Territory Manager

About the role

As a Territory Manager at Halter, you will play a critical role in driving business growth and ensuring customer success within your designated territory. You will be responsible for executing sales strategies, building strong customer relationships, and meeting ambitious growth targets, all while acting as Halter's on-the-ground representative. This role requires a proactive and hands-on approach, with a focus on both expansion and long-term customer satisfaction.

In this role, you will prioritise daily efforts that optimize growth performance and drive value for your customers. Working closely with cross-functional teams, including Product, Support, and other regional sales teams, you'll share field insights to ensure Halter's technology continues to meet the needs of farmers. Your contributions will directly support Halter's mission to support 50% of the world's habitable landmass to be more productive and sustainable.

This role would ideally be located anywhere in the Otago region. Frequent travel is required as part of the position.

Who are we looking for - these skills are essential for this role and reflect how we operate every day. We expect applicants to demonstrate evidence of these requirements in their resume, cover letter and interviews.

• Attitude: You naturally play for the front of the jersey. Make those around you better. Thrive under pressure and own your results. You bring authentic energy and passion to every interaction.
• Sales & Customer Success Expertise: You will be a high-performing value-based salesperson, with a strong history of creating opportunities, closing deals, and building lasting customer relationships. You understand post-sales value building and have experience upselling to grow partnerships.
• Beef Industry Experience: You know the ropes of beef operations, understanding the unique challenges of the industry. If you don't, you will be deeply passionate about it, and willing to dive deep into the operations of a farm to learn rapidly.
• Territory Management: Able to use critical thinking to manage a large territory with a balanced focus on sales and customer success, making the appropriate trade-offs.
• Problem Solving & Collaboration: Resourceful and quick-thinking, you work well with cross-functional teams to address challenges and drive solutions.
• Willingness to Travel: Frequent travel within your territory to engage with customers and prospects.

What your day could look like

• Prospecting & Expansion: Sourcing new leads and opportunities through proactive outreach, referrals, industry events, and other channels, as well as responding to inbound queries. You'll manage the full sales pipeline from lead generation through to close.
• Hitting Sales Targets: Manage your pipeline and meet high-growth sales targets by screening, qualifying, demonstrating the product, and successfully negotiating contracts with customers.
• Customer Account Management: After the sale, maintain close relationships with customers to ensure their ongoing satisfaction, provide support, and address any challenges they face with Halter's products. You'll also ensure a smooth handoff from sales to customer onboarding and deployment of Halter, helping customers get the most value from Halter's solutions.
• Territory Ownership: A high level of ownership in your territory working with regional agricultural groups to foster deep relationships across the beef industry.
• Customer Onboarding: Assist in owning the end-to-end customer experience during onboarding and deployment of Halter's product, ensuring a smooth transition from sales to implementation.
• Field Learnings & Feedback: Serve as the primary point of contact for gathering customer feedback in your territory. Work closely with Support, Product, and R&D teams to share insights from the field that can drive product improvements and innovations.
• Collaborating with Support Teams: Partner with the Support Team to resolve any issues your customers encounter quickly. You'll escalate problems as needed and ensure that customers in your territory feel fully supported.

Why our team loves working at Halter

• A genuine and shared connection to our mission to make a difference in the world.
• The excitement, risk, and reward of a high-growth technology scale-up.
• The pride of joining an iconic New Zealand technology company growing successfully on the global stage.
• The opportunity to work with and grow together with an enthusiastic, and highly gifted team with diverse backgrounds.
• The opportunity to supercharge your career in a supportive and caring environment.
• Our ideas are truly valued, we are able to move fast, and our impact is real.
• State-of-the-art, dog-friendly office that's been thoughtfully designed right in the heart of Auckland city. Did we mention dogs and cows?
• Delicious snacks and drinks are available for your daily flow.
• Healthy body, healthy mind. We're partnered with Southern Cross Health Insurance to support your well-being.
• We offer 6 months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 4 weeks of fully paid secondary caregiver leave and many other parental benefits that support you and your family.
• Our personal growth is important. Halter offers an annual $1000 self-development budget to be used for anything that fuels personal growth.
• Our time to recharge is valued, we're offered wellness leave and unlimited paid annual leave.
• We offer an inclusive and attractive remuneration package made up of salary, benefits and an employee stock ownership plan.

About Halter

At Halter, we're on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices. Imagine watching 500 cattle stand up and walk calmly towards their next break? No quad bikes, no dogs, no fences. Just a group of cattle walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic.  Our customers are revolutionizing grazing with Halter. It's changing lives and transforming an industry. People join Halter to do meaningful work. By joining us you'll be solving challenging problems within a talented team and a culture built for high performance. Our team out-think, out-work and out-care. We're committed to delivering real change in the world - this isn't easy, and in truth, we love that it's hard. We're backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, DCVC, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab's Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures.

To find out more, visit our careers website ), LinkedIn & Instagram (@lifeathalter).

Join our team

Halter is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace — a place where we can each be ourselves and do the best work of our lives. Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the requirements, women and under-represented groups of candidates tend to only apply when they meet every requirement. If you think you have what it takes but don't necessarily tick every requirement on this job description, please still get in touch and apply to Halter. We'd love to chat to see if you'll be an epic fit

If this opportunity sounds like you, please apply below by sending through your cover letter explaining why you're excited about this role and working at Halter, along with your CV, and we'll be in touch

Please also feel free to check out the careers and culture page for more information on working at Halter and don't forget to follow us on LinkedIn & Instagram.

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