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Candidates from the newsletter of October 5, 2016

 

To speak with any of these candidates contact David McCrum at 800-548-3506 ext. 3279 or

Email dmccrum@swiftrecruiters.com

 

34205 Structural Designer – This designer has 14 years of experience with corrugated carton/POP, ArtiosCAD, Artios 3D, Amtech and MS Word/Excel, and is looking for a new opportunity in the Chicago area

 

  • Versatile, resourceful and detail-oriented structural designer with extensive experience in leading, consulting, designing, budgeting, cost analysis, vendor negotiations and client relations
  • Possesses a proven ability to anticipate unique requirements or potential roadblocks in all situations
  • Continually develops backup plans to minimize downtime and deliver high quality results
  • Has a demonstrated track record of outstanding service
  • Calm, dependable professional who devotes every effort to achieving the best results
  • Effectively manages diverse tasks with varying degrees of complexity, establishing goals, developing plans and implementing concepts in order to meet and exceed client/institutional expectations

66901 Sales Representative – Candidate has 10 years of experience selling various forms of packaging, including cold chain, protective, corrugated and unit dose in New York and New Jersey

  • Enthusiastic, motivated sales professional with10+ years of experience and success selling a diverse array of packaging products across multiple consumer industries, including food, pharmaceutical, personal care, cosmetics and nutraceuticals

  • Capable of exceeding company and customer expectations

  • Flexibility to perform in self-directed and team environments

  • Very competitive, conscientious and detail oriented

45880 Corrugated Manager – With 20 years of experience in the corrugated industry, this person is familiar with litho-lam, gluing, flexo and printing folding cartons, and is looking for an opportunity in the Salem/Eugene, OR area

  • Hands-on management style
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Extensive experience presenting to customers
  • Customer exposure with sales ranging from $200,000 to $52,000,000/year
  • Strong leadership skills with focus on coaching and development
  • Highly adaptable and quick to learn
  • Relentless focus on results
  • Exposure to many workforces, both non-union and union
  • 20 years of management from front-line to executive
  • 25 years of packaging industry experience
  • Understands how to make data-driven decisions
  • Able to understand and communicate Six Sigma methodology

71262 Buyer/Purchasing/Sourcing – Chicago area candidate has five years of experience in all raw materials and packaging supplies with a packaging engineering background

  • Responsibilities have included supply chain management, building strategic supplier relationships, cost reduction and process improvement initiatives
  • As an engineer/buyer, facilitated plant trials for supplier specifications and implementation of waste reduction programs
  • Experience has led to a thorough knowledge of working with cross-functional teams and project management utilizing lean Six Sigma tools, including statistical analysis of process capabilities that provide bottom line cost savings
  • Packaging engineer with experience in food and package manufacturing facilities

62211 Sales Representative – This Midwestern candidate has over 20 years of experience in industrial packaging sales, including selling IBC products

  • Over 20 years of experience in business-to-business industrial packaging sales
  • Extensive knowledge of the Midwest market
  • Professional and self-confident in handling corporate accounts
  • Exceptional success in establishing long-term relationships with customers
  • Special talent for identifying customers’ needs and presenting effective solutions
  • Experienced in handling national accounts
  • Effective organizational, planning and time management skills
  • Proven negotiation skills
  • Proven relationship management, communication and consulting skills
  • Able to solve problems and devise solutions for customers
  • Self-motivated with drive for results
  • Proficient with MS Office

43817 Sales Representative – This sales person has 14 years of experience in 3PL packaging, prime labels and heat shrink, is located in Kentucky and is looking to relocate to the Dallas/Fort Worth region

  • Over 20 years of experience in industrial-based outside sales
  • Covered multiple state territories in the south and central U.S.
  • More than 14 years of calling on the food, dairy, beverage and health/cosmetic industries
  • Successful selling of systems: capital equipment and consumables
  • Emphasis and focus on finding and developing new business
  • Experience in calling on national accounts
  • Builds lasting relationships with clients that result in loyal business
  • Value added selling, promoting the service, benefit and knowledge over price

70675 VP of Sales – This professional has 20 years of experience in management, team building and P&L in paper, plastic, disposable foodservice items and specialty packaging in the Chicago area

  • Sales management executive with 20 years of progressive sales and management success
  • Experienced in development and implementation of organizational strategies, team building and execution of corporate high level goals
  • Additional proficiencies include reorganization, contract review/execution, P/L and M&A activities
  • Industry leading manufacturer of custom flexible packaging and filling solutions for beverage, dairy, ingredients, chemical and spirits/wine
  • Led successful reorganization of sales and customer service team with 12 direct reports and increased overall revenue/profit results each year
  • Full P/L responsibilities for $65MM+ division
  • Exceeded corporate sales and profit goals in both FY2013 and FY2014
  • Championed expansion into wine markets with enhanced bag-in-box dispensing solution
  • FY16 projected to be record revenue/profit for division with minimum 20% YOY growth
  • Secured largest annual business award in six years with customer valued at more than $9MM per year

49344 Accounts Manager/Sales Representative – This candidate has over 20 years of experience selling plastic products and cleaning and sanitary maintenance products in the Southeast

  • Responsible for sales in excess of $30 million annually to key national accounts within the healthcare, jan/san and foodservice segments, selling institutional trash bags
  • Instrumental in implementing cost saving programs where users saw an average cost saving of 28%
  • Received award as Top Sales Achiever in films division
  • Managed sales of institutional trash can liners into the national group purchasing organizations (GPOs)
  • Duties have included sales and P&L responsibility of catering and cutlery kit business segments for the eastern United States
  • Activities included new product development, marketing execution plans and distribution of new products
  • Grew sales of catering products and dietary kits for the eastern United States by 105%  with sales volume in excess of $15,000,000
  • Managed nine independent manufacturer representative organizations composed of over 50 sales representatives
  • Instrumental in development/launch of three new products for catering line
  • Maintained sales responsibilities for national account sales manager position in conjunction with region sales manager role

62364 National Account Manager – With over 26 years of sales, this candidate has extensive packaging knowledge with a sales and design background and is looking for a new opportunity in the Midwest

  • Top performing, results driven, career sales pro with 26 years of experience building market presence and driving revenue growth within highly competitive markets nationwide
  • Extensive packaging knowledge with a sales and design background
  • Delivered strong and sustainable revenue gains through new product placements within the manufacturing, co-packing, retail, food and industrial industries
  • Created and designed multiple consumer product lines
  • Designed and developed all packaging, from rigid plastic to shrink labeling
  • Accomplished in manufacturing, distributor co-packing and retail sales

43484 Sales Representative/Sales Management – This Midwestern sales and marketing professional has over 20 years experience in the film industry, with strong skills in business development, account management, communication and leadership

  • Recruited to build a national sales territory on a direct sale basis and to rebuild the customer base selling specialty high and low barrier packaging films and bags to the meat and poultry industry, featuring specialty forming/non-forming peel and seal films
  • Recruited to build and develop a customer base for high and low barrier specialty films, packaging, peal and seal films and short and long hold bags to the dairy industry, specifically the 640 long hold cheese markets
  • Grew distributor sales dollars 30% ($150,000) from 2012 levels and established $100,000 in new distributor business
  • Grew direct sales from zero to $250,000
  • P&L territory management
  • Develops and implements strategies for territory growth and to penetrate niche markets where company has a competitive advantage with bag in box and boilable barrier films
  • Directly responsible for field testing and qualifying of all GF products, troubleshooting film and machinery issues on trial sites
  • VFFS and HFFS packaging applications
  • Established BRC and SQF product requirement programs

70729 Sales Representative – This representative has an extensive amount of experience in selling equipment in a territory that includes 10 southeastern states

  • Manages direct sales of all equipment in FL, GA, AL, TN, NC, SC, VA, KY, WV and AR

  • Focuses on sales calls with print sales force, identifying, economically justifying and closing equipment opportunities, thereby increasing consumables revenue through wide format inks and consumables substrates

  • Responsible for over $2 million in wide format equipment sales in 2015

  • Streamlines pre-press production for commercial printers through workflow and plate setting solutions emphasizing automation, reducing manual processes and excess waste

  • Coordinates monthly sales meetings with sales managers in MD, TN, SC, FL and GA to assess activity levels, strategize on campaigns and deliver measurable sales targets

  • Develops relationships with vendors to leverage their products with customers’ needs

  • Serves as advisor with senior management as expert in field sales and applying company culture and differentiators into campaigns

70780 Sales Manager/Sales Representative – Candidate has over 20 years of experience in printing and labels, plus extensive knowledge of stretch wrap equipment; located in the Midwest and willing to relocate for the right company

  • Customer-focused sales executive with demonstrated success through solution selling
  • Over 20 years of national and international sales covering multi-state territories
  • Successful track record selling to OEM manufacturers as well as into distribution channels
  • Trusted advisor working with client executives and other high level decision makers
  • Proven ability to implement plans, strategies and customer solutions that increase revenue, profit margins and market share
  • International B2B sales executive with national contacts
  • Products include stretch wrap machines, bar coders, foam-in-place systems, laser scanners, logistics/inventory, military spec/OEM, primary and secondary packing, pallets (wood/plastic/pulp) printers/labelers, automation, strapping, stretch film, tapes/adhesives, tooling (manual/battery/pneumatic), tri-wall containers, turntables/conveyers and wiping cloth/textiles (critical/non-critical)

48156 Sales Representative – Candidate has over 20 years of experience in the packaging industry selling digital, sheet fed and large format print in Pennsylvania

  • High energy, hunter mentality sales professional with over 20 years of specialized experience in business development
  • Dedicated to achieving sales targets while providing excellent customer service
  • Superior record of developing new accounts
  • Keeps up-to-date with changes in technology to best serve customers’ growing needs
  • Solution/consultative sales
  • Business development
  • Excellent presentation, written and communication abilities
  • Teaches sales techniques
  • SaaS-based software
  • Computer savvy

64427 Maintenance Manager/ Director – This Missouri candidate has over 20 years of industry experience in packaging, managing skilled trade maintenance professionals and tool makers, as well as experience using SMED, kaizen and 5S, and will relocate anywhere

  • Experience in contract pharmaceutical packaging, managing skilled trade maintenance professionals and tool makers

  • Strong lean manufacturing skills that provide results

  • Utilizes SMED, kaizen, 5S and root cause analysis to empower maintenance group to attain optimal performance

  • Very strong leader with an ability to get people to work together

  • Able to elevate morale and productivity concurrently and significantly

  • Highly experienced with a persuasive, positive attitude and a love of achievement

  • Hands on, in the trenches management style, and at home on the production floor

  • Extensive mechanical and manufacturing experience

  • Outstanding in implementing standardized continuous improvement

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