Ko wai mātou – About us
Foodstuffs Own Brands is part of the wider Foodstuffs whānau, owned by both Foodstuffs co-operatives. We're the national team behind more than 2500 private brand products — including some of Aotearoa's most recognised grocery brands, most notably Pams. We're customer-driven in everything we do, driving a strategic Foodstuffs' Private Brand portfolio from conception to consumption!
Te Tūranga – About the role
As our Strategic Development Manager, you'll play a key role in shaping and delivering private brands that customers keep coming back for, while making it easier for our banners to win every day. Reporting to the Head of Product & Development, you'll lead a highly capable team of Product Developers through collaboration leadership of our product development strategies, programme and innovation pipeline.
What you'll do
He kōrero mōu – About you
We're looking for a commercially savvy product development professional with a proven track record of delivering successful packaged goods within an FMCG and/or retail environment. Bringing strong food science expertise, you'll have a sound understanding of New Zealand food regulations and food codes, enabling you to confidently guide products from concept through to launch while ensuring quality, compliance and consumer appeal.
You’ll be highly skilled at turning market insights into winning products, with experience using tools such as AC Nielsen, Dunnhumby and Mintel to identify trends, understand customer behaviour and uncover growth opportunities. Equally comfortable working strategically and operationally, you'll be an effective project manager who can lead multiple workflows, influence stakeholders at all levels and coach others to achieve outstanding outcomes.
Above all, you're a genuine foodie with a passion for creating products that customers love. You understand what it takes to win both at the shelf edge and around the dinner table, combining consumer insight, commercial thinking and creative flair to bring innovative products to market that deliver real value for customers and the business.
Ngā painga - What we offer
We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits
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.
Foodies is a cooperative, made up of 22,000 kiwis just like you, working hard to make sure New Zealanders get more out of life. Chances are you have been one of our customers, we serve more than 1.4 million kiwis each week through our PAK’nSAVE, New World, Four Square and Gilmours stores.
We have more than 350 stores up and down the North Island, from Houhora in the far north, to Island Bay in the coolest little capital in the world. And we have support centres in Auckland, Palmerston North and Wellington.
Check out www.foodstuffs.careers to hear our people talk about what they do, why they do it, and to hear about some of the coolest career opportunities in NZ.
