Sales Project Manager (Remote)

Step into 2025 with an exciting self-led role in the vibrant QLD playground industry, where you’ll drive sales, manage impactful projects, and shape playground spaces that inspire kids to go further. If you’re looking for a fresh challenge in 2025, want to work and win in a meaningful industry, have strong sales experience with a get it done attitude, we’d love to hear from you!

About MATTA

MATTA is a New Zealand company that provides world-leading safety surfacing solutions for playgrounds, industrial, and fitness areas all over the world. Since founding over 30 years ago, we’ve been making our products in New Zealand from recycled and recyclable materials. We pride ourselves on our quality product, innovation, sustainable approach to manufacturing, and fantastic relationships with our global customers.

We have a nimble leadership and sales team servicing New Zealand, Australia, North America and the United Kingdom. Sales are a mix of direct and indirect channels, with a key focus on providing great customer solutions.

About the role

We have been selling our range of playground safety surfacing in Australia for over 15 years. We employ Sales Managers in Victoria and New South Wales and are now looking to repeat this successful model in Queensland.

We have product installed across many landmark QLD sites, with demand for safe and sustainable surfacing growing in QLD and nationwide. We are now seeking an experienced salesperson who is passionate about sales and project management to represent, lead and drive our growth in QLD.

Key aspects of the role include:

• Managing a variety of B2B and B2G customers including schools, councils, municipalities, and property developers.
• Nurturing and managing key stakeholder relationships with Landscape Architects, playground equipment manufacturers, park maintenance teams and primary contractors.
• Driving a sales strategy that leads to winning new customers and business.
• Visiting customers and customer sites, performing site measure ups, building quotes and closing sales;
• Project/Job management, which will include working closely with our installation contractors to ensure deadlines are met and quality objectives are achieved.
• Ensuring 3PL stock is allocated and picked in accordance with your job scheduling.
• Leading and maintaining MATTA’s reputation in QLD as a solution focused and quality playground surfacing provider; and
• Travel within QLD, with some national and international travel from time to time.

You will receive direct support from our Auckland NZ based head office.

About you

You will excel in this role because:

• you have a proven record as a successful salesperson, and are passionate about business growth and project management;
• you’re a motivated self starter looking for a genuine long term opportunity that you can build on and manage;
• you have a strong work ethic and disciplined approach to what you do;
• you’re an entrepreneurial and strategic thinker, but know how to look after the details;
• you’re comfortable with working autonomously and look to be rewarded for your own efforts, but appreciate being part of and working with a close knit team;
• you’re practically minded and a good problem solver. You’ll be able to co-coordinate and oversee our installation teams, including periodic involvement in the physical side of the job; and
• you have worked in B2B or B2G sales, are solutions focused and go the extra mile.

Ideally you will have experience in the playground or parks and recreation industries, although not essential.

Remuneration will be a combination of base salary and commission, plus car, phone and expenses.

This is a great opportunity to join a globally focused NZ / AUS business with a compelling story, quality products and that is poised for growth in QLD and throughout Australia. If this sounds like the role for you, we’d love to hear from you.