Head of Fresh & Manufacturing – Wholesale
Ko Waimātou – 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 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
Are you a strategic leader with a passion for fresh food and operational excellence? We’re looking for a visionary Head of Fresh & Manufacturing – Wholesale to lead the charge in delivering a world-class fresh offering across meat, produce, and seafood for our wholesale customers.
Reporting to the GM Wholesale & Customer Service, you’ll be a key member of the Wholesale Leadership Team, responsible for shaping and executing the fresh category strategy as part of Gilmours 3.0 and supporting Gilmours vertical integration strategy. You’ll drive commercial performance, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence across our fresh portfolio.
In this role, you will
· Lead Strategy & Growth: Develop and execute a best-in-class fresh category strategy across meat, produce, and seafood.
· Lead Fresh Value Chain Development:Provide strategic leadership for the development of our fresh value chain, with a focus on building processing capability that delivers quality, efficiency, and growth.
· Drive Commercial Performance: Own financial outcomes including sales, margin, shrink, and waste across fresh categories.
· Champion Customer Needs: Translate wholesale customer insights into innovation and improved offerings.
· Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with supply chain, merchandising, compliance, and store support to deliver seamless execution.
· Lead & Inspire: Build and empower a high-performing team, fostering a culture of safety, innovation, and excellence.
He Kōrero Mōu - About You
· Deep expertise in fresh categories (meat, produce, chilled).
· Strong understanding of manufacturing operations and commercial levers.
· Proven leadership and cross-functional influence.
· Strategic mindset with a customer-first approach.
· Financial acumen and operational literacy.
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.
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.
Internal applications close Friday 24th of October at 5pm