What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sales Manager position at York Container Company?
Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. is a company with a rich history, culture, and an indomitable spirit to do good. For the past 75 years, Atlantic Packaging has worked towards preserving the environment and ensuring not a single tree is cut to manufacture boxes. We are proud to state that we save close to 14 million trees every year and continue to work towards achieving a greener planet!
Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. is privately owned and is headquartered in Scarborough, ON.
Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. has 6 US entities: York Container Pennsylvania, York Container Elgin, Skybox Packaging, Stand Fast Group, Blackhawk Corrugated, and Champion Container Corp; with locations in Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
This is a remote position supporting York Container located in Elgin, IL.
Job Summary:
Perform all management and leadership responsibilities associated with sales. Responsibilities include hiring, motivating, coaching, appraising, rewarding, disciplining, addressing complaints and resolving issues of the sales representatives and designers.
Essential Job Functions:
- Set yearly performance goals and expectations with each salesperson
- Manage salespeople to grow current and potential customers
- Develop yearly sales compensation plan to promote growth for the company
- Manage and track key opportunities
- Evaluate and distribute within the sales team the portfolio of current and potential customers
- Support sales team externally and internally
- Manage sales budget efficiently to best interest of company
- Search for potential customers and match with the right salesperson
- Improve customer relationships
- Assist in pricing strategy
- Negotiate opportunities with customers
- Monitor competitors’ products, sales, and marketing activities as well as recent market and industry trends
Other Functions:
- Manage and resolve customer issues.
- Generate yearly sales budget
- Decrease non-value-added activity of sales team
- Forecast future sales
Qualifications:
- College Degree preferred
- A minimum of 5 years’ sales experience
- Strong skills in sales management
- Organizational skills
- Strategic thinking
- Problem solving skills
- Ability to multi-task
- Exceptional relationship builder
- Ability to motivate and lead
- Excel in time management
- Strong verbal and written communication
- Skills in Microsoft Office (specifically in Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
- A valid, current driver’s license
WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
We strive to create and maintain an inclusive and diverse workforce where everyone feels valued, respected, and included. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, citizenship, veteran status, gender identity or any other legally protected status.
Reasonable accommodation may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of a job.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Travel requirement:
- Travel
Application Question(s):
- Are you willing to undergo a background Check, in accordance with local law/regulations?
- Are you legally authorized to work in the United States?
- Are you willing to take a drug test, in accordance with local law regulations?
Work Location: Remote