Trade Sales Assistant

**NZ Safety Blackwoods**

**Trade Sales Assistant (Part Time - Hastings)**:
**Hawke's Bay, Hastings, Hastings Central**

$27 - $27 Hourly
- Permanent Part time

**Start Date**: July 12, 2025

**Hours Per Week**: 5
- **Quarterly sales incentives**:

- **Great staff discounts on a wide variety of products**:

- **Great Career opportunities in a long-established successful NZ heritage business that is growing**

We have an exciting opportunity for a new Trade Sales Assistant to join our Trade Centre based in **Hastings**

Hours of work are **Part-Time**, totaling **5 hours** on **Saturdays**working **8:30am - 2:00pm.**

Are you an experienced salesperson who loves helping customers find what they need for the job they're doing? Having good knowledge of PPE, Hardware or Apparel will be a definite advantage however is not essential as product training will be provided.

Key Responsibilities:

- Interact with customers, identifying their needs and presenting solutions across our wide range of products and services
- Provide world-class customer service - Ensuring customers are always the number one priority
- Liaise with support teams to ensure customer requirements are met accurately and on time
- Ability to assist with store presentation and visual merchandising standards and selection of products to sell
- Maintain stock levels on shelves ensuring appropriate stock rotation
- Handling, packing and dispatching inwards and outwards goods
- Assist with maintaining accurate inventory within the store
- Will have a strong retail or other sales background
- Previous experience selling any of our product categories such as: Power Tools & hardware or Safety Footwear & PPE is advantageous but not necessary.
- A great attitude, energy and desire to learn and grow is a must. We have had many successful team members transfer from other retail and sales industries and they all have shared these traits.
- Sales Driven with a desire to exceed targets and be rewarded for high performance
- A friendly, outgoing personality with excellent communication skills, enthusiasm and a team player
- A problem solver who can turn challenging situations into a win/win
- Will have a passion for customer service coupled with a ‘can do attitude’
- Will be physically fit and thrive on working in a fast-paced environment

About Us:
At **NZ Safety Blackwoods**, we are passionate about providing expert knowledge and solutions to our customers. We have a strong reputation as a market leader providing industrial solutions for apparel, footwear, safety, engineering, tools and packaging.

With Trade Centres across New Zealand, as well as a diverse sales team, digital platform and call centre, our goal is to make it safe, easy and efficient to do business whilst providing access to a vast product range covering all business needs.

**NZ Safety Blackwoods** is all about taking care - taking care of our customers, our community and each other.

**Benefits**:

- Quarterly sales incentives
- Great staff discounts on a wide variety of products
- Work with a diverse business with a huge product range (selling market-leading brands like Milwaukee, 3M, Blundstone, Makita, John Bull, Teng Tools, and King Gee to name a few )
- Great Career opportunities in a long-established successful NZ heritage business that is growing
- Opportunity to work extra hours over holiday periods

**_ NZ Safety Blackwoods_**_promotes and adheres to the principles and practices of diversity._ _We are also very proud to be a _**_Mates In Construction_**_ Impact Premium Partner and partner of the _**_Million Metres Streams Project._**

**Reference Number**: 47KDY

**Profession / Role**:

- Retail / Retail Assistant

**Employer**: NZ Safety Blackwoods

**Date Posted**: 11th Jun, 2025

**Date Expires**: 11th Jul, 2025