Remote Flexible Packaging Sales Manager (NE/Chicago)

Optify Search; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Optify Search is seeking a Sales Manager - Flexible Packaging to drive growth in the Northeast USA and Chicago Territory, managing key accounts and pursuing new opportunities.

Remote role with responsibility for revenue, profitability, and strategic account plans across food, beverage, pharmaceutical, healthcare, and consumer goods markets. Strong experience in flexible packaging and enterprise-level selling is required.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of sales, account management, or business development experience within the flexible packaging industry.
• Experience selling flexible packaging solutions into food, beverage, pharmaceutical, healthcare, medical device, or related markets.
• Strong commercial acumen with excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage, retain, and grow existing customer accounts across the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, healthcare, and consumer goods markets.
• Identify, develop, and secure new business opportunities throughout the assigned territory.
• Take full ownership of a significant territory, managing customer relationships and revenue performance with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Develop and execute strategic account plans focused on revenue growth, customer retention, and profitability.
• Promote a broad portfolio of flexible packaging solutions including printed films, laminations, rollstock, pouches, barrier packaging, and sustainable packaging products.
• Build strong relationships with procurement teams, packaging engineers, operations leaders, and executive stakeholders.
• Deliver customer presentations, commercial reviews, and business development meetings to support territory growth.
• Maintain accurate forecasts, CRM updates, opportunity pipelines, account plans, and sales activity reporting.
• Provide market intelligence, competitor insights, and customer feedback to senior leadership.
• Work closely with internal manufacturing, technical, customer service, and operations teams to ensure exceptional customer satisfaction.
• Consistently achieve and exceed sales, profitability, and growth objectives.

Skills

Sales & account management

Business development

Territory management

Communication & negotiation

Packaging industry experience

Strategic planning

Job description

Optify Search is seeking a Sales Manager - Flexible Packaging to drive growth in the Northeast USA and Chicago Territory, managing key accounts and pursuing new opportunities.

Remote role with responsibility for revenue, profitability, and strategic account plans across food, beverage, pharmaceutical, healthcare, and consumer goods markets. Strong experience in flexible packaging and enterprise-level selling is required.