Strategy Lead

As our Strategy Lead, you’ll help shape the strategic direction of our co-op and enable commercially grounded decision-making across Foodstuffs South Island. You’ll bring structure to complexity and turn analysis into clear, compelling recommendations - crafting strategic narratives that influence decisions and drive impact.

Reporting to our Head of Strategy, you’ll work across both enterprise and business unit levels, collaborating with senior leaders to identify and analyse opportunities, develop strategy, and quantify risks and benefits. 

This is an opportunity to influence the future of a cooperative with deep community roots – guiding high-impact decisions and helping embed strategic clarity across our co-op.

Some of what you’ll do: 

• Collaborate with senior leaders to shape strategy and assess commercial and operational opportunities.
• Analyse performance across business units to identify growth opportunities, profitability gaps, and emerging trends.
• Translate qualitative and quantitative insights into clear, actionable strategic recommendations.
• Present strategic options and evaluate their viability across customer, commercial, operational, and organisational dimensions.
• Track progress and reflect external market shifts (consumer behaviour, industry trends and macro-economic changes etc.) into our strategic conversations. 

• Our approach to flexible working is based on trusting and empowering our people to manage their time and deliver results while balancing the needs of their personal lives.
• We’re committed to equitable outcomes, and we offer additional paid parental leave, free period products and financial health checks to name a few.
• We support your wellbeing with Southern Cross health insurance for you and your family after a qualifying period, discounts at local gyms, access to online wellbeing tools, and a prayer and privacy room onsite.
• We offer continuous learning and professional growth, as well as access to our extensive online training library and endless opportunities.
• We’re proud of our supportive team environment, and our positive and friendly culture that’s made fun by Furry Friend Fridays and monthly social events!
• We’re a Pride Pledge organisation, and we are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives, every day and we celebrate our diversity as strength.
• Our Papanui based office has free carparking, an in-house café. 

Ready to take on the challenge? Click “apply” to apply for the role! Applications will close 11:59pm Sunday 7 September 2025 and will only be accepted via our careers site. Please include a cover letter outlining your interst for the role.

If you have any questions about the role, or experience any issues submitting your application, please email careers@foodstuffs-si.co.nz 

We’re a team of 14,000 who make sure South Islanders have access to the groceries and essentials they need. Proudly 100% Kiwi-owned and operated, our co-operative has more than 200 PAK’nSAVE, New World, Four Square and On the Spot stores feeding the South Island.

We value being at the heart of our communities, like we’ve always been, to make the South Island a better place – for today and for many generations to come. From sunny Golden Bay all the way to Stewart Island, there’s a Foodstuffs store serving you and your whānau.

Our success is down to our people who bring their skills, experience, passion, and expertise to make Foodies an amazing and rewarding place to work. Our co-op has a wide variety of roles to offer, and endless opportunities for development.