Assistant Category Manager – Beer & Cider

Assistant Category Manager – Beer & Cider 

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.    

Our Merchandise team works with supplier partners and store teams on category ranging, buying, pricing and promotions so we can get the right products on the right shelves at the right time for our customers. 

Te Tūranga – About the role 

We’re looking for an Assistant Category Manager – Beer & Cider to support the end to end management of one of our most dynamic and fastmoving categories across PAK’nSAVE, New World and Four Square. 

Working closely with the Category Manager, you’ll help design and execute category strategies, manage daytoday trading activity and support strong commercial outcomes across pricing, promotions, ranging and supplier performance. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to deepen their category management experience in a large, complex retail environment. 

Key responsibilities include: 

• Supporting the planning, organisation and operation of the Beer & Cider category across all retail banners 

• Developing category plans and initiatives aligned to overall Coop and banner strategies 

• Reviewing pricing and promotional performance to optimise customer value and commercial outcomes 

• Managing product, pricing and promotional administration with a strong focus on accuracy and timeliness 

• Building effective working relationships with suppliers, stores and internal business units 

• Coordinating promotional activity and ensuring outputs are delivered to agreed timelines 

• Responding to store queries and supporting store teams with category related issues 

• Supporting forecasting accuracy to identify risks and opportunities early 

• Help bring the category to life through major campaigns and events - including the New World Beer & Cider Awards and the Fresh Hop campaign 

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 free EV plugs  

• Southern cross health insurance 

• 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 

You’re commercially curious, detailoriented and motivated to learn. You enjoy working at pace, can juggle multiple priorities and take pride in delivering highquality work. You’re comfortable collaborating with others, but confident standing on your own two feet when needed. 

Ideally, you’ll have: 

• Experience in operational or commercial roles involving ranging, pricing and promotions  

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends, risks and opportunities  

• Exposure to category management or large merchandise environments (retail or FMCG advantageous)  

• Experience supporting supplier negotiations and managing commercial relationships  

• Good numeracy and intermediate Excel capability (e.g. pivot tables, lookups and analysis)  

• Excellent planning, communication and stakeholdermanagement skills  

• A strong work ethic, resilience and the ability to manage high volumes of work  

• A genuine appetite to learn, grow and build a career in category management 

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.  

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.  

Don’t ‘cart’ around – apply now!