About the Opportunity
Park Supplies & Playgrounds is a playground design, manufacturing, installation and maintenance business that has been in the playground industry for over 35 years. They have a comprehensive range of high quality, New Zealand made playground and outdoor fitness equipment for schools, councils, early childhood education centres, architects, landscapers, holiday parks and many other commercial customers.
Park Supplies & Playgrounds make fully customisable playgrounds designed specifically for the community. They work with clients to make the process as easy as possible, whilst at the same time ensuring they deliver a playground that themselves and their children will love.
The business is growing, and it’s a great time to join the existing sales team.
This newly created role will be working remotely, covering the entire South Island, which means you’ll need to be a self-starter and highly autonomous. There will be regular travel across the region to meet clients. You will be responsible for selling full playgrounds and playground equipment to schools, councils, landscape architects, and developers.
The successful candidate must be based in Christchurch.
- This is a fantastic hunting and account management role in a New Zealand owned and operated business with manufacturing on site.
- This role is responsible for selling full playgrounds and playground equipment to schools, councils, landscape architects and developers.
- You will work customers to identify their playground requirements and then liaise with the in-house design team to bring the clients playground to reality in the factory and then installation.
- Your day to day will include presenting playground designs and pricing to customers, gathering feedback for further design customisation or price revision. You will also visit customer sites to assess space, design and equipment installation parameters.
- This is an end-to-end sales role - you will manage the customer relationship from needs assessment through to proposal presentation, closing the sale and then after sales follow-up.
- You will participate in playground marketing activities such as trade shows, conferences and in-house content creation.
What You’ll Bring
Parks Supplies & Playgrounds are looking for a proven sales achiever with a track record of consistently achieving and exceeding sales targets, driving measurable growth, and contributing to overall team success.
- You will have proven sales results, business development and relationship management experience. Experience in selling equipment or outdoor products as well as knowledge of the Council and or school market would be useful.
- You will have a genuine interest in “play value” and a desire to develop the skill to deliver fun, imaginative playground customer solutions
- You will be highly capable at building relationships and being able to spot sales opportunities. You will also be comfortable talking to a diverse range of customers.
- Authentic, genuine relationship builders will do well in this role. Self-starters who are comfortable working autonomously as well as being part of an awesome and supportive team.
- You will be highly organised in your approach and very comfortable with account plans, using CRM processes, KPI’s and sales templates – a structured approach is essential to succeed in this role.
- Role requires travel around the South Island
Next Steps?
To keep things simple, we ask that all applications are submitted through this advert. We’ll review applications as they come in and be in touch.
For any questions give Siobhan Chaney a call on 0272062735 and quote Job ID: 17261 for a confidential chat.
To apply for this vacancy, you MUST be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in New Zealand and therefore hold a valid visa.
At the appropriate stage we will request your references, we ask that you do not include them on your CV when applying.
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