Regulatory Partners

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 and regulatory 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

As a Regulatory Partner, you’ll be a trusted advisor to our Owner Operators and store teams, owning regulatory compliance outcomes and risk across your store portfolio.

You’ll play a key role in lifting compliance maturity across stores by coaching, influencing, and partnering with leaders to embed strong regulatory practices into everyday operations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Owning regulatory compliance outcomes across your portfolio, identifying risks and ensuring issues are resolved and sustained
• Leading behavioural and cultural change in stores to embed strong compliance practices
• Partnering closely with store leaders through regular visits, audits, and performance discussions
• Supporting stores through regulatory incidents, recalls, and escalation scenarios
• Influencing store capability and accountability through coaching, challenge, and targeted interventions
• Identifying systemic risks and helping drive continuous improvement across the network

He kōrero mōu – About you

You’re a confident and credible regulatory professional who thrives in fast-paced retail environments and knows how to influence outcomes through partnership, not authority.

You’ll bring:

• 5+ years’ experience in regulatory, compliance, or risk roles
• Strong experience working in retail regulatory environments (e.g. food safety, restricted sales, hazardous substances, recalls)
• Proven ability to identify risk, prioritise action, and drive sustained compliance outcomes
• A solid understanding of New Zealand regulatory frameworks relevant to retail operations
• Confidence working with Owner Operators and store leaders to influence and challenge when needed
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities across multiple stores

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 plans for you and your family
• 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.