Bring your passion for Store Development & Design and help shape the future of our brands!

The Warehouse Group looks after some of Aotearoa’s most famous and beloved retail brands, including The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, Noel Leeming, Torpedo7, and TheMarket. They stay famous and beloved because we’re always working to deliver relevant and exciting customer (and employee) experiences to New Zealanders, including a growing focus on doing good for the community and keeping sustainability top of mind in everything we do.   

Reporting to the Chapter Lead – Store Development and Design, you will play a key part in improving the store design and customer environment through planning and detailing retail layouts for 4 of our brands – The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, Noel Leeming and Torpedo7.

In this role, you will be responsible for the ‘doing’ of the retail environment. You will be the expert in implementing retail environment plans and projects and will work to deliver these projects, anything from dropping a rack to supporting specific category works (for example our Grocery roll out in various stores) to launching a new store. You will work to ensure costs, quality and scope of work is managed closely by working with both internal and external stakeholders.  

Your Role:

• Delivering new stores, refits and category works across our 4 brands
• Management of store builds and project development
• Improving the customer environment & experience via store design
• Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders & 3rd parties to bring together design briefs and technical drawings
• Planning & designing new retail layouts based on merchandise requirements & ideal customer journeys
• Creating layouts and applying store rationale principles to optimise the store environment
• Understanding how design decisions impact project costs and feasibility
• Designing customer centric fixtures to maximise space, product profitability & customer engagement

We would love to hear from anyone with previous project management experience, preferably in retail. With no two store layouts the same, we need someone who has excellent problem solving skills and the ability to use creative thinking with a commercial and analytical mind-set.  You will also be able to manage multiple priorities & deliver projects on time and within budget. 

Our wish list also includes:

• Retail space management experience
• Understanding of NZ building fitout compliance, ideally in a retail context
• Understanding of how to bring together and execute visual merchandising principles
• Ability to work with internal stakeholders and 3rd parties to bring together design briefs and technical drawings
• Ability to use a balance of customer, strategic, product and commercial elements into a coherent design

Our structure and ways of working will see you extensively work cross functionally hence your collaboration skills will be top notch, coupled with the customer centric lense and approach you bring to work everyday. You are someone responsive, adaptable and has a continuous improvement approach towards what you do. You will have a test and learn mindset and hold an openness to new ideas and a desire to develop them together with others.

We acknowledge that not all candidates will be able to tick off all of the above, so on that basis, if you have the right mindset and are genuinely passionate about retail design and store development we would still love to hear from you.

We offer a dynamic, supportive team environment within a business that cares about and recognises individuals. We offer a range of benefits that work for you, your lifestyle and your career which include:

• Discounts across most of our brands
• Paid birthday day off
• Free parking at our Northcote Support Office
• 26 weeks paid parental leave (for permanent team members)
• A range of wellbeing support 
• ..... and much more!