Packaging Strategy & Policy Director

Institute of Packaging Professionals; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybride; USD 205 000 - 250 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Paid Vacation & Sick leave 27-42 days/

401(k) retirement plan with employer

Hybrid work arrangement

Office fitness facilities

Résumé du poste

American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) seeks an Executive Director, Packaging to lead issue advocacy and projects around paper-based packaging while building relationships with industry leaders and other associations critical to AF&PA’s work. The role defines strategic priorities and guides goals, policies, programs, and committees supporting AF&PA’s Packaging Sector.

The position includes working with Containerboard, Kraft, and Paperboard sectors, has strong coordination with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in business or communications preferred.
• Ten (10) or more years of experience in a related field or association.
• Understanding of the paper industry, manufacturing industry, and marketplace dynamics.
• Experience managing multiple projects.
• Experience leading teams, staffing a committee and running large meetings.
• Experience developing and implementing budgets.
• Interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain strong relationships with staff, senior management within member companies, industry consultants, and staff from government agencies and trade groups.
• Leadership skills, including taking ownership and being accountable.
• Ability to identify emerging issues and develop strategic plans that support key initiatives.
• Ability to drive large group consensus and decisions on challenging and competitively sensitive issues.

Responsabilités

• Maintain up to date information on the full range of issues impacting the Containerboard and Kraft and Paperboard sector member operations.
• Guide packaging sectors in identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing issues, and integrating business solutions into the Association’s key public policy and marketplace initiatives.
• Collaborate consistently and productively across AF&PA (especially with the Executive Director, Recovered Fiber), on member priorities, and issues and projects that crosscut multiple sectors to ensure that strategies and deliverables are aligned.
• Contribute thought leadership on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR); collaborate with the Executive Director, Recovered Fiber and the VP, Industry Affairs to create strategic approaches to EPR.
• Serve as staff executive for various paper-product group committees (i.e., Containerboard/ Kraft Sector, Containerboard Division, Corrugated Packaging Alliance, and Paperboard Packaging Sector).
• Provide packaging sector members, AF&PA staff and policy makers with relevant and timely business and policy information.
• Participate in membership recruitment and retention for packaging sectors including Containerboard/Kraft and Paperboard.
• Represent AF&PA and actively engage in activities and conferences with allied organizations, and those in which AF&PA is a member (i.e., American Institute for Packaging and the Environment (AMERIPEN)).
• Create written communication and testimony regarding packaging issues.
• Coordinate with AF&PA’s Government Affairs team to advocate and testify to federal, state and local legislative and regulatory bodies on member interests related to packaging.
• Maintain relationships and coordinate with outside interest groups in packaging coalitions and on shared legislative and regulatory goals.
• Prepare and manage budgets.

Connaissances

Leadership

Project management

Public policy

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic thinking

Written & oral communication

Formation

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree in business or communications

Description du poste

American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) seeks an Executive Director, Packaging to lead issue advocacy and projects around paper-based packaging while building relationships with industry leaders and other associations critical to AF&PA’s work. The role defines strategic priorities and guides goals, policies, programs, and committees supporting AF&PA’s Packaging Sector.

The position includes working with Containerboard, Kraft, and Paperboard sectors, has strong coordination with