Bakery Specialist

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.

From the moment you walk into a PAK’nSAVE or New World store, you’re greeted by a fresh offering that exudes quality and choice. The team are focused on optimising fresh food offerings and ensuring food standards are maintained and staff operate safely, while working closely with stores to elevate the customer experience.

Te Tūranga – About The Role

As a Bakery Specialist for the Lower North Island , you’ll partner closely with cluster of stores to help identify business opportunities and put innovation into practice to achieve retail excellence.

To Do This You’ll

• Use robust planning and financial data to identify and realise opportunities
• Effectively manage travel and associated bookings to maximise store visit targets and remain in budget
• Support the in-store bakery with training and development of managers, health and safety issue resolution
• Implement strategy and projects and continuous improvement of processes
  
  

There is frequent travel required for this role where you are away from your home base area up to 4 days at a time every 4 weeks.

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 free EV plugs
• Southern cross health insurance, Foodies superannuation scheme
• Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
• Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave
• Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).
  
  

He Kōrero Mōu - About You

Specialist is the key word! With a passion for fresh food and the complexity of fresh retailing, you’ll have experience running a bakery, will be a qualified baker or will have a solid understanding of scratch baking.

You’ll Also Have

• Good commercial acumen
• An understanding of retail and a knack for finding solutions
• Confidence building relationships with strong communication skills, good time management
• Comfort working autonomously
  
  

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

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