Cellar Door and Private Sales Manager (Wine Jobs: Sales & Marketing)

  Rippon Vineyard & Winery Ltd

  Central Otago,New Zealand, Otago

After five years on the farm, Rippon’s wonderful Cellar Door Manager is leaving for pastures new and we are looking for a new team member to join us from May 2025 as our Cellar Door and Private Sales Manager.

This is a full-time position based onsite in Wānaka, managing both Rippon’s Cellar Door and our private customers.

Key tasks include:

• Responsibility for Cellar Door and private client invoicing, stock management and inventory

• Oversight of the online Cellar Door booking system

• Recruitment and support of Cellar Door staff

• Maintenance of online webshops, including order processing

• Management of wine club and mailing list. This includes writing newsletters, customer engagement and identifying growth strategies

• Management of private tours and tastings

What we’re looking for:

• A dynamic and enthusiastic person with proven sales/marketing experience

• A team player with the flexibility to work occasional weekends

• An excellent communicator, both in writing and face-to-face

• Someone with a love of good wine and understands the importance of kaitiakitanga/guardianship

• Someone with initiative, a keen eye and a willing mind, ready to spot opportunities and grasp them

• A person with an existing and ongoing right to work in New Zealand beyond a Working Holiday Visa

• Someone who can join us from May 2025

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Please send a cover letter and CV by no later than 31st March 2025.