Retail Deployment Specialists

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.

Our Retail Operations & Transformation team are laser-focused on critical metrics—driving SAP support, efficiency of in-store operations, checkout performance and play a key role with new store openings & ownership changes across all three banners.

Te Tūranga – About the role

We’re looking for a team of hands-on Retail Deployment Specialists to help deliver major technology rollouts across our store network, starting with SAP implementation and followed by national POS deployment. This is a fast-paced, high-impact role where you’ll work directly with stores to ensure systems, people, and processes are ready for go-live! These roles are 12-month fixed-term opportunities.

• Support stores through every phase of deployment, including readiness, training, cutover, hypercare, and post-go-live stabilisation.
• Partner closely with store owners, operational teams, programme partners, and support teams to deliver smooth system transitions with minimal disruption to trading.
• Thrive in fast-paced, live retail environments and confidently lead stores through change.
• Provide hands-on support across training, coaching, and operational setup activities.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues quickly during deployment and go-live activity.
• Ensure store teams feel supported, capable, and confident throughout the deployment journey.

He kōrero mōu – About you

You’ll bring strong retail or FMCG experience, ideally with exposure to SAP deployment, retail operations, or large-scale system rollouts. You understand how supermarkets operate end-to-end and are comfortable working directly with store teams in fast-moving, real-world environments.

You’re highly organised, resilient under pressure, and confident managing multiple stakeholders across stores, programme teams, and senior leaders. Experience with POS or front-of-house technology rollouts will be highly regarded, along with the ability to train and coach others through operational change.

A willingness to travel and work flexible hours during deployment activity is essential.

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
• 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  Recruitment.Foodstuffs@foodstuffs.co.nz.  Accessibility support could include interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.