Sales Representative

Sales Representative – Grocery (Parental Leave Cover, 8 Months)

Auckland – North Shore / West Auckland Preferred

Your Impact

As a Sales Representative – Grocery, you will play a key role in supporting the Field Sales team across a dedicated grocery route during an 8-month parental leave cover. This role is responsible for delivering strong in-store execution, maintaining high service standards, and growing the performance of the Asahi Beverages portfolio across a stable grocery customer base.

You’ll work within a highly structured, task-led call cycle, focusing on execution excellence, promotional compliance, and identifying opportunities to grow range beyond core listings in partnership with store owners.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage an established grocery customer base of approximately 70 accounts across Auckland and up to Wellsford, including Pack & Save, New World, Four Square, Woolworths, Fresh Choice and one wholesaler.
• Execute structured call cycles, ensuring all customer tasks, promotional activity and sales initiatives are completed to standard.
• Deliver strong in-store execution across brand, pack, price and promotional activity to meet volume, distribution and financial targets.
• Drive compliance to core range and proactively identify opportunities to expand recommended range and additional distribution.
• Support NPD execution and ensure promotional plans are implemented accurately in store.
• Maintain high merchandising standards where required, particularly across non-alcoholic products, including shelf presentation, ticketing, pricing, stock rotation and planogram compliance.
• Support occasional relays as required when retailers reset ranges in line with head office planograms.
• Build strong relationships with store decision makers and key staff through consistent, professional engagement.
• Represent the business with a high level of professionalism, customer service and commercial discipline at all times.

About You

• You bring experience in retail or field sales, ideally within FMCG or grocery environments, and are comfortable working within a structured, task-driven sales model.
• You are commercially minded, resilient, and confident influencing store owners to consider ranging opportunities beyond core products.
• You have strong communication and customer service skills, with the ability to plan, prioritise and execute effectively across a defined call cycle.
• You are detail-oriented, organised, and take pride in delivering consistent in-store standards and execution.
• You are based in Auckland, ideally North Shore or West Auckland, and are comfortable managing a large, static customer territory with minimal new business activity.

Why Asahi Beverages?

Asahi Beverages is one of Australia and New Zealand’s leading beverage companies, home to some of the region’s most iconic brands including Asahi Super Dry, Peroni, Boundary Road, Summersby, Penfolds, Wolf Blass, Squealing Pig and Lipton Iced Tea.

We are a values-led organisation committed to performance with purpose, offering rewarding careers, strong development opportunities, wellbeing initiatives and a collaborative, inclusive culture. As a Circle Back Initiative employer, we are committed to responding to every applicant.