Key Account Manager

About the Opportunity

• CDB Group is an entrepreneurial, innovative business distributing market-leading consumer electrical brands across New Zealand and Australia.
• This Key Account Manager role sits in the appliances portfolio across SodaStream, NutriBullet and Instant Pot, with a strong focus on major NZ retail partners including Noel Leeming, JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman, plus grocery customers.
• You’ll own the day-to-day commercial rhythm across your accounts and categories, ensuring ranging, promotional plans, forecasting and in-store and online execution land on time and deliver results.
• This is a broad, hands-on role where you’ll work closely with internal teams across operations, marketing and wider commercial functions to keep momentum and solve problems fast.
• Full-time, office-based on the North Shore (Rosedale), with CDB moving into a new purpose-built Whenuapai facility in early 2027.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience in key account management or account leadership in FMCG, consumer goods, appliances or a retail supplier/distribution environment.
• Strong commercial discipline: confidence working with sales, margin, pricing, promotional cadence and forecasting.
• Solid Excel capability and comfort interpreting sales data, asking smart questions, and turning insights into action.
• High attention to detail across submissions, product information, documentation and execution.
• A proactive, resilient, “make it happen” style. You build relationships, hold the room when needed, and follow through.

What’s on Offer

• A high-ownership role with real impact across customer outcomes and category growth.
• Work with recognised, in-demand brands and major NZ retailers.
• Variety in your day across account management, forecasting, launches and execution.
• Join a business that values pace, initiative and people who back themselves.

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 Josh Pidduck a call on [+64 22 639 2831](tel:+64 22 639 2831) and quote Job ID: 18534 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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