Insights Partner
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 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.
Gilmours is 100% NZ owned and operated, proudly serving thousands of businesses and organisations across the North Island with everything they need to fuel their success - from fresh produce and butchery to chilled & frozen, grocery, liquor, and more. We’re the one-stop Foodservice shop for Kiwi businesses.
Te Tūranga – About The Role
We’re looking for a commercially astute Insights Partner to lead the insights strategy and execution for Gilmours. Sitting within our Procurement & Insights team, you’ll be the go-to advisor for turning complex data into clear, actionable insights that drive performance across our foodservice business.
- Lead the Gilmours insights programme, delivering high-impact analytics and scalable reporting frameworks
- Partner with Gilmours stores and the Wholesale Leadership Team to influence strategic decisions
- Champion AI-driven insights and embed a data-led culture across the network
- Design and build world-class dashboards using tools like Power BI
- Drive cross-functional alignment through enterprise-wide data initiatives
What You’ll Bring
You’re a curious, solutions-focused data leader who knows how to connect insights to business outcomes. With a strong technical toolkit and a knack for storytelling, you’re ready to shape the future of foodservice through data.
- Proven experience in commercial insights, analytics or strategy roles, ideally in FMCG, Foodservice or Retail
- Advanced skills in data visualisation (Power BI, Tableau) and analytics tools (Python, R, SQL)
- Strong understanding of data governance, modelling and cloud platforms
- Excellent communicator who can translate technical data into business language
- Collaborative, innovative and passionate about capability uplift and continuous improvement
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 health insurance
- 5% discount at our retail stores
- Onsite café with subsidised meals and a mini mart
- 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 Recruitment.Foodstuffs @foodstuffs.co.nz. Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.
Skills Required
- Proven experience in commercial insights, analytics or strategy roles
- Experience in FMCG, Foodservice or Retail
- Advanced skills in data visualisation (Power BI, Tableau)
- Advanced analytics skills (Python, R, SQL)
- Strong understanding of data governance, data modelling and cloud platforms
- Experience designing and building scalable dashboards and reporting frameworks
- Excellent communication skills to translate technical data into business language
- Collaborative, innovative and passionate about capability uplift and continuous improvement
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.
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