Senior Retail Analytics Lead - Drive Operations Excellence

Foodstuffs North Island Limited; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free carparking

Southern Cross Healthcare Coverage

Onsite café with subsidised meals

Flexible working options

Inhouse learning and development

Job summary

Foodstuffs North Island Limited, trading as Foodies, seeks a skilled analytics professional to solve complex operational challenges and turn data into practical business outcomes. You’ll advise senior leaders, banner teams, and store owners, delivering insights that improve store performance, labour productivity, and cost efficiency across the retail network.

You'll lead through influence, acting as a technical expert, mentoring analysts, and setting high standards for analytical rigour,

Qualifications

• Deep analytical mindset with ability to translate data into business impact.
• Strong stakeholder management across senior leaders and store networks.
• Ability to influence decisions through evidence-based analysis and clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex analytical workstreams from problem definition to insight and implementation support.
• Deliver actionable insights that improve store performance, productivity, and cost efficiency.
• Translate data into clear, commercially relevant recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Support stores through targeted analysis and insight-led recommendations to improve outcomes.
• Coach analysts to lift analytical capability and standards across the team.
• Contribute to evolving reporting frameworks and centralized services for member stores.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Commercial acumen

Tools

Power BI

Power Query

DAX

SQL

BigQuery

Advanced Excel

Job description

Foodstuffs North Island Limited, trading as Foodies, seeks a skilled analytics professional to solve complex operational challenges and turn data into practical business outcomes. You’ll advise senior leaders, banner teams, and store owners, delivering insights that improve store performance, labour productivity, and cost efficiency across the retail network.

You'll lead through influence, acting as a technical expert, mentoring analysts, and setting high standards for analytical rigour,