Job Architecture & Role Framework Lead

Ko wai mātou – About us
Kia ora.  We’re Foodies.  You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right?  That’s us!  With 300+ stores and over 27,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life.  Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.

Te Tūranga – About the role
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.

As we launch our new EEx Programme here at Foodies, we are creating a new team dedicated to successful delivery of this co-operative wide programme and we need an experienced Job Architecture & Role Framework Lead to join us on a 12 month fixed term contract to design, implement, and embed an enterprise‑wide job architecture and role framework that creates clarity, consistency, and scalability across our diverse workforce.

You’ll lay essential foundations for clearer role definitions, better workforce planning, capability uplift, talent mobility, and role‑based system access and provisioning. You’ll operate at enterprise scale, balancing consistency with practical fit across stores, distribution centres, and our support centre environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing and embedding a clear, enterprise‑wide job architecture, including job families, sub‑families and career levels
• Developing job profile templates and a job catalogue to enable rapid adoption
• Leading role analysis, mapping, clean‑up and levelling to create a single, trusted source of truth
• Establishing decision logic, governance, and BAU processes for managing new or changing roles
• Partnering with HR, leaders, and People Systems to embed the framework into recruitment, onboarding, performance and development processes
• Acting as the subject matter expert for job architecture across the business and EEx programme
• Building sustainable capability through enablement, guidance, and handover into BAU

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
• Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).

He kōrero mōu - About you
You’re a pragmatic, confident and collaborative job architecture specialist who enjoys turning complex ideas into practical, usable solutions. You bring strong judgement, excellent stakeholder skills, and the ability to operate comfortably at both strategic and detail levels.

You’ll also bring:

• Proven experience designing or implementing job architecture, job family frameworks, job catalogues or career frameworks at enterprise scale
• Strong role analysis and job levelling capability, including managing complexity and inconsistency
• Experience setting up governance, decision rights, and BAU processes
• A solid understanding of the employee lifecycle and how frameworks connect into people processes
• Confidence working with senior leaders, HRBPs, Reward, Talent, People Systems and operational teams
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to create clear, role‑ready guidance and templates
• Comfort working alongside HR systems and enterprise technology programmes; SuccessFactors experience is a plus
• Experience working with, or alongside, Identity and Access Management (IAM/EIM) or enterprise technology programmes where job role mapping is a critical dependency for identity, access, or provisioning

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!

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 Recruitment.Foodstuffs@foodstuffs.co.nz. Accommodations could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.

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