Wellington

Senior Category Manager

05 / 05 / 2026

  • Wellington
  • Permanent / Full Time
  • Marketing / Product Manager

Description

About the Role

A well established, market leading business is looking for a Senior Category Manager to lead their category team. Reporting to the Head of Marketing in Auckland, this is a genuine leadership role with influence across the business.
  
The role leads six Category Managers – from innovation and NPD through to range reviews, SKU rationalisation and margin management.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead category management including range reviews and commercial performance
  • Own the NPD pipeline and Stage Gate process across the full product lifecycle
  • Translate data and market insights into category strategies that drive innovation and profitability
  • Develop and coach a team of six Category Managers
  • Drive SKU rationalisation, pricing strategy and margin optimisation
  • Partner with internal stakeholders across the ANZ business and key external customer groups

Key Experience 

This does not need to be a traditional category hire. Strong marketers with solid leadership and commercial credentials with a passion for data are encouraged to apply.

  • 5+ years in marketing, category, brand or product management
  • Proven people leader with experience developing high-performing teams
  • Process and data driven; strong project management and stakeholder management skills
  • End to end product lifecycle experience and familiarity with category reviews
  • FMCG or product led environment experience highly regarded

Why Apply?

  • Medical insurance (personal + dependents), life and disability cover
  • On-site carpark, gym, wellbeing and L&D programmes
  • Flexibility – 3 days in office, 2 days WFH
  • ANZ exposure 

Apply now or reach out to Bethany Taplin on bethanyt@huntercampbell.co.nz for a confidential discussion.

  • Lead a strong and established category team
  • Great perks including medical insurance for yourself and dependents
  • Gracefield location with flexibility and WFH

Apply now

Commercial Manager

28 / 04 / 2026

  • Wellington
  • Permanent / Full Time
  • Accountant - Chartered / CPA / Accounting

Description

Breadcraft is a fourth-generation, family-owned New Zealand baker behind two of the country’s best-known bread brands: Rebel Bakehouse and Cottage Lane. Having scaled into Australia and South East Asia, and boosted by the high-demand specialty wraps and gluten-free products, the business is now entering its most ambitious growth phase yet.

This is a newly created role, built to support the next stage of Breadcraft’s export expansion. The Commercial Manager will have a seat at the table alongside the GM, Head of Sales and Marketing, Head of Operations and the Directors, providing the financial intelligence and commercial rigour to drive strategy, shape route-to-market decisions, and evaluate growth opportunities overseas.

This is not a reporting function. It is a genuine strategic partner role with real visibility across the business.

Responsibilities include:

  • Lead the end-to-end annual budgeting process across all business units
  • Build dynamic financial models to support scenario planning, sensitivity analysis and long-term forecasting
  • Act as a strategic partner to functional leaders across Sales, Marketing, Operations and HR
  • Evaluate new business opportunities, investments and projects using ROI, NPV and IRR analysis
  • Develop dashboards and KPI tracking tools to monitor performance against growth targets

Ideal profile:

  • You’ll bring strong financial modelling capability, FMCG understanding and ideally manufacturing and/or export experience.
  • Strong commercial and financial acumen with a track record of influencing business decisions
  • Excellent Excel and financial modelling skills
  • FMCG and/or channel experience preferred
  • Export experience highly regarded
  • Comfortable operating in a lean, high-trust environment where you will have real visibility and influence
  • Support ambitious international growth plans
  • Key strategic business partner to the ELT and Directors
  • Masterton location

Apply now

Interim COO

23 / 04 / 2026

  • Wellington
  • Contract or Temp
  • Management / Transport / Logistics / Drivers

Description

About the Company

We are partnering with a fast-growing, entrepreneurially led business based in Lower Hutt that has scaled at an extraordinary rate over the past 12 months. The business imports raw materials which are processed and manufactured on-site before being exported to customers globally, operating in an environment subject to strict compliance requirements.

The founders have built something impressive in a short space of time and now need to invest in getting the supply chain and operations function fit for purpose, fast. This person will be coming in to do just that. 

About the Role

This is a hands-on role with impressive scope. You will quickly assess immediate priorities and build the structures, processes and disciplines from the ground up. This is about fixing current operational flaws, and implementing future structure – personally driving the work from the front line, not simply advising and directing.

The initial focus will be inventory management and accuracy, before extending across purchasing, demand planning, warehouse execution, document control, and compliance frameworks. The business is also relocating its warehouse in the coming months, and you will take a lead role in ensuring the new site is set up correctly from day one.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Setting a basic foundation and executing a clear, prioritised improvement plan.
  • Building robust inventory management processes that deliver accuracy, visibility and control.
  • Establishing purchasing, demand planning and warehouse execution processes that are fit for purpose and scalable.
  • Developing SOPs, document control, and compliance frameworks.
  • Leading the warehouse relocation, ensuring the new site is operationally sound and compliant from the outset.
  • Coaching junior team members across planning, purchasing and inventory, building a capable team for the long term.

About You

You are a senior supply chain/operations professional who thrives when given the mandate to build from the foundations up. You are not someone who needs a perfect environment – you are the person who creates one, cleaning up existing issues as you go. You combine sharp operational instincts with the credibility to bring a leadership team on the journey with you.

You will need to bring:

  • A strong track record of building and improving supply chain functions in physical-goods businesses, with a sleeves up approach.
  • Deep working knowledge across inventory management, purchasing, planning and warehouse operations.
  • Experience in a regulated environment, with confidence across compliance, storage, distribution and documentation requirements.
  • The drive and decisiveness to assess quickly and act with confidence – you will need to hit the ground running.
  • Genuine people development skills, with the ability to build capability in junior team members.
  • Experience managing a warehouse relocation or new site setup would be a distinct advantage.

  
If you are a senior operator who relishes the opportunity to build something meaningful and leave a lasting impact, we would love to hear from you. 

For more information or to reach out for a confidential discussion, please contact Joe Francis on 021 197 9121 or joef@huntercampbell.co.nz

  • Initial 6 month FTC
  • Based in Lower Hutt, Wellington
  • Ideal gig for an experienced, hands on, senior Supply Chain/Ops professional

Apply now