Store Manager

**General Information**:

- Date Published- 04-Oct-2024- Advertising Ends- 18-Oct-2024- Country- New Zealand- Location- Manawatu- Role Type- Sales- Work Type- Permanent- ID#- 10206**Position Description**:
**Our Co-operative**

**Te Mātāpuna toa takitini**

Fonterra’s strength is in the collective

We are a Co-operative created and owned by Aotearoa New Zealand dairy farmers. Our rich history is built on farming families working together to share the natural goodness of our dairy with the world.

Collaboration, innovation, and passion was the cornerstone of our creation and something we continue to value today through our commitment to care for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk. Our milk creates goodness through nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients that are loved here in New Zealand and around the world.

**About Farm Source**

We love kiwi dairy farmers and think they’re pretty awesome. For generations they have relied on hard work, ingenuity, and each other, to create the kind of goodness that fuels our families, connects our communities and supports our economy.

At Farm Source, our team is driven by the same co-operative spirit that our farmers and their communities share. We make farming easier so farmers can continue to concentrate on what they do best - producing high quality New Zealand milk in the most sustainable way.

This means growing and supporting the right people - people with plenty of roll-your-sleeves up energy to rise to the challenge. Whether you’re on the farm getting your gumboots dirty or connecting over a coffee at our local stores, you’ll be getting the mahi done as part of a trusted team - backed by good people, the right products, innovative solutions, and industry-leading expertise.

**About the opportunity**

As the Store Manager you will run the full operation of the site ensuring the delivery of inspiring leadership, excellent customer experience, and strong financial results. You will be an ambassador in the community and will help farmers to get the most out of the site and its facilities to enable them to get things done while saving them time and money.

Key elements of the role include:

- Responsible for the overall performance of site operations including sustainable financial performance, positive customer experience and strong retail discipline, driven by our retail strategy.
- Develop and foster high engagement levels within your sales team and have a strong focus on developing your people through leadership, coaching and mentoring.
- Build long term positive relationships with our customers, suppliers & internal partners, including Fonterra shareholders, that delivers value & positive impact for all parties.
- Creating a proactive health & safety culture that helps to ensure a safe workplace whilst meeting all compliance requirements as a minimum standard.
- Maintain and champion policies and initiatives that help to positively enhance Fonterra’s reputation nationally and in local communities.

**About you**

We are looking for an inspirational and passionate people leader to elevate team performance and enable the team to work together towards clear and common goals. You will need to be a self-starter who takes pride in their work and isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and help across the network if required.

Other key requirements include:

- 2-3 year retail management experience is preferred
- Excellent coaching/mentoring skills
- Demonstrated ability at improving service provided to customers
- Proven financial management skills

If this sounds like you and you’re looking to further your career with Fonterra, we look forward to hearing from you.

Why not come and join our team?

**You, me, us together.**

**Tātou, Tātou