Bakery Specialist

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 Bakery Specialist to join the team and use your technical and operational expertise to coach and mentor bakery managers to promote excellence in category performance and deliver growth in our stores across the Lower North Island.

**About the role**

As a Bakery Specialist you’ll use robust planning and financial data to identify and realise opportunities and put innovation into practice to achieve retail excellence. In your cluster of stores, you’ll have a travel cycle that allows you to support the in-store bakery with training and development of managers, health and safety issue resolution, implementation of strategy and projects and continuous improvement of processes.

You’ll look after the Wellington and New Plymouth regions so travel is required for this role.

**About you**

Specialist is the key word With a passion for fresh food and the complexity of fresh retailing, you’ll have experience running a bakery, will be a qualified baker or will have a solid understanding of scratch baking.

You’ll also have:

- Good commercial acumen
- An understanding of retail and a knack for finding solutions
- Confidence building relationships with strong communication skills, good time management
- Comfort working autonomously

**What’s in it for you**

In return, we offer a competitive salary package including a discount at our supermarkets, 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.

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