About Halter
At Halter, we’re on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices. Imagine watching 500 cattle stand up and walk calmly towards their next break? No quad bikes, no dogs, no fences. Just a group of cattle walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic. Our customers are revolutionizing grazing with Halter. It’s changing lives and transforming an industry. People join Halter to do meaningful work. By joining us you’ll be solving challenging problems within a talented team and a culture built for high performance. Our team out-think, out-work and out-care. We’re committed to delivering real change in the world – this isn’t easy, and in truth, we love that it’s hard.
We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, BOND, DCVC, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures.
To find out more, visit our LinkedIn & Instagram.
About the role
This is a role with eye watering scope to shape an industry. It will certainly not come easy, but if you want to truly impact an industry that the world depends on, whilst building a world-class corporate function, this is that chance. These don’t come around often.
We are searching for a second driven and skillful sales hunter to grow and manage Halter’s Corporate accounts across Queensland. We are looking for someone with X-factor across the sales cycle, someone who builds and harvests connections, a hunter at heart and deep experience driving complex sales cycles. You will be leading the growth of Halter across some of the largest farming businesses in the world, building relationships with key stakeholders, and playing a key role in the success and growth across existing corporate clients.
Could be a bit of you? You’ll be an expert at building trusting relationships, identifying opportunities within an organisation and navigating key stakeholders in order to build and progress a pipeline of opportunities. You will know how to build urgency and navigate the constraints of corporate clients. You’ll thrive in high pressure environments, using initiative to make results happen, often against the odds. You might find yourself in a boardroom negotiating a multi-million dollar contract one day, reporting key KPI’s to a GM the next day and on farm meeting ops managers the next. You’ll masterfully navigate corporate layers, adjusting your communication at each level accordingly, to convey the right context and value to all parties.
This isn’t a typical role. This is a high stakes role, playing a critical role in Halter’s growth into the corporate market segment. Aside from jumping on the Halter roller coaster, you will be making a real world impact, making farming more productive and sustainable. You will build relationships across Australia’s most influential farming leaders, while working closely with senior leaders and the exec team within Halter.
What your day could look like
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Sales meetings: Understanding the business structure, needs and problems of large, multi dimensional farming businesses. Work with them to clearly communicate functionality, benefits and opportunities for Halter to add value relative to each enterprise. Manage the end to end sales process, navigating complex negotiations through to close.
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Prospecting/Networking: You will be consistently prospecting and networking;Finding opportunities and driving pipeline growth. This might include a range of initiatives, be it events, cold calls, nurture emails, and other methods that you will be expected to own in order to drive your own pipeline growth. You will be networking with every board member, influencer, senior leader or connection to your corporate accounts. You’ll be known in the community and continue to grow your personal brand and network.
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Account Strategy: You will be responsible for creating and executing on an account strategy for every potential or existing client. This will include stakeholder engagement plans, meeting cadence, key value insights and every detail in between to ensure success for that account.
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Account Management: You’ll be working closely with existing clients to continue building relationships, drive value across the organisation with close collaboration with other Account Managers, and clearly articulate value back to clients. You will be working with these clients to drive expansion opportunities and accelerate the roll out of Halter technology.
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Cross functional collaboration: Work closely with product, customer success and support teams to ensure exceptional results for corporate accounts.
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Forecasting: Enable monthly and quarterly forecasting of revenue.
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Growth initiatives: Optimise and evolve the account management strategies to accelerate growth, whilst becoming more efficient, and more predictable as the company scales.
Who are we looking for
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Experience working with enterprise customers, navigating complex sales cycles and expanding value over time. You’ll likely have strong networks already.
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A hunter with a strong understanding of complex sales cycles, how to create urgency and accelerate deal cycles.
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Strong ability to work cross functionally.
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A deep passion for helping farmers succeed. Experience in farm systems or within the agricultural sector would be a strong bonus.
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A phenomenal attitude and a team player with the ability to consistently overcome challenges.
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The ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced working environment with a high degree of autonomy.A hunger for success and personal growth to be able evolve quickly alongside a world class sales team.
Our Benefits
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Healthy body, healthy mind. We’re partnered with Medibank Health Insurance to support your well-being.
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We offer 6 months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 4 weeks of fully paid secondary caregiver leave and many other parental benefits that support you and your family.
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Our personal growth is important. Halter offers an annual $1000 self-development budget to be used for anything that fuels personal growth.
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Our time to recharge is valued, we’re offered wellness leave and unlimited paid annual leave.
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Importantly, we offer an inclusive and attractive remuneration package made up of salary, benefits and an employee stock ownership plan.
Halter in Australia
Halter first entered Tasmania two years ago and today operates on over 30% of the state’s dairy herd – a thriving customer base managed by a talented, local team. More recently, Halter has expanded across mainland Australia with the regulatory approval of virtual fencing, and is now available for beef and dairy operations in Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory. Halter is also preparing to launch operations in West Australia in the coming months. Australian farmers have welcomed Halter with open arms, and we’re fielding strong demand from farmers throughout Australia who are keen on Halter.
Join our team
Halter is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace — a place where we can each be ourselves and do the best work of our lives. Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the requirements, women and under-represented groups of candidates tend to only apply when they meet every requirement. If you think you have what it takes but don’t necessarily tick every requirement on this job description, please still get in touch and apply to Halter. We’d love to chat to see if you’ll be an epic fit!
If this opportunity sounds like you, please apply below by sending through your cover letter explaining why you’re excited about this role and working at Halter, along with your CV, and we’ll be in touch!
Please also feel free to check out the careers page for more information on working at Halter and don’t forget to follow us on LinkedIn & Instagram.
Why our team loves working at Halter:
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Work that genuinely matters. Every now and again a company comes along that transforms an entire industry and leaves the world in a better place. Our team gets to be part of something truly meaningful, helping farmers improve their livelihoods, spend more time with their families, and build more sustainable operations.
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Spectacular people solving hard problems. Our culture is designed for talented people to do work that changes lives. The team is filled with diverse, kind, and driven people who push each other to do their best work. You’ll be thrown into the deep end, tackling complex challenges and building something tangible that solves real problems.
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You’ll grow here. Autonomy, mastery, and learning define how we work. You’ll have the freedom to work on interesting problems, master new skills, and continuously develop yourself, both through your role and our $1,000 personal growth fund.
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This isn’t easy, and we love that it’s hard. Working at Halter will be the most rewarding and the most challenging work of your life. We move fast, take bold bets, and work hard to reshape an entire industry. As one team member put it: “Joining Halter is a bit like strapping yourself to a rocket ship, but it’s an epic journey to be a part of!”
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