This position will be responsible to lead initiatives to improve market position with key customers and ensures SKNA capitalizes on any business opportunities with customers.
Primary Duties
- Participate in regular customer interaction
- Participate in customer visits to discuss projects and customer needs
- Grow and retain existing accounts by supplying innovative solutions and services to our key customers with respective sales representative
- Work along the sales team to develop proposals that speaks to the customer's needs, concerns and objectives
- Provide support and advice to our key costumers on their packaging needs and respective solutions
- Meet with customer directly, get product, dimensions, sizing
- Create packaging to meet needs of customer. Price, performance of the box
- Create a monthly tracker of projects, products, communication for the Director of Innovation & Development
- Provide support and advice to our key costumers on their packaging needs and respective solutions
- Travel to other Smurfit Kappa facilities required
- Learn relevant local and company requirements, rules and procedures. Strictly follows rules and guidelines and always uses the right procedure for the job. Promptly reports incidents, near-misses, and unsafe conditions or processes. SKNA employees regardless of level, position or tenure are responsible for upholding the safety standards regulations and policies.
- May be assigned to other projects and duties
Requirements:
Job Qualifications
- Packaging Degree, product design or similar is preferred but not mandatory.
- 3 to 5 years of previous experience.
- Proficiency in Artios Cad design software is preferred.
- Proficiency in Adobe Cloud design software is preferred.
- Proficient in the creation of presentation and presentation skills is preferred.
Computer proficiency - - MS Office, CAD, Adobe Suite is preferred.
- Highly motivated, self-starter able to build relationships with a wide range of individuals at all of levels and across a number of disciplines.
- Bilingual in English and Spanish is preferred
- Good project management skills, excellent communication and presentation skills
About Smurfit Kappa
Smurfit Kappa is a FTSE 100 company and one of the leading providers of paper-based packaging in the world, with operations in 23 European countries and 12 countries in the Americas.
EEO Statement
Smurfit Kappa is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, pregnancy, religion, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, genetic information, status as a Vietnam Era, disabled veteran, special disabled veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal Veteran, recently separated or other protected veteran. Smurfit Kappa also complies with all applicable state, federal and local laws, regulations and ordinances prohibiting discrimination in places where Smurfit Kappa operates.