National Business Manager - New Zealand

The SunRice Group is an Australian ASX-listed branded food group, comprising multiple businesses, assets and operations across Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, the United States, The Pacific Islands and Asia.

SunRice was built by the Australian rice industry over many decades, and today is one of Australia’s leading branded food exporters, with approximately 2,000 employees and operations in 11 countries. SunRice is a great place to work, providing a real opportunity for passionate people to make a difference.

About the National Business Manager, NZ role:
As the National Business Manager for New Zealand, you will be responsible for managing the business, developing & delivering growth strategies, and representing SunRice with all key stakeholders in NZ. This standalone role is accountable to achieving budgeted sales volumes, profit and market share. The role works directly with channel & function leads in Australia, helping to deliver to the overall ANZ business strategy. Responsible for the overall management of the NZ retail channel, an experienced Business Manager who can autonomously represent SunRice and who can effectively represent the NZ business to and collaborate with head office teams in Australia. The successful candidate will have the ability to simultaneously work across multiple channels, customers and product categories.

What are we looking for in a National Business Manager? What’s important?

• 15+ years experience performing similar duties to what’s described above
• In depth understanding of the New Zealand FMCG market, and can apply this knowledge to account/channel specific activities
• Experience across diverse categories, working largely with distributors
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Key personality traits characteristics should include resilience, energetic, self-starter, leadership, motivated, and opportunistic

Extra points for the following (not essential):

• Degree qualified in Business/Marketing related discipline
• Technical aptitude to facilitate sales in the food categories channel
• Project Management experience

Just a few of MANY perks include:

• Competitive salary, plus a 10% STI component
• Corporate discounts across gym memberships, Bupa Health insurance, travel, car rental & home removalists
• Access to staff allowances of SunRice products weekly!
• Banking benefits with our partnership with CommBank

If this opportunity excites you, we encourage you to apply today!

Here at the SunRice Group, we believe there’s no such thing as the 'perfect candidate.’ If you resonate with many of the outlined criteria, don’t let imposter syndrome hold you back.

Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we’re looking for. We’d love to hear from you!

All correspondence will be dealt with in strict confidence.

SunRice is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. SunRice will consider qualified applicants for employment based on their merit, individual skills, qualifications, and other appropriate criteria relevant to the role for which they are applying.