Product Developer

Ko Wai Mātou - About Us
Foodstuffs Own brands is a 100% New Zealand owned and operated organisation, owned by the two Foodstuffs regional co-operatives. Foodstuffs Own Brands is the business responsible for product development, sourcing, and quality control on private label products exclusively for the Foodstuffs retail and wholesale banners nationally.

We own several brands, the most iconic of which is the much-loved Pams brand which holds the title of New Zealand's leading grocery brand. Our brands have been such a big part of the kitchens, dinner tables and homes of New Zealanders for over 80 years. From our humble beginnings when we supplied just Pams baking and custard powder, we now boast a range of over 3000 products with everything from baking to butchery, to fresh produce and grocery. We aim to inspire New Zealanders with affordable, high quality, innovative products that are supported by simple yet delicious recipes, mealtime solution and household tips.

Te Tūranga – About The Role

• Do you love product development – creating, nurturing, evolving, and protecting a brand and its products to ensure its relevancy to customers?
• Do customer insights and trends drive your decision-making?
• Are you known for your multi project management capabilities?
• Do you get excited about seeing products you have created on shelf in your local supermarket?

In this key role as Product Developer, you'll be part of a team that are building the most popular grocery brand in New Zealand. We need your expertise to provide project assistance in the development and commercialisation of new products, product improvement and value engineering to meet target price points without compromising on customers perceived quality.

To Achieve This You'll

• Develop customer driven product, using our customer driven insights, trends and other available tools in your decision making.
• 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 value engineering, expanded supply base and product cost drivers.
• Liaise with Product Business Owners, Quality and Technical, packaging and brand to ensure accurate product briefs and that products developed deliver on requirements.
• Co-ordinate the market reviews, benchmarking, and evaluation of product submissions from suppliers.
• Ensure accurate packaging briefs are prepared for packaging and design development. Be responsible for proofing and sign-off of product label designs and production proofs. Ensure printed packaging meets our standards.
• Ensure all existing and new Own Brand products uphold our Own Brand commitments around CSR and Ethical Sourcing.

This is a 6-month fixed term opportunity for a superstar Product Developer to join our Own Brands team
He Kōrero Mōu - About You
Our ideal Foodie is someone with FMCG product development experience and passion for great product. Relevant New Zealand and/or International FMCG Supermarket retail or supplier experience in product development is an essential requirement.

You'll Also

• Have fabulous communication skills and an understanding of how a cooperative model works
• Be comfortable working in a highly engaged and collaborative team environment and understand the intricacies of stakeholder engagement
• Have a solid background in a retail or manufacturing environment

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 EV plugs
• Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
• Flexible working options
• Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).

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.

We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.

If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to Recruitment.Foodstuffs Accommodations could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.

Are you ready to be part of our bunch – apply now
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