In-Store Food and Beverage Demonstrator

Orbit Marketing; Hamilton; On-site; NZD 28,000 - 39,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive hourly rate

Paid training

Flexible shifts

Supportive team

Job summary

Orbit Marketing in Hamilton is expanding its casual Brand Ambassador team to host in-store sampling stations and live cooking demos in major supermarkets. You'll pour samples, plate bites, and share what makes each product special, with the option to do both or focus on your preferred shift.

Shifts are mostly weekends with flexible weekday options; training is provided, and a neat, hygienic station is expected.

Qualifications

• Enjoy food and drink and love talking about it with shoppers.
• Sales-minded, able to turn samples into opportunities.
• Comfortable handling food and presenting products in-store.

Responsibilities

• Host sampling stations and pour samples to shoppers.
• Perform live cooking demos or sampling-only shifts as needed.
• Maintain a tidy, hygienic, and brand-aligned station.

Skills

Warm & approachable

Sales minded

People communication

Hospitality experience

Education

Food Safety certificate (NZ)

Job description

About us

Orbit Marketing is an established marketing agency bringing some of the world's best-loved food and beverage brands to life inside New Zealand supermarkets. We specialise in in-store product sampling and cooking demonstrations, creating genuine, tasty moments that turn a weekly shop into a discovery. Our Hamilton team works across major supermarkets including Woolworths, New World, and Pak'nSave.

About us

Orbit Marketing is an established marketing agency bringing some of the world's best-loved food and beverage brands to life inside New Zealand supermarkets. We specialise in in-store product sampling and cooking demonstrations, creating genuine, tasty moments that turn a weekly shop into a discovery. Our Hamilton team works across major supermarkets including Woolworths, New World, and Pak'nSave.

About the role

We're currently building out our casual team of Brand Ambassador's, and we're looking for warm, food and drink-loving people to host sampling stations inside Hamilton supermarkets. Roughly half our shifts are straight product sampling—pouring, plating, and offering shoppers a taste while sharing what makes the product special. The other half are live cooking demonstrations, where you'll prepare simple dishes in-store to show a product in action.

You can do both, or focus on the type that suits you best. To give you a sense of the variety: in this month alone our team will be running demos for the Wattie's Frozen Meals campaign and pouring samples for Celsius —two very different shifts, both equally important.

A sampling shift might involve pouring chilled drinks into tasting cups, plating bite-sized portions, and chatting with curious shoppers. A cooking shift adds a portable hotplate and a simple recipe you'll prepare live. Either way, you'll keep your station clean, inviting, and food-safe throughout the day.

Shifts

Mostly Wednesday to Sunday, with flexibility to choose your own availability. Demos typically run during peak shopping hours (late morning through early afternoon on weekends, and mid afternoon to early evenings on weekdays).

This role suits you if you

• Enjoy food and drink and love talking about it with shoppers
• Have a sales-minded approach—you make every sample an opportunity to turn a shopper into a buyer, and you're motivated to hit targets
• Are warm, approachable, and happy to start conversations with shoppers
• Have hospitality, barista, deli, food truck, catering, retail sampling, or home-cooking experience (any of these is a great fit, and none of them are essential, we train you!)
• Are comfortable preparing simple recipes in front of an audience, OR happy sticking to sampling-only shifts, OR keen to do both
• Take pride in a tidy, hygienic workstation
• Can stand for the length of a shift and carry sampling equipment to and from your car

Practical requirements

• Access to a vehicle and a current New Zealand Driver's licence (you'll transport demo kit between stores)
• Eligible to work in New Zealand
• Available weekends (Saturday and Sunday are our busiest days)
• Comfortable handling food and drink safely. A current Food Safety / food handler certificate is a bonus, but we provide training if you don't have one
• Well-presented and happy to wear branded uniform

What we offer

• Competitive hourly rate
• Paid training across both sampling and cooking demos, including food safety and product knowledge
• Real variety—one week you might be pouring iced coffee for BOSS, the next plating up Wattie's soup
• A supportive team and a genuinely fun environment
• Flexible shifts that work around study, family, or another job