Field Sales Representative

Field Sales Representative
- Sales
- Christchurch
- Full-time
- New Zealand

If you are a peoples person with sales background and a love for coffee, looking for a role to springboard you into an exciting corporate sales career, our Field Sales Representative position is an opportunity to explore. In this role, you would travel between a number of our Out of Home customers (bars, restaurants, cafes, petrol stations, hotels, offices etc.) in Christchurch and surrounding areas with some occasional out of town trips.

As a Field Sales Representative, you’d play a critical role in supporting our customers in a full-service style capacity. What does that mean?

In this role, you will:

- Day-to-day account management of a customer base spread across the Christchurch and surrounding areas.
- Attending customer sites, implementing equipment checks on a variety of machines ranging from espresso machines and grinders to automatic equipment placed across a variety of segments including cafes, hotels, petrol stations, leisure and Health Care facilities
- Get behind the machine and WOW our customers with your barista skills, sharing your knowledge and passion for the perfect cup
- Drive incremental revenue and profit by identifying new opportunities and customers within your territory. This may mean you will have some overnight travel.
- Grow customer engagement and expertise by organising and hosting training sessions
- Monitor operating procedures to ensure compliance across our diverse customer base
- Work transparently with clear communication, managing your time and customer call cycle

**Qualifications**:
For this role as a Field Sales Representative we’re looking for someone who has the following skills and experience:

- Previous business development experience is a bonus
- A drive to learn and develop in sales, with an absolute passion for all things coffee and tea
- Coffee industry experience and/or knowledge and barista experience - highly desirable
- A real people person, you get along easily with new people and enjoy building relationships
- Confident and considerate in your approach to customers and new situations
- Full clean driver’s license and the willingness to be on the road the majority of your time
- Unrestricted rights to work in New Zealand indefinitely

Additional Information

**Perks**
- Base Salary and annual discretionary bonus opportunity
- Company car with petrol card
- Work with exciting high-quality brands such as Hummingbird, Jed’s, Gravity, Moccona and L’OR
- Enjoy half a day off on your birthday
- Summertime hours: finish at 3 PM on Fridays during the daylight saving months
- Delicious coffee and tea on-site and quarterly free staff parcels including a range of our coffee and tea brands
- Medical Insurance for you and your family
- Life insurance and Income Protection paid by the company
- Join an experienced and enthusiastic coffee loving team of sales professionals

JDE Peet’s is the world's leading pure-play coffee and tea company, serving approximately 4,200 cups of coffee or tea per second, and is headquartered in the Netherlands. For more than 265 years, we’ve been inspired by the belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee. We unleash the possibilities of coffee and tea in more than 100 countries with a portfolio of over 50 brands including Kiwi favourites such as Moccona, L’OR, Hummingbird, Bell Tea, Jed’s, Ti Ora and more. In 2023, JDE Peet’s generated total sales of close to 15 billion NZD and employed a global workforce of more than 20,000 employees.

We offer our people a range of learning and development programs to support their personal growth and we believe that a diverse and inclusive culture enables us to serve every coffee and tea lover in the best possible way.