National Account Director | Corrugated | UK

Mercury Search and Selection; St Helens; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading packaging firm is seeking a strategic National Account Director to manage key national accounts and execute commercial strategies. The role demands extensive experience in the packaging sector, outstanding leadership skills, and a commitment to driving customer satisfaction. The position offers excellent compensation and benefits within a market-leading organization.

Qualifications

• Experience developing growth in accounts in the packaging sector is essential.
• Outstanding leadership skills with a passion for driving customer satisfaction.
• Excelling as a persuasive communicator, able to build strong relationships.

Responsibilities

• Managing the company’s largest UK account and leading a UK-based account team.
• Agreeing key priorities and KPIs with the National technical resource.
• Driving growth, margin enhancement and value creation initiatives.

Skills

Experience in developing account growth in packaging

Leadership skills

Effective communication

Job description

Are you a strategic commercial leader with a proven record of driving major account growth in the packaging sector?

This is a rare opportunity to step into a high-impact role with the market leader in corrugated packaging. You’ll shape and execute the commercial strategy, lead national accounts to new heights, and enjoy a market-leading package while driving the success of a thriving, innovative company!

National Account Director | Corrugated | UK | Excellent Salary plus bonus and benefits

The most profitable corrugated manufacturer in the world. Offering full in house design, manufacture and delivery this is an unrivalled opportunity to join an exceptional and reputable player within the packaging industry. Recent focuses have been to provide recyclable materials and innovative new product ranges with huge investments across recent years.

You will be responsible for:

• Managing the company’s largest UK account, leading a UK-based account team and liaising closely with the European account team
• Agreeing key priorities and KPIs with the National technical resource to deliver strategic account plan objectives
• Driving growth, CTO, margin enhancement and value creation initiatives to meet customer and business goals
• Identifying and addressing the development needs of team members to maximise individual potential in line with business objectives
• Coordinating cross-functional collaboration to ensure consistent delivery of the commercial strategy across all levels

Key attributes required:

• Experience developing growth in accounts in the packaging sector is essential
• Bringing extensive experience in managing multi-site and high-value key accounts while confidently working with budgets and forecasts
• Outstanding leadership skills with a passion for driving customer satisfaction, achieving budget targets, and delivering sustainable profit and volume growth
• Excelling as a persuasive communicator, able to understand multiple perspectives and build strong relationships while driving continuous improvement initiatives
• Showing exceptional commercial awareness across every stage of the Supply Chain and leveraging this to optimise performance
• Making clear, effective, and timely decisions and communicating them with impact

Are you ready to leverage your packaging expertise and national account experience to drive major growth with a market leader – and in return be rewarded with exceptional benefits and well deserved career advancement?

Get in touch!