Working for Vendella, I love how every day when I come to work it feels like I am part of one big family. Everybody is happy to see you. We work hard but have a good laugh, and everybody is supportive of each other.

Being the Social Media Manager and Marketing Coordinator means I cover all things online. I ensure the website is always up to date so our customers know exactly what they can purchase. I create communications for our social media platforms, so that our customers can interact with us, and always know about the awesome things we’re doing.

What gets me out of bed in the morning? Knowing that I get to work in a job that I love, where I get to be creative at work and work with a team that supports me to succeed.

I am creative in many ways, outside of work I love to paint, play several different instruments, and sing!

I love working at Vendella because of the team! Everyone is so friendly and helpful no matter if it’s with work or personal life. It feels like family already!

Here at Vendella I am the bubbly person on the end of the phone helping with any inquires and placing orders.

What gets me out of bed in the morning? I would say getting to come to work with a lovely bunch of people who all share one goal.

I love spending time with my young nieces and nephew, playing sports and going on adventures with friends.

Vendella gives me the opportunity to learn alongside a great team of people. The team is full of passionate, happy people always willing to do what’s best for both our internal and external customers.

Here at Vendella I help Kathy with the purchasing of stock, ensuring we can supply our customers with a range of great quality products at an affordable price.

Outside of work I enjoy cooking and spending time in the sun, along with a spot of online shopping. Going to see my family in the Manawatu and visiting the unseen sights of NZ, is where I spend my holidays.

The friendly, positive and passionate environment that the team create, is what I love about Vendella!

My role is to assist Mike and Luke in their roles – so includes a bit of everything which I enjoy.

I am very much intrinsically motivated so getting out of bed in the morning is easy when there’s a new challenge to face and the sun is shining!

Hobbies would have to be cooking – especially for my friends and family, and I love getting outdoors.

I love this job! The people, the team. We’ve got the best chocolates here. It’s a real privilege to be working at Vendella

I help people raise the guest expectation as in providing good bedding products and in room items that really set a higher standard, so they can increase their revenue, in turn increasing their bottom line. Its pretty rewarding when you see a review come through from a guest to one of our customers saying how much they loved staying at their place.

I love waking up to sunshine.

I love working for Vendella because we are like one big family and you feel like you can be yourself. Sometimes I’m under pressure but I really love my day being filled with lots of challenges. I want to do everything I can to make the company better.

I focus on innovations and product development. So, watch out I’m going to bring a lot more stuff to the company!

I am a workaholic with 2 children so at the moment I am doing my best to get the work-life balance right.

Working with a great team, seeing the business grow and looking after the people that work here is what I enjoy about working at Vendella. One of the things I really get enjoyment out of is innovating new products. We are expanding our furniture range quite extensively so that’s another cool thing about working here.

From day to day I look after foreign exchange, local and overseas payments. I work with the innovations team to come up with new products that meet the needs of the market.

I’m inspired to get out of bed for 2 reasons. 1. it’s not really a cool place to stay any longer than you need to. and 2. to get to work and get stuck in with the team.

What I love about Vendella is that I’m part of a winning team. At Vendella we have a strong work ethic of winning, which is not always about ‘coming 1st‘ but better defined as striving to get ahead.

I love working alongside a bunch of great people who are truly passionate about getting ahead at work and at home which is very infectious!

My role at Vendella has 2 parts; Firstly; To make sure each part of the company is moving in sync so everyone can do their bit to help the customer without anything slowing them down.

Secondly; The other side to my role is strategy. I spend a good part of my day planning 6 months, 1 year, 3 years ahead, trying to understand how global trends will affect our industry and how we can best answer your needs today, tomorrow and beyond.

What inspires me to get out of bed every morning? If it’s the weekend, it’s my wife & three energetic daughters but on week mornings it’s seeing the company progress and our team getting ahead which ignites my fire because my motto is ‘What am I going to do today to make the company better than it was yesterday”

Other than that, I am a pretty calm type, I’m a fan of a classic bbq and have a soft spot for getting out amongst nature.

What I like most about working for Vendella is the opportunities it provides me. Mostly in the space of helping people and improving people’s lives.

What gets me out of bed? Seeing the team develop and (with my owner hat on) knowing I have the ability to help them with their learnings, goals and aspirations. And that I can help support them with their schemes and dreams outside of work too. ‘Creating winners” is a catchphrase I use! 😊

‘Teach people so well they can leave. Treat them so well they stay” is a good quote.

I work in sales, helping our clients. What I enjoy most about that are the face to face meetings, getting in touch with the clients themselves at their properties, or through phone calls understanding their needs and providing the best solution for them. Creating winners through delivering good service and product and being good at what we do

What you don’t know about me….my spilt personality! During my work week I need as much social company as I can get and on the weekend I get as far away from civilisation as possible with my wife and two daughters.

I like that we are passionate about continual growth. We’re never just satisfied with what we did last week, month or year. We want to improve everything we do. Everyone gets an opportunity to put forward an idea and act on it.

I spend my time working to grow the business, looking for new opportunities, trends and innovations. Every day is a deadline for our customers and we’re here to help them with our products and services, so it is important we are the best we can be.

I’m inspired to make a difference in the lives of our clients and those around us, helping people within their roles and lives. We had a client yesterday say, ‘boy you guys make my life so easy” and I was so spurred by that.

I cut hair – that’s my second job. I’m a barber and practice on a couple of the guys here. I’ve got a little boy who’s 6 years old, he’s my occupation outside of work. My other commitments are my family and community activities.

What I mainly enjoy about Vendella are the people, both internal and external. People in hospitality tend to have a happy nature and disposition. There are always lots of laughs and different things going on. The sales team always try to stretch the boundaries and many team members have a very comical nature.

My role is anything and everything accounts related. Things that are important to me are doing a good job and doing it right. It helps the customer experience. When a customer phones I’d rather not put them on to someone else, that they are not transferred to several different people. It’s important to acknowledge people are busy just like us.

I get out of bed to get things done for my customers and place of work. I like the challenges of meeting deadlines. I’m passionate about my garden and pets.

Vendella is the most innovative and values-driven business (out of hundreds) I have worked with; the team is 100% driven to do the very best for both their customers and each other.

My role is the company’s inhouse bean-counter; helping to make sure that Vendella is viable for the long-term, and capable of withstanding the substantial trading headwinds of today’s world.

I’m inspired by faith, family and food to get out of bed each morning!

What I love about Vendella is the opportunity that each day brings to learn, collaborate with the team and make a difference.

Being part of the marketing team, it’s our job to connect with customers and potential customers to showcase our range, eliciting the “need” to indulge in retail therapy!

I am inspired to get out of bed by the potential that each day brings to add value, to learn something new and get better at what I do.

Having recently done a renovation, we are busy putting the house back together and making it our dream space. Otherwise my time is spent being a taxi to my 10 year old daughter, spending sunny days at the beach and trying to get back into a fitness routine!