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# Banner Trade Manager at Foodstuffs North Island

- **Company:** Foodstuffs North Island
- **Location:** Mangere, New Zealand
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/foodstuffs/174c07a4-a99d-4172-ae51-c820ae7c9787

## Job description

Banner Trade Manager 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. Te Tūranga – About the role As our PAK'nSAVE Banner Trade Manager, you'll be the senior commercial lead responsible for driving trading performance across the PAK'nSAVE North Island banner. This is a highly influential role where you'll shape and execute trading strategies that strengthen our competitive position, accelerate sales growth, and help our stores deliver exceptional value for customers. Working closely with Merchandise, Marketing, Store Operations, and PAK'nSAVE Members, you'll bring campaigns, seasonal events, and trading initiatives to life while ensuring we're delivering on our customer promise every day. Key responsibilities include: Leading the development and execution of promotional campaigns, and seasonal trading initiatives. Owning and managing the North Island retail activation calendar. Driving sales, profitability, foot traffic, basket growth, and customer conversion across the banner. Leveraging customer, market, and performance data to identify opportunities and inform strategic decisions. Delivering meaningful store benchmarking reviews and actionable insights. Partnering with stakeholders across Marketing, Merchandise, Operations, and Stores to ensure successful execution of trade initiatives. Supporting pricing, profitability, and return on investment objectives across campaigns and activations. He kōrero mōu – About you You'll be a commercially minded retail leader who knows how to turn strategy into results. With experience operating in large-scale retail or complex commercial environments, you'll bring a strong understanding of what drives sales performance, profitability, and customer engagement. You're comfortable developing and executing trade or category strategies and can confidently use data and insights to identify opportunities and inform decision-making. You'll also be a highly effective relationship builder who can influence across a broad stakeholder network and bring people together behind a common goal. Resilient, adaptable, and customer-focused, you thrive in fast-paced environments and are confident balancing competing priorities while delivering outcomes. Experience working with retail analytics platforms such as SAP, dunnhumby, or similar systems will be highly regarded. Key requirements are: Proven experience in large-format retail, multi-site operations, or a similar commercial environment. Strong commercial acumen with a track record of driving sales growth, profitability, and business performance. Experience developing and executing retail, trade, category, or go-to-market strategies. Strong analytical capability, with the ability to translate data and customer insights into actionable outcomes. Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to drive results through collaboration. 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 Healthcare Coverage 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.

## About Foodstuffs North Island

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: New Zealand's largest grocery retailer, a cooperative of locally owned PAK'nSAVE, New World, Four Square, and Gilmours stores, serving communities across the North Island.
- **Entity Type**: Private (cooperative)
- **Headquarters**: Auckland, New Zealand (Support Centre in Mangere; additional offices in Wellington and Palmerston North)
- **Founded**: 1922
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (cooperative structure, no individual founders)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Retail grocery and Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
- Target customers: B2C (consumers via retail stores and online), B2B (businesses via Gilmours wholesale)
- Mission: "Making sure New Zealanders get more out of life"

## Products & Services
- **PAK'nSAVE**: Discount grocery stores focused on value pricing.
- **New World**: Full-service supermarkets with a wide product range.
- **Four Square**: Convenience stores tailored to local communities.
- **Gilmours**: Wholesale supply for businesses, cafes, and restaurants.
- **Online Shopping**: Click & collect and home delivery options across banners.
- **Mobile Checkouts & Technology**: Self-service checkouts, mobile checkout options, and innovative store designs (metros, cut-throughs) to speed up shopping.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private cooperative)
- **Key Metric**: 24,000 employees (“Foodies”); 350+ stores; ~4.08 million customer visits per week; over 5 million individual grocery items sold daily.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 100% New Zealand owned and operated; owned by over 300 local grocery retailers (cooperative members). Partners with local suppliers, stocking over 60,000 products.
- **Growth Signals**: Investing ~$100 million annually in new and transformed stores; planned ~8 new store openings in FY24; $50 million invested in innovation in 2021; proposal to merge with Foodstuffs South Island to streamline operations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Cooperative Model**: Local owner-operators have deep community ties, tailoring product ranges to local needs while benefiting from the scale of a national network.
- **Scale & Efficiency**: One of the largest supply chains in New Zealand, with dedicated distribution, logistics, and transport teams.
- **Customer-Driven Innovation**: Heavy investment in technology (mobile checkouts, online shopping) and store formats to enhance customer experience.
- **Workforce Development**: Largest trainer of butchers and bakers in New Zealand; strong internal career pathways including potential store ownership.

## Strategic Focus
- **Merger with Foodstuffs South Island**: A proposal to merge the two co-ops into one entity to streamline business operations.
- **Customer Experience**: Continuous improvement of product range, value, and convenience; leveraging data and analytics (e.g., Loyalty Insights & Customer Analytics Manager role).
- **Digital & Technology**: Investing in Salesforce, SAP, and other enterprise systems; hybrid roles in IT, analytics, and engineering.
- **Sustainability & Community**: Supporting local suppliers, reducing environmental impact, and serving over 1.4 million customers weekly.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a “whānau” (family) with a strong sense of belonging; cooperative values mean every employee contributes to something bigger.
- **Work Arrangements**: Many support centre and supply chain roles offer hybrid work (e.g., Mangere, Wellington, Palmerston North). Store roles are on-site.
- **Career Growth**: Opportunities across retail, supply chain, support centre (finance, marketing, IT, legal). Pathways to store ownership for motivated team members.
- **Perks & Training**: Largest trainer of butchers and bakers in NZ; professional development programs; scale and security of a 100-year-old organisation.
- **Engineering & Tech**: Roles like Salesforce Technical Lead, Senior SAP Developer, SuccessFactors Support Analyst, and Deployment Specialist indicate a modernising tech environment.

## Sources
1. [foodstuffs.co.nz](https://www.foodstuffs.co.nz/news-room/Get-the-facts-fsni) – Company facts and figures
2. [foodstuffs.co.nz](https://www.foodstuffs.co.nz/working-at-foodies) – Working at Foodies overview
3. [jobs.lever.co/foodstuffs](https://jobs.lever.co/foodstuffs) – Current open positions (hybrid, tech roles)
4. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/foodstuffs-auckland-limited) – LinkedIn company page (followers, employee count, revenue)
5. [foodstuffs.careers](https://foodstuffs.careers/about-us.php) – Careers site with culture and role descriptions

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