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# Four Square Store Lead at Foodstuffs North Island

- **Company:** Foodstuffs North Island
- **Location:** Mangere, New Zealand
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/foodstuffs/a9b5342c-80fc-4653-8f11-5fed06e278c0

## 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.

As we continue to evolve and grow the Four Square banner, we're looking for an experienced Four Square Store Lead to help bring our store vision to life and support the successful implementation of our Four Square 4.0 strategy.

Te Tūranga – About the role

This is a unique opportunity to sit at the centre of one of our most exciting retail transformation programmes!

Working closely with the Head of Four Square, you'll act as the vital link between our Support Centre Teams and Owner Operators, leading the retail setup and implementation of new and evolving Four Square stores. You'll take the vision of our Four Square 4.0 strategy and turn it into reality, ensuring stores are customer-ready, operationally sound, and opened to the standard our customers expect.

You'll manage multiple store projects at different stages of implementation, partnering with Owner Operators, internal stakeholders and support functions to ensure milestones are achieved, barriers are removed, and stores are delivered on time.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading the retail implementation and opening of new Four Square stores, project managing stores who are in planning stage or already in progress.
- Acting as the key connection point between Owner Operators and Support Centre teams.
- Driving adoption of the Four Square 4.0 strategy and securing stakeholder buy-in.
- Managing multiple projects and implementation workstreams simultaneously.
- Coordinating internal teams to ensure stores are ready to open on time and to standard.
- Providing visibility of risks, issues and solutions while maintaining momentum across projects.
- Supporting the transition of store-opening processes into sustainable business-as-usual operations.

This role will be based predominantly out of our Landing Support Centre in Mangere, Auckland, and will require regular travel around the North Island to our Four Square stores - a car is provided.

He kōrero mōu – About you

You will need to be an experienced grocery retail professional who understands food retail from the ground up and knows what it takes to successfully deliver change in a complex environment.  Here’s what we need from you:

- Strong grocery, food retail, or relevant FMCG experience.
- Deep understanding of product categories, merchandising, store layouts, retail operations and customer expectations.
- Proven project management experience with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver to tight timeframes.
- Experience working with SAP and confidence navigating retail systems and technology.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills and the ability to positively influence, challenge, and drive action.
- Experience working within complex organisations with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Strong commercial thinking and a customer-first mindset.
- Excellent planning, communication and organisational skills.
- Resilience, adaptability and the confidence to push back constructively when required.
- A passion for retail and a genuine desire to help stores succeed!

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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