Assistant Category Manager - Confectionery

About Foodies

You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us! We are one of NZ’s biggest companies, you just don’t know it, because in true Kiwi style – we are humble about it (apart from right now maybe)! Our purpose built offices close to Auckland Airport is home to New Zealand’s largest Distribution Centre and our Support Centre where our team of 1000 people strong, all strive towards becoming one of the most customer driven retailers in the world.

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

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)

In return, we offer a competitive salary package including:

·A discount at our supermarkets

·Subsidised health insurance

·Free parking

·Participation in the company superannuation fund

·Birthday leave and long service leave

We also offer lots of learning and development opportunities to grow your career.

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We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome applications from you all regardless of who you are or what you do. We welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau, but most importantly we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.

This role is paying between $80,000 - $90,000 depending on level of experience.