Sales Director

Sealed Air Corporation; Madrid; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sealed Air Corporation is seeking a Sales Director for Liquibox Europe who will drive transformational growth across Europe, lead a team of regional sales managers, and forge executive-level customer partnerships. The role requires strategic vision, commercial excellence, and the ability to elevate a high-performance sales culture across diverse European markets.

You will shape growth plans, translate market insights into partnerships, and champion a culture of accountability and results while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Marketing, or related field.
• Advanced business education is a plus.
• Proven track record delivering commercial transformation and growth across multiple European markets.
• Strong experience developing and executing complex sales/market strategies.
• Demonstrated success leading, coaching, and building high-performing sales leadership teams.
• Excellent executive presence, negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent English required; additional European languages are advantageous.
• Experience leading geographically dispersed and culturally diverse teams.

Skills

Executive presence

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Marketing (or related field)

Job description

What does a Sales Director, Liquibox Europe do?

Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value to our stakeholders. In 2025, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in sales and has approximately 16,100 employees who serve customers in 119 countries/territories. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.

The Sales Director, Liquibox Europe is a transformational commercial leader responsible for accelerating growth, strengthening market leadership, and shaping the future commercial strategy across Europe. Leading a team of Regional Sales Managers, this role drives business transformation by identifying new growth opportunities, building executive-level customer partnerships, and creating a high-performance sales culture that delivers sustainable and profitable results.

The successful candidate combines strategic vision, commercial excellence, and people leadership to transform how the business engages customers, captures market opportunities, and develops future sales talent across the region.

Why do we need you?

• Lead the commercial transformation of the European Liquibox business, defining and executing growth strategies that strengthen market leadership and deliver sustainable revenue growth.
• Challenge traditional commercial approaches and drive new go-to-market strategies that unlock growth across customers, products, and channels.
• Build trusted executive-level relationships with key customers, translating market insights into long-term strategic partnerships and growth opportunities.
• Develop, inspire, and elevate a high-performing sales leadership team, creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, and commercial excellence.
• Shape country and market-specific growth plans with clear priorities, milestones, and measurable business outcomes.
• Leverage market intelligence, customer insights, and competitive analysis to anticipate industry trends and identify new opportunities for expansion.
• Partner cross-functionally to align commercial priorities with innovation, operations, service, and product development initiatives.
• Champion a performance-driven culture through rigorous forecasting, execution discipline, and leadership development, ensuring long-term organizational capability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Marketing, or a related field; advanced business education is a plus.
• Extensive experience leading commercial organizations within B2B industrial, packaging, manufacturing, or related sectors.
• Proven track record of delivering commercial transformation, accelerating growth, and leading strategic change across multiple European markets.
• Strong experience developing and executing complex sales and market strategies with measurable business impact.
• Demonstrated success leading, coaching, and building high-performing sales leadership teams.
• Excellent executive presence, negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities, with the ability to convert market trends into profitable growth initiatives.
• Fluent English required; additional European languages are advantageous.
• Experience leading geographically dispersed and culturally diverse teams is highly desirable.

Requisition id: 57234

Relocation: No

Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.