About the role
Working within our Wholesale Supply regulated team – you’ll provide expert knowledge across a range of categories to continually build our wholesale supply offering, whilst ensuring we remain compliant.
You will be collaborating with a broad range of suppliers and internal stakeholders, running each category as a strategic business unit - driving sales and performance, focused on growing market share and delivering value to customers.
With an absolute passion for retail/convenience, you’ll live and breathe the journey focused on effective category management.
This is a great opportunity to drive commercial negotiation with suppliers, working to really understand supplier viewpoints and provide solutions – all while building strong relationships across the co-op.
About you
You might be a seasoned Category Manager in the retail/convenience space or ready to step up into an opportunity such as this!
You must have high energy and be invigorated by the challenge that lies ahead of us. You’ll work fluidly through a time of change and ambiguity – taking it in your stride and running with it.
With natural entrepreneurial skills, B2B experience and a real passion for seeking out solutions you will be creative yet able to work within the compliance framework to achieve results. A real hungry do-er with strong commercial acumen a solid track record of negotiating great buying outcomes is what you will be known for.
It goes without saying that you will have strong problem solving and decision-making skills, be an expert with data, trends and analysis and will be an amazing natural communicator with the ability to really collaborate.
What’s in it for you
We are based in purpose-built offices in Mangere (near the airport) with loads of free parking, a mini mart for those afternoon cravings and a café that makes great coffee (or smoothies!).
We are big on work life balance and as such have flexible working opportunities to allow you to get the most out of life – we tend to work collaboratively for few days in the office together and then a few at home.
Southern cross healthcare, a day off on your birthday, multiple tribes to join, lots of social events to have some fun across the groups and the opportunity to work with the most amazing Wholesale Supply team who are achieving great things and having a great time doing it!
Experience awesome. Achieve Awesome. Be awesomely you.
We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome applications from you all regardless of who you are or what you do. We welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau, but most importantly we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.