National Sales Manager

14 / 10 / 2026

  • Auckland
  • Permanent / Full Time
  • National Sales Manager / National Field Sales Manager / Sales

Description

About the Company
Our client is a well-regarded New Zealand beverage brand with a loyal following and a reputation built on quality. They partner with some of the country’s best hospitality operators and are growing across multiple channels.

The Role
Reporting directly to executive leadership, you will own national revenue, forecasting and sales performance across New Zealand. This is the senior commercial seat in the NZ business, with real authority to make local calls and shape how the brand grows in market.

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead, coach and develop a field team of Account Managers and BDMs across both islands
• Own national revenue, forecasting and sales cadence, reporting monthly to senior leadership
• Build a national distributor network from scratch, starting in the South Island
• Win and grow multi-site hospitality accounts at the premium end of the market
• Own the national equipment budget, ROI decisions and technical service partners
• Drive CRM discipline across pipeline, forecasting and account management
• Chair the monthly NZ leadership forum and be the brand’s senior face in market
• Bring a clear New Zealand lens to group decisions, and push back when something doesn’t fit

Key Skills & Experience Required:
• 5+ years’ B2B sales leadership with a strong record of revenue growth
• Proven leader of field-based sales teams, with genuine coaching capability
• Commercial background in FMCG, beverage, foodservice or hospitality supply
• Experience establishing and managing distributor relationships
• Track record managing multi-site or group hospitality accounts
• Strong financial literacy, forecasting skills and advanced CRM capability
• Confident negotiator who can influence senior stakeholders and hold a view
• Coffee or specialty beverage experience highly regarded
• Full NZ driver licence

What’s in it for you
This is a rare chance to be the senior commercial voice for a premium brand, with leadership that wants decisions made locally, not routed elsewhere. You’ll have the autonomy to build, including a distributor network that doesn’t yet exist. The package reflects the seniority of the seat: a strong base, bonus, car and tools of trade, with the flexibility to be based in Wellington or Auckland.

Benefits:
• $130k–$150k base plus bonus
• Company car
• Tools of trade
• Flexible base location, Wellington or Auckland
To be considered for this position, please submit your CV via the link below. For a confidential discussion, email Danielle Dunn at danielled@huntercampbell.co.nz

  • Senior NZ commercial lead with genuine autonomy | Lead a field sales team
  • Build a national distributor network from the ground up
  • Premium brand, premium hospitality customer base

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Accountant

14 / 10 / 2026

  • Bay of Plenty
  • Permanent / Full Time
  • Accountant - Chartered / CPA / Accounting

Description

About the Company
Our client is a well-established New Zealand business with a strong reputation and a genuine focus on growing great people. Finance sits close to leadership here, and the function plays a visible part in how the business is run.

The Role
Working alongside the General Manager and CEO, you will lead the finance function across cashflow, reporting, tax and compliance. You will also step into strategic planning, building the forecasting and insight that help leadership make commercial decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage cashflow daily, weekly and on a rolling 13-week basis
  • Represent the business on the treasury committee and manage currency risk
  • Deliver monthly reporting including P&L, budget vs actual, balance sheet and margin analysis
  • Own GST, FBT, R&D credits, statutory filings and year-end audit information
  • Oversee creditors, credit control, bank reconciliations and payroll
  • Administer the fixed asset and depreciation schedule
  • Build budgets, forecasts and three-year plans with the General Manager
  • Develop predictive models and recommendations for the CEO
  • Lead direct reports, act as ERP super user and coordinate IT and operational HR support

Key Skills & Experience Required:

  • Professional accounting qualification (CA/CPA or equivalent)
  • Two or more years’ experience in a similar role producing monthly and annual financial statements
  • Working knowledge of modern ERP systems
  • Advanced Excel and Microsoft Office skills
  • Strong analytical and abstract reasoning skills, with clear written and verbal communication
  • Sound knowledge of GST, tax and statutory compliance
  • Comfortable leading a small team and balancing a broad, hands-on remit
  • Strong organisation skills and a customer-service mindset with internal stakeholders

What’s in it for you
This is a broad, hands-on finance role where your work is seen and used. You will work closely with the CEO and General Manager, shaping budgets and three-year plans, with a remit that spans treasury, tax, reporting and systems. For a qualified accountant, it offers real commercial influence in a business that backs its people.

To be considered for this position, please submit your CV via the link below. For a confidential discussion, email Nadia Macpherson at nadiam@huntercampbell.co.nz.

  • Broad and varied remit across treasury, tax, reporting and systems
  • Lead a team in a values-led, people-focused business
  • Genuine commercial influence in a high visibility role

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Senior Operations and Distribution Manager

14 / 10 / 2026

  • Bay of Plenty
  • Permanent / Full Time
  • Transport / Logistics / Drivers / Warehouse & Distribution

Description

About the Company

Our client is a well-established New Zealand business with a strong reputation for quality and service. They are continually investing in their operation and in the people who lead it.

The Role

Reporting into the national supply chain leadership team, you will lead a large distribution operation and the people who run it. You will turn supply chain strategy into clear site priorities, owning safety, inventory integrity, service and cost, and leading the improvement work that takes the operation to the next level.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own inventory integrity, cycle counting and stock adjustment performance
  • Fix the root causes of inventory variance across processes and systems
  • Lead improvement projects using benchmarking and performance data
  • Lead, coach and develop the site leadership team and wider workforce
  • Set safety leadership standards and own critical risk controls
  • Drive DIFOT and service performance with freight and sales partners
  • Own the site operating budget, capacity planning and MHE fleet
  • Build strong partnerships across the wider business

Key Skills & Experience Required:

  • Proven leadership in a large-scale supply chain or distribution operation
  • Proven warehouse management experience with a strong improvement track record
  • Deep inventory control capability; confident with ERP/WMS systems
  • Analytical and data-driven, with strong commercial acumen
  • People leader who builds capability and holds standards
  • Safety-first mindset with experience owning site risk
  • Tertiary qualification in supply chain, or equivalent experience; CLTD or CPIM advantageous
  • Understanding of freight costs and transport partner management highly advantageous

What’s in it for you

This is genuine operational accountability: your own site, your own budget and a clear mandate to optimise it. Inventory, systems and continuous improvement sit at the heart of the role, with the backing to deliver real change rather than maintain the status quo. With leadership development and succession planning built into the business, there is plenty of runway. 

To be considered for this position, please submit your CV via the link below. For a confidential discussion, contact Joe Francis on 021 197 9121 or email joef@huntercampbell.co.nz.

  • Genuine ownership of a large distribution operation
  • Inventory, systems and improvement agenda with real backing
  • Based in beautiful BOP - lifestyle and career development all in one!

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Financial Accountant

14 / 10 / 2026

  • Auckland
  • Permanent / Full Time
  • Accountant - Chartered / CPA / Accounting

Description

About the Company
Our client is a well-established New Zealand business with a strong reputation and a collaborative finance team. They value people who bring sharp commercial thinking and a positive, team-first approach.

The Role
Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will manage month-end, financial reporting, budgeting and compliance for the business. You will also support payroll and day-to-day accounting, and provide clear financial insight to the Leadership Team to guide commercial decisions. This is a hands-on role with no direct reports.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Complete month-end and cyclical processes, and prepare monthly financial reports
  • Prepare annual accounts and guide the team on compliance work
  • Support budgeting, cash flow forecasting and variance analysis against plan
  • Manage foreign exchange cover in line with company policy
  • Oversee accounts receivable to support debtor collection targets
  • Support GST, PAYE and tax return preparation and filing
  • Process payroll and manage business asset and replacement schedules
  • Drive process and systems improvement, and deliver ad hoc projects for the Finance Manager and Leadership Team

Key Skills & Experience Required:

  • Inventory experience is essential
  • 3 to 5 years’ experience in an accounting or finance role
  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or a related field
  • CA / CPA qualified or working towards it is preferred
  • Strong experience preparing financial statements and management accounts
  • Advanced Excel and accounting software skills, ideally Exo or similar
  • Sound knowledge of NZ tax, including GST and PAYE returns
  • Payroll processing experience
  • Able to explain financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders

What’s in it for you
This role offers flexible hours and the autonomy to manage your own workload. You will sit close to the Leadership Team, with real exposure to commercial decisions. The breadth across reporting, tax, budgeting, payroll and process improvement builds a strong platform for your next step in finance.

To be considered for this position, please submit your CV via the link below. For a confidential discussion, email Nadia Macpherson at nadiam@huntercampbell.co.nz.

  • Broad remit across reporting, tax, budgeting and payroll
  • Genuine autonomy in how you manage your workload
  • Collaborative, easy-going finance team

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Commercial Associate

12 / 10 / 2026

  • Bay of Plenty
  • Permanent / Full Time
  • Consulting & Strategy / Project Management

Description

About the Company
A successful large, well-established New Zealand business operating in a genuinely complex commercial environment. It’s an exciting time to join, with a future-focused strategy recently set, and meaningful projects to deliver. The scale of the business gives you real breadth, and the pace means you learn
quickly.

The Role
Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, you will work alongside the CEO and Executive Leadership Team to translate strategy into actionable, well-run projects. You will work with key leaders to translate priorities into plans, business cases, and delivered outcomes across the organisation.

The remit is deliberately broad. In any given quarter, you might be building the business case for an enterprise initiative, leading a review of the organisation’s pricing approach, coordinating a cross-functional project team, or preparing the material that shapes an executive or Board decision. There are no direct reports in this role. Your influence comes from the quality of your thinking and your ability to bring people with you.

This role has been designed with a career pathway in mind. It exists to give a high performer an enterprise-wide view of how a complex business actually works, and to build the commercial and leadership foundation for future roles.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support the development, review, and execution of organisational strategy
  • Lead and coordinate strategic projects sponsored by the CEO and executive team
  • Build business cases, strategic recommendations, and executive decision material
  • Conduct research, data analysis, and market assessment to identify opportunities and risks
  • Lead a strategic review of the organisation’s pricing approach
  • Track progress against strategic priorities, milestones, risks, and benefits realisation
  • Prepare briefing papers, presentations, and reporting for executive and Board forums
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams and support change and continuous improvement activity

Key Skills & Experience Required:

  • Tertiary qualified in business, commerce, economics, science, or a related discipline
  • Ideally management consulting background, or project or programme management experience in a large, complex organisation
  • Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect analysis to commercial outcomes
  • Proven ability to run cross-functional projects to time, scope, and benefit
  • Data-driven and analytical, comfortable building the numbers behind a recommendation
  • Confident engaging, influencing, and holding senior stakeholders to account
  • Change management, transformation, or pricing experience is an advantage
  • Resilient, curious, and comfortable operating in ambiguity

  
About You
You connect the dots. You can sit in a room with an executive team, understand what they are actually trying to achieve, and translate it into something the business can execute. You are commercially savvy and analytically strong, but your real strength is people. You build relationships quickly, you influence without authority, and you bring teams together across functions to get things done.

You are resilient, and you want to learn. This is a role for someone ambitious about where they are heading and with a desire for continuous improvement.  

What’s in it for you
Few roles give you executive exposure this early in your career. You will work shoulder to shoulder with the CEO and executive team, see how strategy is set and delivered across every function, and build a track record that positions you for career development and growth in the business.

Benefits:

  • Southern Cross Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance, Income Protection and Trauma cover
  • Employer superannuation contribution tax is paid by the employer, so you get the full amount in your KiwiSaver fund
  • Birthday leave
  • Ability to purchase an extra week of leave each year
  • Flexible working with options to work from home, balanced with on-site time alongside the executive team
  • On-site parking, phone and laptop provided
  • A role built as a pathway into future leadership
  • Work directly with the CEO and executive leadership team
  • Enterprise-wide projects
  • Future career pathway in the business

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