Key Account Manager – Food Sector

Role Overview

We are passionate about our shared role as Kaitiaki Kai, guardians of food, and have a deep responsibility to do the right thing for food and the environments it comes from. We have an exciting Key Account Manager opportunity available for a person to step into a 8 month fixed term contract at AsureQuality. The purpose of this contract role is to cover for parental leave from July/August 2026 until February/March 2027. This will involve working with customers across New Zealand’s dairy and food sectors.

What You Will Do

Manage and grow strategic customer relationships across the dairy and food sectors, drive revenue growth and achieve sales and profitability targets, lead customer planning, contract negotiations, renewals, and tender processes, identify and develop new customer partnerships and emerging opportunities, collaborate across teams to deliver exceptional customer outcomes, maintain strong market awareness across industry trends and regulatory developments.

Why It Might Be a Fit

To be successful in this role, you will ideally bring 5+ years’ experience in account management, technical sales, or customer relationship management within a B2B environment, strong industry knowledge within the dairy, food, ingredients, agribusiness, testing, or certification sectors, a technical or science-based qualification, proven success building, growing, and managing customer portfolios, strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, a proactive, resilient, and solutions-focused approach.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience in account management, technical sales, or customer relationship management within a B2B environment
• Strong industry knowledge within the dairy, food, ingredients, agribusiness, testing, or certification sectors
• A technical or science-based qualification
• Proven success building, growing, and managing customer portfolios
• Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
• A proactive, resilient, and solutions-focused approach

Benefits

• Competitive salary and incentive scheme
• Company vehicle, laptop, and mobile phone
• Flexible base location – Auckland or Christchurch
• Supportive leadership committed to your development and success
• Wellbeing initiatives and employee benefits
• Opportunity to work with some of New Zealand’s leading dairy and food sector customers