Assistant Sourcing Manager

2 weeks ago

Mangere East, New Zealand COUNTDOWN NZ SUPPORT Full time

Key role supporting Sourcing Managers to deliver FoodCo strategies
- Exciting role as we amplify our Own Brand offerings
- Plenty of potential to progress your career with Countdown

**Ready to make an impact? We are**
Countdown is New Zealand’s leading supermarket brand and digital retailer, serving more than 3 million customers every week. We’re committed to providing our customers with the best fresh, value and convenience, so they’ll enjoy the best overall shopping experience in store or online.

Countdown continues to champion responsible, ethical and sustainable retailing and our commitment to community programmes and partnerships across the country. Whether we are giving Kiwi kids free fruit, supporting our food rescue programme partners, tackling waste, addressing climate change or celebrating diversity, we are committed to making Kiwi’s lives a little better every day. While we’re known as Countdown, we form part of Woolworths New Zealand, a subsidiary of the publicly-listed Woolworths Group.

**About the Role | Mō te Tūranga**
Reporting into the Strategic Sourcing Manager at Woolworths Food Company, this role will see you tasked with supporting the Sourcing Manager in delivering a competitive commercial offering across our Own & Exclusive brands products in order to achieve agreed metrics for the category. You will be responsible for working with stakeholders to maintain our commercial contract and to assist in launching Tag-on projects.
You will also be responsible for:

- Maintaining awareness of product trends, availability, and customer preferences
- Understanding buying and selling patterns and the impact on the COGS on product development
- Collaborating across teams to ensure efficient, on time delivery of products
- Maintaining the contract management process
- Maintaining and Updating Competitor Pricing Analysis
- Working with the replenishment team to ensure stock availability
- Assist in delivering and maintaining the tag-on products into the NZ market

**About You | Mōu**
We are looking for someone who has at least a couple of years experience in retail or commercial industries and is adapted to working in a challenging environment. You will be capable of building and maintaining internal and external relationships with key stakeholders and participating in delivering changes to the product. It’s a challenging but rewarding role where you’ll learn from the best of the bunch

**Working with Countdown | Te Mahi ki Countdown**
Our purpose is to make Kiwis' lives a little better every day.
We’re friendly, down-to-earth, and energetic - we work hard but we have a great time doing it, and we love what we do. There is plenty of scope for new ideas, lots of room for you to add value, and importantly, you’ll be working with a business that touches the lives of three million New Zealanders a week.

**Come as you are | Haere mai rā**
We’re an equal opportunity employer and are committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all.

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