Senior Marketing Manager - Home (13 month contract starting July 2025)

Starting with a single red ‘shed’ over 40 years ago, today The Warehouse Group is home to some of Aotearoa’s iconic brands - The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, and Noel Leeming. The Warehouse is where Kiwis turn for trusted value and our Home category is where aim to we make their spaces better, every day.

This is a hands-on, trade-focused role in our Retail Marketing team – and we are looking for a commercial and retail marketer to join us as Senior Marketing Manager – Home. Drive trading and key campaigns, major trading events, and marketing that connect with Kiwi homes and hearts. You’ll help shape how our Home offer shows up across channels

This is a 13-month parental leave contract, starting July 2025 until end August 2026.  

Reporting into our Category Marketing Lead, this trade driven marketing role is varied and will see you wear your strategic planning hat and keeping hands on with the ‘doing’.  You’ll be a trusted marketing partner and collaborator to our category teams.

• Lead, develop and deliver trading campaigns, including across major trading events, support key business category plans with impactful marketing activity that drive sales, profitability and brand building.
• Lead the Discover, Define, Design & Deliver plans for specific Category, MTE and Brand activity in support of KPIs
• Work closely with creative, media team, merchandising, operations, media, corporate comms and omni experience to ensure marketing activities are integrated providing a cohesive customer experience.
• Work collaboratively with wider Retail Marketing team to ensure alignment and delivery of commercial and customer outcomes across one communications plan
• Manage agreed aspects of Marketing A&P budget efficiently across activity to improve effectiveness and ROI

Your retail marketing background, strategic thinking and trading mindset are an absolute must. Your collaborative approach, commercial acumen, customer mindset and stakeholder management skills means you innately understand key levers and can take stakeholders along on the journey to deliver impactful results. Our wish-list also includes:

• Proven successes delivering results in a similar retail environment
• Broad marketing experience – in a trading/category capacity
• Home category experience will be highly beneficial
• Intensely curious about category/consumer/shopper behaviour and innovative in approach
• Project management skills (managing timelines and budgets)
• A confident interactor and strong communicator – you know how to win friends, influence, negotiate, and push back when needed

Come work with us as we aim to “Help Kiwis live better everyday!”. 

When you join us, we offer a range of benefits that work for you, your lifestyle, and your career.
Our teams balance a hybrid working approach (up to 2 days per week from home). Conveniently located in Northcote, we offer free car parking on-site, EV charging on top of great discounts across brands, wellbeing support and excellent opportunities within the business!   

If you love retail, know what drives customers, and want to make your mark on a much-loved Kiwi brand – we’d love to chat.