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Ko wai mātou – About us
Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us! With 300+ stores and over 24,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life. Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.
From the moment you walk into a PAK’nSAVE or New World store, you’re greeted by a fresh offering that exudes quality and choice. The team are focused on optimising fresh food offerings and ensuring food standards are maintained and staff operate safely, while working closely with stores to elevate the customer experience.
Te Tūranga – About the role
As a Produce Specialist for the North Island, covering the South Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Coromandel regions. You’ll identify and realise opportunities, put innovation into practice and achieve retail excellence through great coaching to promote excellence in category performance and deliver growth at store. The produce specialist is a store focused role that delivers category strategy and assists, mentors and trains in-store produce managers to deliver a consistent high-quality of excellence in fresh retailing.
To do this you’ll:
· Utilise financial data as a key tool to identify where the key priorities lie for the category and by store
· Effectively manage travel and associated bookings to maximise store visit targets and remain in budget
· Understand your store cluster as a whole and each stores strengths and weaknesses and prioritise visits accordingly
· Be part of and deliver category, Fresh strategy and projects
· Be responsible for delivering new store openings and support store refurbishment processes by category
There is frequent travel required for this role where you are away from your home base area for days at a time.
Ngā painga - What we offer
We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits:
· Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including 36 free EV plugs
· Southern cross health insurance, Foodies superannuation scheme
· Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
· Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave
· Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).
He kōrero mōu - About you
Specialist is the key word! To be awesome at this you’ll have had operational success in a hands-on produce or fresh role or will have strong retail or wholesale experience along with a good knowledge of how fresh works. From that you’ll be confident talking to produce retail and will be able to show real examples of where you have worked to make significant change in the business.
You’ll also have:
· Retail Produce operational awareness including managing a produce department or similar business unit
· A good knowledge of fruit and vegetable varieties, quality, and seasonality
· Merchandising and category management in produce
· A good awareness of food trends internationally as well as locally
· SAP knowledge
· Financial awareness and ability to put it into use as an effective tool
· Good working knowledge of current food safety management relating to Produce
We’re interested in your diverse experiences, your strengths and how adaptable you are to learn and grow. If you don't meet every requirement, but feel this role could be for you, we’d still love to hear from you!
Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.
We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.
We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.
If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to Recruitment.Foodstuffs@foodstuffs.co.nz. Accommodations could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.
Are you ready to be part of our bunch – apply now!