Produce Specialist

5 months ago

Lower Hutt, New Zealand Foodstuffs North Island Full time

From Four Square Houhora in the Far North, to New World Island Bay in the world’s coolest little capital, as the country's largest grocery retailer, we're proud to be a homegrown Co-op and feel privileged to serve New Zealand.

We’re on the hunt for a Produce Specialist to join the team and use your technical and operational expertise to add value to our stores across the Lower North Island.

**About the role**

As a Produce Specialist for the Lower North Island, you’ll identify and realise opportunities, put innovation into practice and achieve retail excellence through great coaching to promote excellence in category performance and deliver growth at store. The produce specialist is a store focused role that delivers category strategy and assists, mentors and trains in-store produce managers to deliver a consistent high-quality of excellence in fresh retailing.

There is frequent travel required for this role where you are away from your home base area for days at a time.

**About you**

Specialist is the key word To be awesome at this you’ll have had operational success in a hands-on produce or fresh role or will have strong retail or wholesale experience along with a good knowledge of how fresh works. From that you’ll be confident talking to produce retail and will be able to show real examples of where you have worked to make significant change in the business.

You’ll also have:

- Retail Produce operational awareness including managing a produce department or similar business unit
- A good knowledge of fruit and vegetable varieties, quality, and seasonality
- Merchandising and category management in produce
- A good awareness of food trends internationally as well as locally
- SAP knowledge
- Financial awareness and ability to put it into use as an effective tool
- Good working knowledge of current food safety management relating to Produce

**What’s in it for you**

In return, we offer a competitive salary package including subsidised health insurance, flexible working so you can get the most out of life, free parking, participation in the company superannuation fund, birthday leave and long service leave We also offer lots of learning and development opportunities to grow your career.

**Experience awesome. Achieve Awesome. Be awesomely you.

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