Category Intern

About the role

As a Category Intern, you’ll join the Merchandise Category team, supporting how products are ranged, priced, and promoted across our retail banners PAK’nSAVE, New World, and Four Square. You’ll work closely with a Category Manager and the wider team, using data and insights to help grow your assigned category and support both internal teams and external partners. Key responsibilities Support the Category Manager with marketing and promotional activity planning and recommendations. Run sales performance reports and build simple Excel templates to analyse results, trends, and opportunities. Gather and summarise competitor activity to help inform category decisions. Work closely with the wider team to communicate product changes and updates. Help manage promotional errors and support clear communication with stores when fixes are needed. About you You’re curious, motivated, and keen to learn how retail merchandising and category management works. You enjoy working with data and are comfortable using tools like Excel to analyse information and spot opportunities. Strong attention to detail is key for this role. Our internship programme offers 12-weeks paid work at living wage starting in November based in Māngere, Auckland. Renowned learning and development sessions fortnightly. An extensive support network - your People Leader, the Talent Team, a Kaiārahi (mentor) and your fellow interns to help you along the way. The opportunity to tackle real-world business problems that help us achieve our aspiration – to help New Zealanders get more out of life. Modern office spaces with free parking, subsidised lunches, flexible working, weekly supplier tastings and regular celebrations. 5% in store and online discount in our supermarkets.

We’re looking for someone who is interested in discovering their career with us.

You’ll have a curiosity to learn, a knack for problem solving and be ready to get stuck in to making a positive impact on New Zealand communities. You’ll ideally be interested in one of the above areas listed and in our application form, you’ll have the opportunity to indicate your preferred roles (you don’t necessarily need to be studying something that is aligned).

You’ll be working for a New Zealand owned and operated Co-op whose purpose is to help New Zealanders get more out of life.

We have a commitment to be here for our country, here for our people and here for our communities in everything we do, and we provide career opportunities like no other in our industry. We have an unbeatable team of over 25,000 people with a fun and inclusive culture where you feel like you belong. We work with some of New Zealands most treasured and iconic brands with over 350 PAK’n’SAVE, New World, Four Square, Gilmours and Liquorland stores across the North Island

Check us out here https://www.foodstuffs.co.nz/, on Instagram @foodiescareers and on Tik Tok @lifeatfoodies to stay up to date.

Our recruitment process involves

A written application form, video interview, and face-to-face interview with our People leaders. If successful, we’ll check your references before finalising contracts and moving you through our fun and interactive digital onboarding experience to get you ready to start in November.

If you require the recruitment process to be adapted due to an access need, please feel free to contact us directly – [email protected]