Woolworths

• Lead the end-to-end 3–5 year portfolio strategy to maximise sales, profit, and customer satisfaction
• Partner across Buying, Marketing, and Operations to embed customer insights and ensure the operating model delivers financial outcomes
• Manage and inspire a high-performing team of product and innovation experts while coaching the next generation of leaders

Ready to make an impact? We are!

This is an exceptional opportunity to leverage your experience, with one of New Zealand’s largest employers.  As part of our high performing team you’ll be joining a fast-paced, dynamic Trans-Tasman retail organisation where we are proud of our customer centricity and our ability to make a real difference for our teams within a complex, large-scale, matrix environment. 

About the Role | Mō te Tūranga

As the General Manager for Woolworths FoodCo NZ, you will be the strategic architect behind a multi-year roadmap focused on product innovation, profitability, and market-leading growth. Leading a high-caliber team of product and quality experts, you’ll bridge the gap between commercial strategy and customer experience, driving cross-functional collaboration to ensure our commercial operating model delivers exceptional results. This is a high-impact leadership role for a commercially-savvy visionary ready to scale a diverse portfolio and coach the next generation of retail leaders in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Define and lead the 5-year growth strategy for the FoodCo portfolio to maximize sales, profit, and inventory efficiency.
• Take full ownership of the P&L, ensuring all revenue, capital, and operational expenditure targets are met or exceeded.
• Use meaningful data and trends to drive product innovation and improve customer satisfaction (NPS) across our commercial operations.
• Partner with Buying, Marketing, and Supply Chain teams to ensure seamless trade planning and high-level vendor relationships.
• Build a high-performing, diverse team by attracting top talent and coaching the next generation of business leaders.

About You | Mōu

• Proven ability to develop winning category plans that deliver long-term, sustainable growth.
• Proven experience leading a large business with full accountability for profit and loss.
• Strong analytical skills to turn data into bottom-line logic and strategic insights that deliver ROI.
• Expert at building high-level credibility and managing relationships with internal teams and external partners.
• A track record of attracting, developing, and leading high-performing, engaged teams.
• Experience driving innovative change and successfully steering complex teams toward a culture of high-velocity innovation
• Skilled negotiator with deep expertise in building strong, strategic supplier partnerships.

Our Benefits | To Tatou Painga

• Genuine flexibility in how and where you work
•  Ongoing development within an ANZ team and access to COE/specialist career opportunities
•  Grocery discount card and discounted online shopping delivery
•  Banking and insurance (health, life etc) discounts 
•  Global and local career opportunities

Working with Woolworths NZ | Me mahi tahi tatou ki Woolworths NZ

With over 185 stores and 20,000 team members across Aotearoa, we've made it our mission to make Kiwi lives a little better every day. 

We're friendly, down-to-earth, and energetic - we work hard but we have a great time doing it, and we love what we do. There is plenty of scope for new ideas, lots of room for you to add value, and importantly, you'll be working with a business that touches the lives of three million New Zealanders a week.

Come as you are | Nau mai, whakatau mai 

We’re an equal opportunity employer and are committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all. 

If you’re smart and good at what you do, let’s work together | Me mahi tahi tatou