Life at Griffin's Snacks

Here at Griffin’s Snacks, we get it – work’s important, but it’s not the only thing in your life, so we focus on ensuring our people can enjoy genuine work-life balance, flexible working options and the opportunity to really make a difference in our community!

We employ over 800 people across New Zealand, and every single person plays a key part in keeping our business moving – from sourcing great quality potatoes to deliver to our factory, to creating the recipe in our trial kitchens for our next exciting product launch, to physically operating the machines that make delicious snacks, through to ensuring stores near you are well stocked with our products.

Working with super exciting brands and products like Eta, Cookie Bear, Squiggles and Snackachangi, means it is impossible not to have some real fun along the way.  We’re big believers in making the workplace enjoyable and engaging for our teams, whilst also driving and delivering the results needed to ensure consumers continue to purchase and enjoy our products for the next 160 years!   

When joining our team, these are some of the things you could expect depending on your role and base location…

• Supportive working environment where you’ll feel engaged and valued
• Focus on learning and development – we’re passionate about growing our people and really walk the talk on supporting our team to build their professional skills and careers within the company!
• Flexible working hours to suit your lifestyle – including working-from-home options where these make sense
• Plenty of snacks for you and your family to enjoy (including samples of new products and access to our discounted staff shop)
• Community related initiatives including paid volunteer days for you (and the wider team) to give back to the community
• Wellbeing initiatives like paid wellbeing days, option to purchase additional annual leave, flu jabs and gym memberships
• Birthday leave, so you can celebrate you!
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave benefits
• Discounted health insurance when you sign up with our with associated provider
• Rewards and recognition initiatives including our Rewards Gateway Programme, offering discounts at 400+ retailers
• Long Service Leave to thank and recognize those who have contributed to our company for many years!
• Family friendly events - we know that behind many of our team are some amazing support crews and we love to include them in events like our annual Family Days and sports competitions!
• Exposure to career opportunities both locally and abroad – when you join Griffin’s Snacks, you are also joining the Intersnack international network!
• Shift leave, allowances and great overtime rates available for certain roles

Note that some of the above will differ depending on the type of job you accept within our team, but whatever role you are in and location you are based at, you can expect to be genuinely cared for – we put our people at the heart of all we do!