Where Can My Career Go?
There are endless opportunities to manage your career at The Warehouse. With 89 stores, over 100 different types of roles and supported learning opportunities for all our team members, you’re bound to have a varied and interesting career with us.
"I’m passionate about providing opportunities for all our team members to keep learning and having the chance to develop themselves and their career to the level that suits them. This is so that they feel they are getting growth, being a team member within The Warehouse."
Paul - GM People Support - Stores & Community
Potential career paths
The Warehouse offers opportunity and experience whether you’re returning from overseas, starting out in your career, looking for a more challenging role or want a part time job to fit around your studies or your family, we have a career path to suit.
Example of a traditional career path in stores
We encourage our Team Members in store to have career conversation with their managers – whether they’re looking to step up to their next in-store role or they want to diverse into either our Store Support Office or Distribution Centre.
Example of a traditional career path in merchandising
 Daniel, Business Analyst |
Non-traditional career path
Please find below two examples of the variety of non traditional career paths that so many of our team members have travelled. Please click here to check more out.
Daniel’s first role with The Warehouse was filling shelves in the Pakuranga store on Sunday mornings. He’s since moved into a variety of roles including; Cashier – Service Desk Team Member – Supervisor – Payroll Officer (in our Support Office) – Payroll System Administrator – Payroll Projects – and now….. IS Business Analyst.
 Lisa, Senior Buyer |
Lisa started in our Store Support Office filing in our Accounts Payable department. She then progressed through to; Accounts Payable Junior – Accounts Payable – Trainee Buyer – Buyer – and now… Senior Buyer
Graduates
The Warehouse offers graduates a variety of options;
We have our Store Manager Development Programme which is a structured programme managed in 3 phases and allows you to learn all the aspects of running your very own store. We recruit once a year for this programme and advertise through Grad Connection and via updates on our careers website.
October to January is the busiest time of our retail calendar. Each year, during this period, we employ an extra 2,000 to help provide our customers with the service they expect. This is an excellent way for you to earn extra cash and find out what it’s like to work in retail. And, you’ll also enjoy our team discount – to buy all those Xmas pressies for your family! Click here to check out more about Xmas Temp recruitment.
In our Store Support Office, based in Auckland, we have around 500 people employed in various departments from merchandise through to marketing, finance, people support and loads more. We often have entry level roles available in our departments. These roles provide an excellent opportunity for you to gain entry into the business and become hooked by our fun, exciting and fast paced environment that only retail careers can offer!
What we provide to support you in your career development
Its one thing having a variety of career options available in an organisation, but it’s another thing knowing about what’s available, knowing how to get there and feeling supported along the way. Here is where we offer our Team Members are variety of support options.
Career Coaches – your dedicated People Support Business Partner and our in-house recruitment specialists have all been trained on how to provide you with career counselling. Team members are encouraged to meet with one of these people to discuss further opportunities either within their store or department or within the company.
We offer an extensive training and development programme for team members in our Store Support Office and for Team Leader and above roles in our stores.
We’re encouraged to all have our own personal ‘Individual Development Plan’ or IDP as we call it. This is a living plan that is updated frequently, depending on your commitment. One of one meetings are scheduled twice a year with your manager to discuss your IDP and see how they can help you achieve your goals.
We hold internal career fairs which enable team members to come along and see for themselves the variety of roles available across the organisation and it also provides the opportunity to ask questions and meet people who are currently in those departments.
And we also make the process of applying for a new role within the business, fair, transparent and easy.
