Foodstuffs North Island
2 months ago
Procurement Business Partner
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Company information
- Company
- Foodstuffs North Island
- Location
- New Zealand New Zealand
- Posted
- 2 months ago
Job description
8-month fixed-term opportunity!
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.
Te Tūranga – About the role
As part of the Non-Stock team, you’ll lead procurement projects from start to finish while supporting larger strategic sourcing initiatives alongside our Senior Procurement Business Partners. You’ll work closely with suppliers and stakeholders to deliver strong commercial outcomes, manage procurement processes, and ensure contracts and agreements provide value and mitigate risk.
You’ll be responsible for:
- Leading end-to-end procurement projects and RFx processes.
- Building strong supplier relationships and negotiating effective commercial arrangements.
- Using spend analysis and market insights to identify value and service improvement opportunities.
- Supporting contract management, workflows, and timely contract reviews.
- Translating business requirements into clear and measurable RFx documentation.
- Drafting agreements and statements of work that protect business interests and manage risk.
He Kōrero Mōu – About You
You’re an experienced procurement professional with strong commercial acumen and a solid understanding of tendering and sourcing processes. A confident relationship builder, you can influence stakeholders, navigate challenging conversations, and drive outcomes that balance commercial value with sustainability considerations.
You’ll bring:
- Experience leading end-to-end RFx and procurement processes.
- Strong analytical, planning, and communication skills.
- The ability to influence, negotiate, and build trusted partnerships.
- A collaborative and adaptable approach, with the agility to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
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 [email protected]. Accessibility support could include interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
Required skills
- negotiation skills
- relationship building
- negotiation
- communication skills
- analytical skills
- sustainability
- procurement
- contracts
- contract management
- disability support
- business partner
- workflows
- commercial acumen
- fast-paced environment
- recruitment process
- collaborative approach
- suppliers
- data processing
- tendering
- learning and development
- birthday leave
- stakeholders
- planning skills
- hiring process
- supplier relationships
- ai tools
- agreements
- fixed-term
- contract reviews
- procurement processes
- flexible working
- influence
- mental health needs
- market insights
- risk mitigation
- strategic sourcing
- business requirements
- health needs
- agility
- partnership building
- end-to-end procurement
- statements of work
- flu vaccinations
- procurement projects
- application review
- assistive technology
- diversity & inclusion
- whānau
- neurodiversity
- service improvement
- recruitment team
- spend analysis
- artificial intelligence (ai)
- adaptable approach
- commercial value
- commercial arrangements
- togetherness
- commercial outcomes
- hiring decisions
- human judgment
- accessibility support
- social network groups
- onsite café
- subsidised meals
- sign language interpreter
- verification signals
- non-stock
- resume analysis
- carparking
- retail discount
- response assessment
- challenging conversations
- rfx processes
- senior procurement business partners
- value identification
- rfx documentation
- procurement professional
- sourcing processes
- ev plugs
- mini mart
- onsite activities
- inhouse programmes
- courageous behaviour
- best selves
- diverse background
- interview location
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