Four Square Store Lead

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 predominately 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 influence, challenge and drive action positively.
• 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  [email protected].  Accessibility support could include interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.