Assistant Category Manager – Grocery Food & Frozen

Full job description
Assistant Category Manager – Grocery Food & Frozen
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.

Our Merchandise team works with supplier partners and store teams on category ranging, buying, pricing and promotions so we can get the right products on the right shelves at the right time for our customers.

Te Tūranga – About the role
Reporting to the Category Manager, you’ll be responsible for a number of categories across our retail banners (PAK’nSAVE, New World and Four Square). You’ll own and actively design strategies that drive growth across your assigned categories, planning, organising and operating the category to meet financial targets both as an individual and as part of the team.

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
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’ll bring a proactive, data-driven approach to planning and category growth. You’re confident working cross-functionally, building relationships, and managing competing priorities.

Ideally, you’ll have:
Commercially astute with a strong understanding of market trends and influences.
Comfortable working with numbers and able to turn data into meaningful insights and stories.
Ideally experienced in category management with strong business analysis skills.
Technically savvy, naturally curious, and eager to learn.
A confident communicator, comfortable negotiating win–win solutions.
Experienced in B2B environments with strong relationship-building capability.
Self-motivated, organised, and a natural problem solver.
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.

Don’t ‘cart’ around – apply now! Applications Close 20th of August