SVP

Smurfit Westrock plc; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock Packaging Solutions is seeking a Senior Vice President to lead SWPS across North America, driving safety, innovation and profitability. You will build a strong senior leadership team and set strategic priorities with clear accountability.

Reporting to the President, you will own P&L, pricing, operating expense and capital allocation, while steering complex commercial negotiations and customer/supplier relations. Extensive travel is required.

Qualifications

• Senior executive leadership with direct P&L responsibility.
• Proven track record delivering profitable growth in a complex organization.
• Executive-level financial and strategic planning capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Set direction for SWPS North America with clear priorities and milestones.
• Own revenue, gross profit, EBITDA and cash flow with rigorous planning.
• Lead growth across customers, segments and geographies.
• Oversee sales strategy, pricing, contracting and margins.
• Manage key customer and supplier relationships at executive level.
• Balance operations, inventory and network capacity to drive cost efficiency.
• Allocate capital and drive post-investment reviews and returns.
• Build a high-performing leadership team and governance rhythms.
• Ensure safety, quality and regulatory compliance across the network.

Skills

Executive leadership

P&L ownership

Strategic planning

Financial acumen

B2B sales leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA preferred

Job description

SVP, Smurfit Westrock Packaging Solutions

Locations

GA WFH Georgia

Employment Type

Full Time

Date Posted

07-Nov-2026

Relocation Support

No

Description & Requirements

Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is the go-to leader and partner of choice in sustainable packaging. We are dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity and respect, we are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities where we operate.

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the President of Smurfit Westrock’s Corrugated Division, the Smurfit Westrock Packaging Solutions (SWPS) Senior Vice President is responsible for the overall direction of the safe, innovative, and profitable results of the SWPS business across North America. Responsible for building a strong senior leadership team setting strategic achievement of long-term success.

How you will impact Smurfit Westrock:

• Enterprise Strategy and Value Creation. Set the direction for SWPS across North America and translate the long-range strategy into clear commercial, financial and operating priorities, with accountable owners, milestones and performance measures.
• Full P&L and Financial Leadership. Own revenue, gross profit, EBITDA/operating profit, operating expense, cash flow, working capital and return on invested capital. Lead rigorous planning, forecasting and business reviews, and take timely corrective action when performance deviates from plan.
• Profitable Growth. Build a differentiated growth agenda across customers, segments, geographies, products, services and channels. Accelerate new-account acquisition, expand share of wallet and scale value-added solutions that improve customer economics and SWPS profitability.
• Commercial Excellence. Lead sales strategy, coverage, pipeline management, strategic account planning, sales productivity, incentive alignment and commercial talent. Translate growth expectations into measurable activity, conversion, retention and margin outcomes.
• Pricing and Margin Expansion. Establish disciplined pricing, contracting and margin-management practices. Improve price realization, mix and contribution margin through customer-level profitability analytics, deal governance, pass-through mechanisms and clear approval thresholds.
• Strategic Customers and Suppliers. Serve as executive sponsor for the most important customer and supplier relationships. Lead complex commercial negotiations and ensure commitments produce acceptable economics, service outcomes and risk-adjusted returns.
• Operational and Supply-Chain Performance. Balance service, inventory, freight, warehouse productivity and network capacity to improve total delivered cost and customer performance. Drive standardization, productivity and digital enablement without compromising safety, quality or reliability.
• Capital, Cash and Returns. Set capital-allocation priorities across facilities, fleet, technology and growth investments. Require fact-based business cases, post-investment reviews and clear return thresholds, while improving inventory turns, receivables and cash conversion.
• Portfolio and Market Development. Use customer, market and competitor insights to shape growth choices, portfolio decisions and innovation priorities. Evaluate partnerships, acquisitions and other strategic opportunities that accelerate capability, reach or value creation.
• People and Organization Leadership. Build an accountable, inclusive and performance-oriented senior leadership team. Strengthen succession, develop commercial, financial and operating talent, and establish management rhythms that drive execution across a distributed network.
• Safety, Quality and Governance. Maintain an uncompromising commitment to employee safety, product quality, ethical conduct and compliance with legal, regulatory and company requirements.

What you need to succeed:

• 10+ years of senior executive leadership in a large, complex organization with direct, end-to-end P&L responsibility; packaging, distribution, supply chain, industrial services or an adjacent capital-intensive industry strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success delivering profitable organic growth, new-account wins, strategic-account expansion, pricing improvement, margin expansion and commercial productivity.
• Executive-level financial acumen across planning, forecasting, customer and product profitability, cost productivity, cash flow, working capital and disciplined capital allocation.
• Experience leading sophisticated B2B commercial organizations, including sales strategy, strategic accounts, pricing, contracting, revenue management, sales effectiveness and incentive alignment.
• Ability to translate strategy into an operating cadence with clear metrics, disciplined reviews, accountable leaders and reliable execution across a multi-site North American network.
• Proven judgment evaluating customer, market, investment and operating risks and making timely, fact-based decisions through changing business and market cycles.
• Demonstrated ability to build high-performing leadership teams, strengthen succession and create a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Executive presence and relationship skills to influence senior enterprise stakeholders and represent SWPS with major customers, suppliers and industry partners.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or other advanced business or finance degree preferred.
• Ability to travel extensively across the United States, Mexico and other locations as business needs require.

Candidates are required to undergo a drug screening after receiving a conditional job offer, but before starting employment.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.