Territory Manager

Job Description

Territory Manager

• •Opportunity to grow your career with Kraft Heinz!
• •Flexible work arrangement
• •Collaborative and dynamic work environment

Kickstart Your Career with Kraft Heinz!

Are you looking to grow your career in Sales ? Do you want to join a dynamic team with a proven track record of internal growth and career advancement opportunities? We have an exciting permanent opportunity for a Territory Manager to join our New Zealand Sales team, based in Dunedin .

This is a fixed term position from July 2026 until August 2027.

The Company

The Kraft Heinz Company is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world, with eight $1 billion+ brands and global sales of approximately $25 billion. Our brands are truly global, with products produced and marketed in over 40 countries. These beloved products include condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, infant and nutrition products, and numerous other grocery products in a portfolio of more than 200 legacy and emerging brands.

Key position responsibilities include, but not limited to:

Territory Planning & Performance: Uses available data to understand performance drivers and identify opportunities, develop and execute store and territory plans to improve results.

Customer Engagement & Relationship Building: Builds productive relationships with buyers, owners, managers, and store teams. Listens actively to understand each store’s needs and tailor communication and engagement style based on customer preferences.

Selling & Influencing: Shares recommendations confidently and uses persuasive selling techniques, creating win-win outcomes securing distribution, ranging, and display opportunities.

Perfect Store & Merchandising Execution: Executes merchandising standards, relays, and planograms accurately and on time. Ensures products are well‑stocked, visible, and aligned with guidelines.

Ways of Working & Continuous Improvement:

Manages routines, time, and priorities effectively across multiple stores.

Approaches challenges with a positive mindset, seeks feedback, and looks for opportunities to learn and improve.

Uphold the Kraft Heinz values and to work in a way that contributes to the company’s vision.

Compliance & Safety: Perform assigned tasks in accordance with all Kraft Heinz Food Safety, Environmental, Health and Safety, and Ethical and Human Resources policies, programs and goals.

What you'll bring:

Competent in Excel and able to interpret basic data outputs.

Applies Sales fundamentals with the support of Regional Field Sales Manager

Sales & Commercial Skills: Demonstrates effective retail execution by identifying clear sales opportunities, interpreting simple store data, and communicating practical recommendations in a clear and relevant way.

Relationship & Communication: Builds strong, trusted relationships through active listening, thoughtful questioning, and adapting communication to different stakeholders while working collaboratively to resolve issues.

Personal Effectiveness: Manages priorities across multiple stores with organisation and resilience, showing initiative, ownership, curiosity, and commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

Experience in interpreting, selling, and presenting with data and insights

Ability to work independently, as part of a team and work under pressure to tight deadlines

Highly organised and commercially astute

Ready to make an Impact?

If you're a results-driven Sales professional, a collaborative team player, and passionate about delivering value, we want to hear from you. We will review applications on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close this job posting at any time.

Location(s)

Dunedin

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes .