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“My career approach has always been to continue learning, being challenged, to be curious and to try different things. I’ve long realised that linear career paths in a single field are the exception and not the rule”
Richard Parker,
The Warehouse Group
Richard Parker is the chief human resources officer at The Warehouse Group (TWG), New Zealand’s largest general merchandise retailer, which employs 12,000 people across New Zealand and Asia. He has been with TWG since 2019 and in his current role since 2020.
Richard has over 20 years of experience in senior legal and human resources roles in a range of industries including law, forestry, television, telecommunications and retail.
“My career approach has always been to continue learning, being challenged, to be curious and to try different things,” he says. “I’ve long realised that linear career paths in a single field are the exception and not the rule.”
He began his career as a litigation lawyer at Chapman Tripp, one of New Zealand’s leading law firms, before moving to the Fletcher Challenge Group, New Zealand’s largest industrial company, as corporate legal counsel. Whilst there, Richard was involved in significant mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring activity for the forestry division.
26 The Warehouse Way, Northcote, Auckland, New Zealand
021 582 653
richard.parker@thewarehouse.co.nz
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Richard Parker
Chief Human Resources Officer
The Warehouse Group
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Year 7 Community Leader and Leader for Learning Technologies and Platforms at Northern Beaches Christian School
Master of Business Administration, 2017–2019
2021
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2022
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Ascend Financial Services
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“My sole goal is to continue being challenged and excited about what I do, so I feel I am growing professionally. With that approach I have found great opportunities have come along – not always when I expected them, though”
Richard Parker,
The Warehouse Group
Subsequent to Fletcher Challenge, he held senior HR roles at Spark New Zealand, where he was involved with firstly the operational and then structural separation of its retail business from its network business, which transformed the NZ telecommunications industry, and then TVNZ, New Zealand’s national television broadcaster.
Richard has extensive experience in leading significant organisational transformation, including helping TWG become the first multi-brand retailer in the world to move to fully agile ways of working, which is all about driving better customer experience and faster speed of execution. He is also focused on growing TWG’s talent density, developing future agile leaders for TWG and New Zealand, and preparing all TWG employees for the future of work.
Ultimately, Richard is passionate about empowering TWG’s team members to support the Group’s vision of making sustainable living easy and affordable for everyone.
Looking forward, he says, “My sole goal is to continue being challenged and excited about what I do, so I feel I am growing professionally. With that approach I have found great opportunities have come along – not always when I expected them, though.”
Richard holds an LLB (Hons) and MPhil (Hons) from the University of Auckland.