Transport Freight Rating & Master Data Specialist

Foodstuffs North Island; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free carparking

5% discount at our retail stores

Flexible working options

A day off on your birthday

Long service leave

In-house learning and development

Job summary

Foodies, part of Foodstuffs North Island, is hiring a Transport Freight Rating & Master Data Specialist to join our Transport team. Based in Auckland or Wellington, you’ll manage freight rates and master data across systems, ensuring accurate billing representations.

You'll work with internal stakeholders and freight customers to maintain data quality and support continuous improvement, with a focus on data integrity and reporting.

Qualifications

• Experience processing invoices, billing activities or working with complex data sets.
• Advanced Excel skills, including Pivot Tables and LOOKUP functions.
• Strong communication, collaboration and data quality mindset.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update customer freight rates, master data and related information across multiple transport systems
• Perform freight rating validations, billing reconciliations and data quality reviews
• Investigate and respond to customer queries relating to freight rates, billing, shipments and master data
• Support annual rate reviews and updates while ensuring data accuracy and completeness
• Generate accurate reports and identify trends, exceptions and opportunities for improvement

Skills

Excel

Data analysis

Attention to detail

Job description

Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us!

With 300+ stores and over 24,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Māui, 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.

Every day, thousands of customers shop in-store or online. To make it happen, our supply chain, one of New Zealand's biggest, keeps everything moving. With over 1,000 team members, we move more than 97.8 million cartons a year, covering 19 million kilometres.

Te Tūranga – About the role

We're looking for a Transport Freight Rating & Master Data Specialist to join our Transport team. This role can be based in either Auckland or Wellington.

In this role, you'll work closely with internal stakeholders and freight customers to ensure customer freight rating structures, billing data and master data are maintained accurately across multiple systems. You'll play a critical role in supporting the end to end financial representation of freight movements where billing accuracy and data integrity is a must.

You'll be responsible for managing freight rates and master data workflows, investigating and resolving queries, maintaining data quality and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.

You'll Also:

• Maintain and update customer freight rates, master data and related information across multiple transport systems
• Perform freight rating validations, billing reconciliations and data quality reviews to support accurate customer charging
• Investigate and respond to customer queries relating to freight rates, billing, shipments and master data
• Support annual rate reviews and updates while ensuring data accuracy and completeness
• Generate accurate reports and help identify trends, exceptions and opportunities for improvement

Benefits:

• Free carparking and 5% discount at our retail stores
• Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday and long service leave
• In-house learning and development programmes, flu vaccinations and social network groups (we call them Tribes)

You're a detail-oriented professional who enjoys working with data, problem solving and takes pride in delivering accurate, high-quality work. Whether your experience comes from freight, supply chain, finance, master data or another industry, you'll bring strong communication skills, numerical accuracy and a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.

We're looking for someone with:

• Exceptional attention to detail and a high level of numerical accuracy
• Experience processing invoices, billing activities or working with complex data sets
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, lookups and data analysis
• A collaborative approach, strong organisation skills and the ability to manage competing priorities effectively
• A continuous improvement mindset and willingness to identify opportunities to improve processes, reporting and data quality

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 and 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 further information or reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process, please reach out to ***************@foodstuffs.co.nz so we can support you to participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

Don't 'shelve' your potential, come be a part of our team!