In-Store Food and Beverage Demonstrator

Orbit Marketing; Napier; On-site; NZD 30,000 - 41,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive hourly rate

Paid training

Real variety of duties

Supportive team

Flexible shifts

Job summary

Orbit Marketing in Hawke's Bay Napier is seeking friendly hosts to run sampling stations in Napier and Hastings supermarkets. The role includes pouring samples and live cooking demonstrations, with training provided and flexibility to focus on your preferred shift type.

Enjoy a warm, sales‑minded environment suitable for hospitality or food experience, with shifts that fit around study or other commitments, and a supportive team. Safety and presentation are emphasized throughout each shift.

Qualifications

• Warm, food- and drink-loving personality required or training provided.
• You’ll need to be comfortable doing sampling or live cooking demos, or both.

Responsibilities

• Host sampling stations in Napier and Hastings supermarkets, pouring samples and engaging shoppers.
• Conduct live cooking demonstrations or sampling shifts as needed, keeping a tidy, hygienic station.

Skills

Sales mindset

Communication

Hospitality experience

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 Hawkes Bay team works across major supermarkets including Woolworths, New World, and Pak'nSave.

About the role:

We're looking for warm, food and drink-loving people to host sampling stations inside Napier and Hastings 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 June alone our team will be running cooking demos for the Wattie's Soup campaign and pouring samples for BOSS Coffee—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). We have immeidate shifts for the following dates, plus more!

• 3rd July 2:30pm - 6:30pm
• 4th July 11:30am - 3:30pm
• 5th July 11:30am - 3:30pm
• 9th July 2pm - 7pm
• 11th July 11am - 4pm
• 12th July 11am - 4pm

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