Fresh Foods Operations Manager
Foodstuffs Landing Drive, Mangere, Auckland
Membership & Property – Fresh Retail Operations /
Permanent Full Time /
Hybrid
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
Leading a team of Fresh Specialists, the Fresh Foods Operations Manager is a key commercial and strategic leadership role within the Fresh Retail team that is responsible for driving their specialist team to deliver world class retailing in our stores.
To do this you’ll:
· Build and execute clear strategy plans for Fresh to deliver on banner promises
· Actively operate in a strategic and commercially focused manner to manage the growth and return of the category for the business and for the membership
· Foster strong collaboration tied to strategy with the Merchandise team to ensure the product range fulfils the retail strategy and vision at store level
· Ensuring a program of well researched, tested and executed projects that focus on continual improvement and development that delivers for the membership
· Create support functions in the business that create trade tools to the membership that encourages best practice behaviours through clear processes, manuals, systems and training
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
You will have solid experience and skills in the Fresh category, enabling you to act as the expert, providing relevant advice. Passionate about Fresh, you’ll be naturally curious and up to date with trends so you can challenge norms and develop new initiatives that benefit the membership.
In addition, you’ll also have:
· A strong track record in strategic and people leadership.
· Proven ability to effectively maintain relationships and influence your immediate team, key stakeholders and the senior leadership team.
· Ability to work collaboratively to achieve real results.
· Practical commercial understanding and capability to investigate and base decisions on firm fact.
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!
