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Māngere-Ōtāhuhu, Auckland, New Zealand / Aotearoa
Onsite
Ko wai mātou – About us
Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know Gilmours, New World, PAK’nSAVE, and Four Square, right? That’s us!
With more than 320 stores and over 27,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Māui, Foodstuffs North Island is a co-operative proudly owned by our Members. Our purpose is simple – making sure New Zealanders get more out of life, and we’re driven by our aspiration to be one of New Zealand’s most customer-driven and productive retailers.
Te Tūranga – About the role
This is a high-impact opportunity within our Merchandise function, helping shape what we prioritise, how we deliver and transform, and where we unlock the greatest value.
As our Strategic Planning & Transformation Manager, you’ll turn Merchandise strategy into a clear, prioritised and executable portfolio, while leading key transformation priorities through to measurable and sustained outcomes. You’ll own our rolling 8-quarter planning approach and create clarity around value, capacity, sequencing and the trade-offs needed to support confident leadership decisions.
You’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring our priorities translate into action, bringing together strategy, delivery, technology, process and people to create simpler, smarter ways of working. This includes helping Merchandise realise the potential of AI, automation and emerging technology, identifying where they can materially improve productivity, decision-making and commercial outcomes.
Working across Merchandise and with our enterprise partners, you’ll bring clarity to complex transformation, connect interdependent work and help ensure our investment and effort are focused on the priorities that will create the greatest value.
Key deliverables include:
Strategic planning and portfolio leadership
Delivery leadership
Transformation, technology and productivity
Enterprise integration and ways of working
He kōrero mōu – About you
You’ll be an accomplished strategy and transformation leader who can comfortably move between big-picture thinking and hands-on delivery. You know how to navigate complexity, challenge constructively and work with senior leaders to turn strategic ambition into clear priorities, decisions and outcomes.
You’ll bring strong commercial judgement, combined with the ability to understand how technology, AI, automation and new ways of working can unlock meaningful business value. You don’t need to be a technologist, but you’ll be confident translating emerging capabilities into practical opportunities and ensuring transformation remains focused on outcomes rather than technology for technology’s sake.
What will set you up for success:
This role will particularly suit someone who gets energy from turning strategy into action, navigating complexity and leading meaningful transformation, and who sees AI and emerging technology as powerful levers to unlock productivity and commercial advantage.
Ngā painga - What we offer
We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits
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. Accessibility support could include interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.