Job Description

Ko wai mātou – About us  

Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know Gilmours, New World, PAK’nSAVE, and Four Square, right? That’s us!

With more than 320 stores and over 27,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Māui, Foodstuffs North Island is a co-operative proudly owned by our Members. Our purpose is simple – making sure New Zealanders get more out of life, and we’re driven by our aspiration to be one of New Zealand’s most customer-driven and productive retailers.

Our Retail Operations & Transformation team are laser-focused on critical metrics—driving SAP support, efficiency of in-store operations, checkout performance and play a key role with new store openings & ownership changes across all three banners.

Te Tūranga – About the role

This is a key strategic role accountable for shaping, prioritising, and governing the retail change portfolio. As part of our Retail Operations & Tranformation Leadership Team, you will ensure initiatives are aligned to strategy, sequenced effectively, and supported by clear investment and decision-making frameworks.

You’ll own the single, integrated view of all retail change, bringing together demand from across the business and translating it into a clear portfolio roadmap. Your work will enable leaders to make informed decisions and trade-offs about what gets delivered, when, and why.

Importantly, this role focuses on governance and portfolio design—not execution—ensuring initiatives are well-defined, prioritised, and ready for successful rollout into stores.

Key responsibilities include:

• Owning the end-to-end retail portfolio, providing a clear, integrated view of all initiatives impacting Retail
• Shaping, prioritising and sequencing initiatives based on strategic alignment, value, risk, and capacity
• Establishing and maintaining strong portfolio governance, decision forums, and stage-gate processes
• Providing oversight of dependencies, risks, issues, and timelines across complex, interrelated initiatives
• Managing portfolio financials including planning, forecasting, and value realisation
• Ensuring initiatives entering the portfolio have strong business cases, clear outcomes, and defined sponsorship
• Supporting executive decision-making through high-quality reporting, insights, and recommendations
• Championing consistent portfolio standards, tools, and continuous improvement across the organisation

He kōrero mōu – About you

You’re a strategic thinker with strong portfolio or programme leadership experience, able to bring clarity and structure to complex environments.

To be successful, you’ll bring:

• Extensive experience in portfolio, programme, or project delivery within complex environments
• Strong knowledge of delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, hybrid, Lean, SAFe) and how to apply them pragmatically
• Experience establishing governance frameworks, standards, and stage-gate processes
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to link business cases, investment, and value realisation
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across senior leaders and cross-functional teams
• Experience with delivery tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, ADO) and portfolio reporting
• Ability to simplify complexity, provide clear insights, and enable confident decision-making

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
• Southern Cross plans for you and your family
• Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
• Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, lots of fun on site activities
• Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).

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@foodstuffs.co.nz Accessibility support could include interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.