In-Store Food & Beverage Sampler & Demo Host

Orbit Marketing; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 27,552 - 41,328; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive hourly rate

Paid training

Flexible shifts

Job summary

Orbit Marketing is seeking warm, food-loving individuals to host sampling stations inside Wellington supermarkets. The role involves engaging with shoppers through product sampling and cooking demonstrations, providing a fun and interactive experience. Key requirements include a sales-minded approach and the ability to comfortably handle food and engage with customers. Flexible Sunday to Wednesday shifts allow for work-life balance. Join a supportive team and get paid training in a fun environment!

Qualifications

• Enjoy food and drink and love talking about it with shoppers.
• Warm, approachable, and happy to start conversations with shoppers.
• Comfortable preparing simple recipes in front of an audience.

Responsibilities

• Host sampling stations inside Wellington supermarkets.
• Prepare simple dishes to demonstrate products live.
• Keep workstation clean, inviting, and food-safe.

Skills

Sales-minded approach

Customer engagement

Food handling and safety

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 Wellington 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 Wellington 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 Wellington 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
  
  

Tell us when you apply:

Whether you're keen on sampling shifts, cooking shifts, or both, there's plenty of work in all three lanes.

If you love to share great food and drink with Wellington shoppers, we'd love to hear from you. Submit your expression of interest to our Recruitment Manager and tell us a bit about yourself! We look forward to connecting with you soon.