online clothing including market, competitor, customer, proposition analysis & stakeholder workshops - Developed future roadmap, full financial model & board papers