Commercial Analyst
Ko wai mātou – About us
Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE, Gilmours 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.
Gilmours is 100% NZ Owned and Operated serving thousands of businesses and organisations across the North Island for the food and beverages they need to grow their business. Gilmours is your one-stop Foodservice shop with Butchery, Produce, Chilled & Frozen, Grocery, General Merchandise, Consumables, Beverages and Liquor.
Te Tūranga – About the role
Working closely with our Buying Leads, you will be focused on delivery of financial analysis, data interpretation, modelling & reporting supporting one of Gilmours key strategic projects!
Rolling up your sleeves, you will be submerged into the world of category management which will see you providing crucial analysis of our current buying position for categories and suppliers to our buying team.
You will be focused on and delivering:
Insights from the Customer-Driven project including range optimisation, pricing, data cleansing and integrity for decision making
Support for the buying lead team with negotiation strategy and targets
Measurement and reporting of the impact of changes to our Members and Leadership team
Enhancement of reporting capabilities using the BI toolset for more accurate and actionable insights
Tracking project milestones and ensuring alignment with business objectives
There will also be the opportunity to enhance your project management skillset working on a variety of support tasks during project implementation.
He kōrero mōu - About you
Commercially savvy with a few years of experience you will bring strong system skills–SAP&COGNOS knowledge with a natural ability for process flow and system integration knowledge.
We need strong excel skills and experience in an analytics-based role ideally within FMCG or Retail or wholesale which demonstrates analytics and insight. Numerical at heart – you will love the big numbers and transforming this into insights the business can truly understand and act upon.
You will have a proactive and inquisitive nature with the desire to continually push boundaries and delve deeper. Curious, loves to ask questions and challenge the status quo is what we seek in our Commercial Analyst!
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).
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 [email protected]. Accessibility support could include interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.
Don’t ‘shelve’ your potential, come be a part of our team!
Skills Required
- Commercially savvy with a few years of experience
- Strong system skills including SAP and Cognos knowledge
- Strong Excel skills
- Experience in an analytics-based role, ideally within FMCG, retail or wholesale
- Process flow and system integration knowledge
- Ability to transform large numerical data into actionable business insights
What We Do
Foodies is a cooperative, made up of 22,000 kiwis just like you, working hard to make sure New Zealanders get more out of life. Chances are you have been one of our customers, we serve more than 1.4 million kiwis each week through our PAK’nSAVE, New World, Four Square and Gilmours stores. We have more than 350 stores up and down the North Island, from Houhora in the far north, to Island Bay in the coolest little capital in the world. And we have support centres in Auckland, Palmerston North and Wellington. Check out www.foodstuffs.careers to hear our people talk about what they do, why they do it, and to hear about some of the coolest career opportunities in NZ.
