Programme Delivery Lead - EEx Programme

Kia ora.  We’re Foodies.  You know 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.

The Employee Experience (EEx) Programme is our co-op-wide reset of how our people and payroll experience works; simpler, smarter, and designed for the moments that matter. We’re modernising systems and streamlining processes so it’s easier for our teams (stores, Distribution Centres (DC’s) and Support Centre) to get stuff done and focus on customers.

We are creating a new team dedicated to the successful delivery of this co-operative wide programme. As the Programme Delivery Lead, you’ll be responsible for the end-to-end leadership and delivery of the EEx programme, ensuring coherence across platforms, processes, data and the moments that matter most to our people across stores, DC’s and Support Centre teams.

Please note that this is a fixed term opportunity through to January 2028.

 In this role, you will:

• Establish and run effective programme governance of our EEx programme, enabling clear, evidence‑based decisions on scope, timing, risk and trade‑offs.
• Lead and hold our implementation partner to account, applying strong commercial discipline and constructive challenge to achieve early time‑to‑value.
• Drive benefits realisation and adoption, embedding measurable employee experience improvements into business‑as‑usual.
• Lead risk, quality and operational readiness to ensure safe delivery, smooth cutover and a sustainable transition into BAU.
• Build trusted relationships across Technology, People & Capability and Operations, bringing clarity across delivery, product and change ownership.

You’re a senior programme delivery leader who thrives in complex environments and cares deeply about outcomes for people. You’re comfortable operating at enterprise scale, working with delivery partners, influencing senior leaders, and making balanced decisions across scope, risk, quality and value.

You bring a calm, confident approach, strong commercial discipline, and the credibility to lead large transformation programmes that impact frontline teams.

Essential for success in this role will be:

• Proven experience leading large‑scale enterprise people transformation programmes (HCM, HRIS, payroll‑adjacent ecosystems)
• Excellent programme governance, planning, risk and dependency management capability
• Strong experience working with major implementation partners or systems integrators
• Ability to translate strategy into executable delivery and realised benefits
• Experience working across hybrid delivery models (agile, iterative and plan‑driven)
• Strong senior stakeholder engagement and decision‑enablement skills
• Experience in complex, operational environments where frontline impact is critical
• Experience with platforms such as SAP SuccessFactors or enterprise people systems (strongly preferred)

We’re interested in your diverse experiences, your strengths, and how adaptable you are to learn and grow. If you don’t meet every requirement, but feel this role could be for you, we’d still love to hear from 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.  

Are you ready to be part of our bunch – apply now!