Remote Inside Sales Rep – Early Career (Packaging)

Smurfit Westrock; Reno (NV); Remote; USD 62,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock is seeking an Early Career Sales Representative to develop new business and grow assigned accounts in the small-to-medium segment. The role aims to progress to an outside sales position within 12–14 months, coordinating with corporate and plant teams to secure orders and resolve issues.

This position emphasizes remote communication, building rapport with customers, understanding their challenges, and driving cross-sell, up-sell, and new business opportunities while achieving

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of B2B inside sales or related experience strongly preferred.
• Experience in fiber-based packaging industry is strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• Ability to manage full book of assigned accounts spanning multiple business units.
• Ability to develop and qualify new opportunities, present solutions, overcome objections, negotiate, and close business over the phone & videoconference.

Responsibilities

• Develop new business and grow assigned customer accounts.
• Coordinate orders and resolve account issues with management and staff.
• Engage with new potential customers and previous customers to win back business.
• Build deep rapport to understand customer business and challenges.
• Drive cross-sell and up-sell opportunities and meet volume/margin targets.
• Assist in margin improvement plans and client communications.
• Coach junior team members and work with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Inside sales

B2B sales

CRM software

Phone & videoconference selling

Communication

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Salesforce.com

Microsoft Office

Job description

Smurfit Westrock is seeking an Early Career Sales Representative to develop new business and grow assigned accounts in the small-to-medium segment. The role aims to progress to an outside sales position within 12–14 months, coordinating with corporate and plant teams to secure orders and resolve issues.

This position emphasizes remote communication, building rapport with customers, understanding their challenges, and driving cross-sell, up-sell, and new business opportunities while achieving