Product Manager

4 days ago

Mangere, New Zealand Foodstuffs North Island Full time

Do you love developing a great strategy to achieve operational focus and customer preference?
- Is product development and management something you’ve got a passion for?
- Do you have a knack for holding positions positively to protect our brands and products while also finding solutions to challenges?
- Can you build objective outcomes from an assortment of customer insights and trends?
- Are you known for your multi project management capabilities and coaching style leadership to achieve exceptional team results?

**A bit about us**:
Foodstuffs is a 100% New Zealand owned and operated organisation, made up of two regional co-operatives and a central body ‘Foodstuffs New Zealand’ that leads our Own Brand product portfolio, national brand and marketing, and government advocacy.

Established in 1922 we are a true Kiwi success story, having grown from humble beginnings to become one of New Zealand's largest and most thriving businesses. We believe that it's our people, our knowledge, and our passion for our business and customers that sets us apart.

As an organisation we have exceptionally high standards and see ourselves as an integral member of every one of our communities. Ours is a simple formula and one we will continue to develop well into the future as we carry on anticipating and meeting the needs and wants of our customers.

**A bit about the role’s day to day**:

- Be a lead member of a team that are building the most preferred Private Label and Exclusive brands in New Zealand by guiding, facilitating and strategically developing and governing customer led brands and products that New Zealanders choose first.
- Strategically managing a portfolio of Own Brand products through their lifecycle within the Foodstuffs business.
- Using our customer driven insights, trends and other available tools in your decision making and development - such as Dunnhumby, AC Nielsen and other insight tools
- Developing, proposing brand specific category strategies that meet the core own brand promises and meet the regional category requirements and strategies.
- Engaging with regional category management and other key stakeholders across the Foodstuffs businesses to get support for category strategies.
- Convene and manage project teams to deliver category action plans. Taking an agile approach to project management and delivery of outcomes
- Develop and pursue a deep understanding of assigned categories at a market, product, and supplier level. Be proactive and skilled in understanding the levers that can be applied to achieve own brand objectives in a category, including but not limited to value engineering, expanded supply base and volume related benefits,

**Some helpful experience to have**:
Our ideal Foodie is someone with FMCG product development or category management experience and passion for great product. Relevant New Zealand and/or International FMCG Supermarket retail or supplier. Strong proven commercial acumen and evidence of strategic business development. Leadership skills. Solid MS Office or equivalent skills. Familiar with retail management systems such as SAP

You’ll have fabulous communication skills and an understanding of how a cooperative model works. You need to be comfortable working in a highly engaged and collaborative team environment and understand the intricacies of stakeholder engagement. If you have a solid background in a retail environment and you’re looking for your next challenge, then this could be the role for you.

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