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Candidates from the newsletter of August 17, 2021

 

To speak with any of these candidates contact Cesar Rosario at 800-548-3506 ext. 3276 or email cesar@swiftrecruiters.com

 

68520 Sales Executive/VP of Sales/Sales Director – This candidate in the Southeast has had a progressively responsible career selling dies to print houses and folding carton manufacturers, with extensive contacts throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and foreign territories

  • Successfully optimized existing sales/marketing teams and built start-up businesses from scratch by quickly gaining trust and accountability by example

  • Possesses the industry experience and knowledge to analyze data and streamline or improve processes to maximize business

  • Trains and educates sales representatives on introducing solutions that encourage a long-lasting client partnership while reducing cost and increasing productivity for the company and clients served

  • Leads the entire sales and marketing team towards the budgeted goals of the organization, including sales volume, cost control and profitability

  • Responsible for strategic planning of sales activity focusing on optimum growth of markets served

  • Authored corporate partnership agreements with various clients in order to achieve 10 years of consecutive growth in territory from start-up to over $3,000,000 annually

85932 Customer Service/Account Lead – Candidate is a bilingual customer service professional with five years of experience with a provider of corrugated boxes, displays, folding cartons and pre-print services to the food and retail industries in the Midwest

  • Takes calls and handles front office reception
  • Administrative and scheduling duties (shipping and production)
  • Creates reports for various divisions
  • Customer problem/complaint resolution
  • Product education/training
  • Account lead/management of the company's largest accounts
  • Possesses attention to detail and ability to multi-task effectively
  • Exceptional communications and complex problem resolution skills have led to an increase in client trust and long-term loyalty

84434 Certified Plant Maintenance/Lead Technician – This Midwestern plant maintenance technician/lead has 10 years of experience working in plastic injection molding, tools, dies, and robotic-assisted assembly and manufacturing

  • Currently leads a crew of four technicians, managing day-to-day activities, including emergency repairs, PMs, work requests, repair of broken components, fabrication, assembly and installation of new equipment

  • Served as sole technician in a previous position

  • Responsible for all aspects of maintenance of 12 presses with robots, secondary operation equipment and three assembly areas

  • Performed preventative and predictive maintenance and emergency repairs on all shop equipment, including injection molding machines, clip machines and assembly line equipment, including robotic laser cutting cells, robotic milling machines, multiple styles of vacuum formers (IMG, FRIMO and Kiefel), manual and robotic paint systems, foam injection systems, punch presses, sonic welders, injection molding machines and auxiliary molding equipment

  • Reads and understands electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, machining and building prints

  • Modifies and debugs robot programs on Fanuc, Viper, ABB, Reiss, Sepro, Ranger and Star robots

41173 General Manager/National Sales Manager – Candidate is an accomplished corporate strategist with the vision and expert knowledge to create, effectively communicate and implement the organization's vision, mission and overall direction while maintaining awareness of external and internal opportunities for expansion, customers, markets, new industry developments; located in the Midwest

  • Successfully developed new business for established global and national presences, company turnarounds and new start-up businesses in the packaging industry, including equipment, instrumentation, print and graphic sectors

  • Created, communicated and implemented the organization’s vision, mission and overall direction

  • Oversaw all the financial aspects of the company and maintained awareness of both external and internal opportunities for expansion, customers, markets, new industry developments and standards
  • Developed annual marketing plans with a focus on digital advertising (SEO, social, web content, etc.) and local networking
  • Hired, fired and managed all employees of the company, including the daily operations
  • Assessed region by region potential and necessary sales channels, and implemented regional restructuring and representative group/distributor changes and additions
  • Increased incoming sales leads and worked on developing measurement of marketing activities and results

43877 Sales Representative/Sales Manager/Account Manager – This person demonstrates a progressive history of advancement and promotion selling disposable aluminum, molded fiber, paper wraps, plastic bags, thermoformed plastic, custom print, and custom thermoformed packaging, rigid OPS and PETE containers throughout the south

  • Sold into regional (TX, LA, NM, AR, AZ and MX) and national food manufacturers, quick-serve restaurants (QSRs), casual dining, grocery stores and distributors

  • Extensive contacts, product knowledge, experience, business acumen and creative selling technique bring customer's ideas to fruition by working closely with clients and company engineers

  • Possesses strong management skills and the ability to work without supervision and produce tangible results

  • Highly motivated self-starter candidate with excellent follow-through on assigned duties or tasks and can identify, isolate and resolve problems/issues with customers on an end user, distribution or main account level

  • Effective communicator with a high success ratio in evaluating client needs and closing sales.
  • Possesses superior knowledge of operational aspects of business, including administration, distribution and inventory control

24240 Sales Director/Sales Manager – This southern candidate is a sales and business development professional in flexible packaging, film, cold pack, bulk bags and large bulk containers into the industrial, food and beverage markets to end users and distributors throughout the US

  • Recruited, hired, trained and developed sales teams that have built several sales territories to over 100% of quota

  • Responsible for implementing sales programs for inside sales and customer service personnel, initiating sales to packaging distribution networks and negotiating contracts with medium to large volume accounts

  • Established sales strategies and identified major target markets

  • Initiated distribution channel selling to distributors and large end users

  • Responsible for all major accounts new business development

  • Proven track record in securing major new business accounts.

70124 Production Manager/Plant Manager/Technical Manager – This Florida-based candidate has a storied career working as an R&D process engineer, COO, technical manager, packaging supervisor and plant manager for small start-ups to global producers of films, blown film, flexible packaging, pouches, equipment and print into the food and medical industries

  • Responsible for multiple plant operations, quality and product development

  • Successfully implemented principles and practices of lean manufacturing, organizational development and process improvement

  • Created standardized assembly, manufacturing and design, which increased plant production and finished goods inventory while keeping a 99% on-time product delivery and 900 days of no lost time or recordable incident

  • Six Sigma Green Belt certification, lean, ISO 9002, OSHA10 certification and GFSI certification

  • Process- and results-driven, motivated and self-directed

  • Wrote data sheets, SOPs and GFSI compliance documents

  • Innovative, inspiring and able to work in a collaborative relationship throughout the organization

88039 New Territory Development/sales Representative – This young sales professional has four years of experience selling corrugated boxes and packaging supplies, one year of print equipment and supplies, and one year of fine paper sales; located in the NY/PA/NJ area

  • Shows an eagerness to learn and the willingness and toughness to cold call and door knock to successfully penetrate and establish a new territory, selling to office supply, retail, specialty snack, co-packers, and co-manufactures

  • Hunter who has successfully identifies the buyer and builds the relationship, and has the drive, organization, and follow through to service existing customers and develop new business

  • Manages entire sales cycle, from cold calling, proposal writing and contract negotiation to close

  • Efficient in industry sales to achieve the greatest ROI

  • Able to influence clients to do more business and often given referrals

32913 Manufacturer’s Representative/Sales Representative/Key Account Manager – Candidate has extensive experience and expertise with thermoformed, flexible, corrugated, POP, rigid, blister, clamshell, shrink, skin, bottle filling, kitting, folding cartons and corrugate shipper's products in the Midwest

  • Highly competitive, ambitious and goal-oriented

  • Uses a consultative sales approach and maintains the utmost integrity in all affairs

  • Professionally skilled in relationship building, forecasting and planning for maximum growth and profitability

  • Identifies the buyer and decision makers quickly and has the experience and skills to present and close the deal with all levels of the corporate ladder, including purchasing, marketing, operations and management

  • Responsible for targeting and building long-term relationships with top 100 customers in the industry
  • Possesses an existing list of VP level contacts and relationships in many Fortune 1000 companies

75798 Pressroom, Finishing and Production Manager/Press Operator – Candidate is a seasoned pressroom supervisor with extensive technical experience and training in high-quality printing, plus a comprehensive understanding of large format sheetfed printing with both energy curable and conventional inks and coatings

  • Operational background in prep, die cutting and finishing operations for folding carton manufacturers

  • Demonstrated success in decision making in a fast-paced environment affecting personnel, product, production, safety, regulatory and quality management

  • Writes standard operating procedures, revising existing SOPs as needed, and training staff on implementation

  • Proficient in executing press checks with high-profile and national accounts, consistently exceeding customer expectations

  • Trained in 5S methodology, Six Sigma, QIP and TQIP quality processes

  • Equipment operated includes KBA-164 Rapida, KBA-105 6-color, Mitsubishi D3000LX6 8-color 40", Mitsubishi D6000LX6 8-color 56", Mitsubishi D6000LX7 56", Heidelberg Speed Master CD 102 6-color LX 40", Manroland R 906-6 color LV, all Miller series, including Miller 104 6-color 40", Komori L 640 7-color and Harris 61" 6-color flexographic print

 

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