Assistant Category Manager

11 hours ago

Mangere, New Zealand Foodstuffs North Island Full time

**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 your category 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.

To achieve this you’ll:

- Plan, organise and operate the category and agree goals, measures and service levels with the Category Manager in order to grow and maintain market share, establish operational standards and ensure brand consistent positioning.
- Manage and control the processing of product, pricing and promotional administration of the category’s portfolio of products.
- Build and manage effective working relationships and alliances with suppliers, stores and other key stakeholders.
- Coordinate all elements of promotional administration and ensure output to Category Manager for review is within scheduled deadlines.
- Determine and realise strategic objectives through category planning, supplier influence, collaboration and negotiation, pricing, merchandising, range management and product positioning.

**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, Foodies superannuation scheme
- 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**

Commercially astute and with an understanding of market trends and influences, you’ll be someone who loves numbers and can turn those into a meaningful story to develop strategy. Ideally from a category background, you’ll be technically savvy, naturally curious and a confident communicator. You’ll also understand market trends, haveB2B experience and be self motivated, organised and a natural problem solver.

You’ll also:

- Have experience in operational management including ranging, sourcing, pricing and promotion.
- Be experienced in business analysis, trend identification and potential problem identification.
- Have proven experience in negotiation and management of commercial supplier / distribution agreements.
- Understand market trends and influences, both within New Zealand and globally.
- Have exposure to Category Management for large Merchandise brands.
- Have good numeracy and Microsoft Excel skills to an intermediate level (VLOOKUP, Pivot tables and analysis).

We’re interested in your diverse experiences, your strengths and how adaptable you are to learn and grow. If you don't meet every requirement, but feel this role could be for you, we’d still love to hear from you

**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.

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