Senior Retail Lead

**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 Retail Operations and Transformation team maintain a strong focus on SAP support, in-store operations, and checkouts across all three retail banners. Monitoring a range of important metrics, the team are also involved in new store openings, ownership changes, and various business initiatives.

**Te Tūranga - About the role**

As a Senior Retail Lead you’ll be leading the scoping of all retail requirements for the wider customer engagement programme, advocating for the retail perspective in the programme planning process, and developing and executing on a comprehensive retail execution plan.

To do this, some of what you’ll do is:

- Develop the retail execution plan in alignment with wider programme objectives and deliverables.
- Ensure senior retail stakeholders, such as banner representatives, Heads of Banners and GM of Membership & Property, are fully engaged in the programme.
- Drive strong collaboration with other key stakeholders including banner teams, store owners and teams, marketing, programme team members and others required.
- Ensure expected retail execution expenditure is included in the wider programme budget and accurately reflects actual expenditure.
- Drive strong collaboration with key stakeholders including banner teams, store owners and teams, marketing and programme team members.

**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 EV plugs
- Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
- Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday
- Inhouse learning and development courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes)

**He kōrero mōu - About you**

We’re looking for a strong project manager who has extensive experience delivering complex projects, or being part of teams delivering on significant programmes within a retail environment. The ability to effectively implement the strategic programme with our stores and their teams will be a critical element to our success.

You’ll also have:

- Proven experience engaging at a strategic level with senior stakeholders
- Experience in developing comprehensive project plans, establishing project delivery structure and driving deliverables through to successful execution.
- A background working within cross-functional teams on significant programmes, with the ability to navigate complex situations and ambiguity.
- Demonstrated experience delivering complex projects and landing change within a retail environment - we need someone who understands what it’s like to work in a retail
- Experience with creating high quality outputs including clearly articulated project plans, stakeholder engagement packs and other content.
- The ability to work closely with a variety of stakeholders from all levels and effectively form networks across the organisation.

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.