Trade Sales Assistant (Full Time - Drury)

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NZ Safety Blackwoods is hiring a Trade Sales Assistant for its new Drury Trade Centre, a full-time onsite role in Auckland. The job blends customer-facing sales with storeman duties, computer tasks and manual handling, ideal for someone with retail or trade sales experience and a knack for helping customers find PPE, hardware or apparel solutions. You’ll be the first point of contact, assess needs, liaise with suppliers, maintain stock and support store presentation. The right candidate is sales driven, tech savvy, an excellent communicator with a can-do attitude and comfort with POS and inventory systems. Apply now, tailor your CV to show relevant experience, targets and teamwork. Diversity is valued and opportunities abound.

We’re looking for a Trade Sales Assistant to join our brand new Trade Centre based in Drury.  

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.

This isn’t your standard sales role! Its varied and fun! Other aspects of the role include storeman work, computer work and some manual handling.

This role is full time, hours to be discussed during the interview process.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be the first point of call for customers walking through the door
• Interact with customers, identifying their needs and presenting solutions across our wide range of products and services
• Liaise with support teams including suppliers by phone, email etc to ensure customer requirements are met accurately and on time.
• Ability to assist, maintain and improve 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

Our Ideal Candidate:

• Proven experience in a similar role within the retail, sales and/or trade sector
• 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
• Tech savvy and can pick up new technology with ease
• A problem solver who is able to turn challenging situations into a win/win
• Will have a passion for customer service coupled with a ‘can do attitude’
• Computer skills to process point of sales counter sales, use of outlook for emails etc

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.

Benefits:

• Quarterly sales incentives
• Work with a diverse business with a huge product range selling market leading brands
• Great staff discounts
• Great career opportunities in a long-established successful NZ heritage business that is growing

Apply now and join the NZ Safety Blackwoods journey!

NZ Safety Blackwoods promotes and adheres to the principles and practices of diversity.