Sales Representative - Corrugated - Pleasant Prairie, WI

Smurfit Westrock; Pleasant Prairie (WI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive training and development opportunities

Competitive salary

Strong corporate culture based on integrity

Focus on sustainability and inclusion

Job summary

A leading global packaging company is seeking a Sales Representative who will manage existing customer accounts and drive new sales opportunities. The ideal candidate will have 2-5+ years of B2B sales experience, strong skills in sales execution, and the ability to collaborate across various teams. This role involves leveraging Salesforce for pipeline management, delivering presentations, and contributing to the organization’s growth strategy. The company emphasizes integrity, accountability, and sustainability in its corporate culture.

Qualifications

• 2-5+ years of business-to-business sales experience, preferably in manufacturing or service industry.
• Proven track record in sales execution and pipeline management.
• Ability to create and deliver presentations to diverse audiences.
• Ability to create and deliver engaging presentations to internal and external audiences.
• Demonstrated sales competence and financial acumen.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook).
• Experience with Salesforce.com.
• Experience with Power BI and QlikView.

Responsibilities

• Manage existing customer accounts and develop new opportunities.
• Drive results by achieving budgeted sales goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for effective sales strategy execution.
• Meet or exceed budgeted and volume sales goals to contribute to annual targets.
• Utilize CRM system (Salesforce) to manage opportunities and pipeline.
• Navigate customers’ organizational structures and build relationships at multiple levels.
• Manage contractual relationships and negotiate multi-year contracts.
• Deliver results by executing on weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual sales targets.
• Drive commercial excellence to exceed area goals through new accounts and margin improvements.
• Leverage internal resources to understand market trends and competition.
• Monitor profitability and analyze monthly financial summaries against targets.
• Develop strategies to reach company objectives based on market dynamics.
• Collaborate with other WestRock facilities to create cross-enterprise opportunities.
• Qualify prospective customers per Sales strategy.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute the Sales strategy.
• Identify value-add opportunities to improve margins.
• Manage customer engagement through the sales lifecycle to meet contractual obligations and ensure satisfaction.

Skills

Business-to-business sales

Sales execution

Influencing cross-functional teams

Presentation skills

Financial acumen

Microsoft Office

Power BI

QlikView

Tools

Salesforce.com

Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook)

Power BI

QlikView

Job description

The Sales Representative is responsible for successfully managing existing customer accounts and establishing new opportunities to achieve annual sales objectives.

The Sales Representative manages current customer relationships, prospecting and engaging new customers.

The Sales Representative partners with management to complete budget planning, working with the Area Operations teams to understand and sell open machine capacity and value-added services, and supports cross-functional teams to ensure sales strategy execution.

How you will impact WestRock:

• Define overall account vision, ‘Play to Win’ and account growth plan for targeted customers by aligning market trends and customer needs with WestRock solutions
• Identify pricing dynamics within accounts to inform WestRock commercial decisions
• Effectively articulate sales vision and strategy to identify leads on new opportunities, manage prospects and develop a robust sales pipeline
• Meet or exceed individual budgeted and volume sales goals to contribute to the organization’s annual targets objectives
• Effective utilization of CRM system (Salesforce.com) to manage opportunities & pipeline on a consistent basis
• Ability to navigate within customers organizational structure and build relationships at multiple levels
• Manage contractual relationships and negotiate multi-year contracts
• Deliver results by executing on weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual sales targets
• Drive Commercial Excellence to exceed Area volume and profit goals through new account development within targeted segments, growth in existing accounts, margin improvement plans and enterprise sales support
• Utilize internal resources to leverage knowledge of market trends and competition
• Monitor profitability levels to track progress against budgeted targets and analyze monthly financial summaries
• Understand market dynamics and business drivers that define long-term commercial strategies and have an impact on Area and develop strategies to reach company objectives
• Develop working relationships with other WestRock facilities to create opportunities for additional revenue streams across the enterprise capabilities
• Seek and qualify prospective customers in accordance with Sales strategy
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure effective execution of the overall Sales strategy
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify value add opportunities to improve margins
• Manage customer engagement through the sales lifecycle to ensure contractual obligations are met and to enable customer satisfaction

What you need to succeed:

• 2-5+ years of business-to-business (B2B) Sales experience (Manufacturing/service industry preferred)
• Related experience in sales execution and pipeline management
• Ability to drive results by influencing others within different functions
• Ability to create and deliver engaging presentations to internal and external audiences
• Demonstrated sales competence and financial acumen
• Microsoft Office – Excel, Outlook
• Experience with Salesforce.com
• Reporting tools such as Power BI, QlikView
• What we offer:
• Corporate culture based on integrity, respect, accountability and excellence
• Comprehensive training with numerous learning and development opportunities
• An attractive salary reflecting skills, competencies and potential
• A career with a global packaging company where Sustainability, Safety and Inclusion are business drivers and foundational elements of the daily work.