89450 Production/Operations/Converting Manager – This candidate in the Kalamazoo, MI area is experienced in paperboard, folding cartons and corrugated, with significant management experience

• Experienced leader with strong communication skills and significant management experience in multiple fields of operation

• Thrived in unionized facilities with positive relationship with union members while pushing accountability

• Proven record of strong leadership, project management, and strong follow through with an emphasis on accountability and feedback

• Expertise includes safety, training, lean manufacturing, quality control, effective communication, root cause analysis, GMPs, project management and efficiency

72938 General Manager – This professional is experienced in offset printing, flexo and digital equipment in labels, folding cartons and flexible packaging, and is looking for a new opportunity in the Southwest

• Accomplished professional with 25+ years of experience managing both operations and sales teams in the packaging industry
• Experience includes offset, flexographic, slitting and digital technologies
• Strong technical background in converting processes, including paperboard (printed folding carton), labels and flexible packaging products
• 15 years managing operations and sales
• Coordinated scheduling and production output
• Contract negotiations
• P&L responsibility
• Distribution management
• 15 years of supply chain procurement
• 15 years of vendor relations development
• 10 years of sales management, sales recruiting, training and team building/leadership
• 17 years of new business acquisition
• Customer relationship management
• 17 years of technical and sales training development to sales team
• Strategic, consultative and tactical sales
• Secures and manages key accounts

55047 Business Development/Sales Representative – Candidate is experienced in custom injected plastic molding for medical/pharma/health care with a background in medication packaging and looking for a sales opportunity in the Northeast

• Collaborative, resourceful and multi-dimensional sales professional who listens with an open mind, creates task expectations and takes action-oriented steps toward the resolution
• Delivers optimized sales performance through self-empowered leadership and experience
• Grew sales from $3.8 million to $6 million in region first year and 12-18% annually consistently
• #1 Account Manager of the Year, company-recognized national award
• Top Sales Award Winner (both in consumables and equipment)
• Secured enduring business relationships on the national account level with top C-level executive team members while working the regional account base, driving sales-measured performance metrics

88784 Customer Service Representative/Account Manager – This Kentucky candidate is working in corrugated and familiar with HRMS and some Kiwi/Amtech software, and is looking to relocate in SC, FL, or southeast GA

• Communicates with customers and works with all internal departments for the scheduling and graphics engineering of flexographic print plates
• Estimates and quotes orders, performs order entry, proofs graphics, bills orders and files all related paperwork
• Performs a variety of additional activities to facilitate excellent customer relationships and support effective and cost-efficient manufacturing operations
• Operates within defined systems or parameters and participates in a variety of order management activities

30961 Sales Representative (Independent) – Candidate is experienced in stretch/shrink/strapping equipment and looking for a new opportunity in the Chicago area

• Boosted sales $415,000 in new business across eight plants manufacturing chemicals, food, feed with patented blown puncture resistance stretch film.

• Converted $245,000 in stretch film and Lock N' Pop products sales, reducing returns by 12% while generating subsidiary opportunities for five new accounts.

• Negotiated deal closing that created a relationship with a market-leading manufacturer that purchases $660,000 with plans for 15-plant expansion. Valued delivered to customer reduced client returns by 25% saving thousands in expenses by selling proprieta ry Xeros Film product. Achieved 165% of Quota.

• Utilized value-driven sales approach by creating packaging solutions worth $60,000 annually addressing a conveyor system stoppage issue that resulted in increased efficiency at Food Additive Manufacturer. Created Opportunities for 75% of Quota during Covid Stoppage.

63205 Production Manager – This Indiana candidate is experienced in procurement, safety and quality in corrugated industry, and looking for a management position anywhere except the West Coast

• Leadership, organizational and time management skills
• Supervision and management
• Strong communication skills
• Strong mechanical skills, setting up and training
• Lean manufacturing
• Microsoft Great Plains, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Amtech, Kiwi and HRMS
• Inventory management, purchasing, procurement and scheduling
• SQF and NSF Food certified

89155 Sales Representative/Sales Manager – This manager in NC is experienced in foodservice packaging covering the East Coast as well as IL, OH and MI, handling brokers, distributor partners and key account management

• Highly competent professional with over 20 years of relevant experience in sales management, territory management, forecasting and strategic planning to drive business development across sales, operations and supply chain departments
• Effective communicator with a proven ability to establish positive, productive and mutually beneficial relationships with associates, clients and external partners
• Goal-oriented manager with a proven record of success in monitoring market conditions and analyzing competition to ensure business growth
• Regarded as a reliable market specialist, productively working with various departments on creating annual sales and marketing budgets
• Utilizes strong organizational skills to manage high-volume accounts while increasing profit margins as needed per customer, on a case-by-case basis
• Continuously exceeds goals and objectives, showing a strong sense for sales forecast
• Capable of providing excellent customer service while achieving client retention and overall customer satisfaction
• Detail-oriented, with a strong sense of process improvement, eager to master new challenges and contribute to the overall growth of the company

43419 Sales Representative – This salesperson is working in folding cartons, selling to software, media, pet products, pharma and food industry in the Southeast

• Professional sales representative with 34 years of experience in printing and packaging sales and sales management, with extensive experience selling to Fortune 500 companies in the Southeast as well as managing many smaller companies’ printing and packaging in the retail and pharmaceutical markets
• Specializes in paperboard packaging, point of purchase, full and quarter pallet displays, commercial print and flexible packaging

• Develops the Southeast region, including North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina and Tennessee
• Client relationships include the software, media, pet products, pharmaceutical and food industries

88666 Plant Operations/Production/Printing/Converting Manager – Candidate is experienced in pouches and bag machinery, KBA, Comei, Onyx, Uteco, laminators and more, and looking for a new opportunity in the Carolinas or Southwest

• Skilled tradesman with over 20 years of flexographic printing/converting experience

• Experience encompasses all aspects of the industry from working directly with production operators through the customers’ packaging equipment

• Experienced in a wide variety of equipment, including 12-color KBA Flexotechnica flexo press, 8-color Comexi C.I. flexo press with two outboard stations for inline lamination and registered cold seal, Uteco 10-color Onyx, Uteco 10-color Emerald, Mark Andy (4120, 2200 and 830), Faustel 51” waterborne adhesive laminator, Nordmeccanica Simplex solventless laminator, Bobst/Schiavi solventless laminator, extrusion polymount lamination, Totani pouch machine, Moss type mounter/proofer, Heaford mounter/proofer, various slitters and rewinders (Dusenberry, Conweb, Sanford & Titan and DCM Tigre), and X-Rite color master matching system

• Able to decide correct substrate to use based on its end use, and to substitute in case of overstock of certain substrates, for example butt rolls, films not marked or unable to identify in the back corner

• Managed numerous employees throughout career, including employment and training of numerous QC procedures

• Implements safety procedures daily to reduce or avoid confusion and accidents

• Full understanding of P&L statements and how to use the information to reduce cost and pinpoint problem areas

• Implements waste records to set goals to reduce raw material waste

• Extensive experience with face-to-face dealing with customers, establishing relationships through common goals concerning new and existing product lines

• Extensive knowledge of all lamination requirements needed for each different structure, including urethane, acrylic adhesives, frozen or dry application, and various adhesive coat weights and catalyst additives to ensure bond strengths hold up to end use product

89092 Service Technician/Maintenance Supervisor – This person is experienced in paperboard and corrugated equipment, and is looking for an opportunity in southern NJ

• Maintained and repaired mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems on conveyor systems

• Maintained and repaired paperboard manufacturing equipment such as flatbed die cutters, folder/gluers, KBA printing presses, sheeters, aerators and baler
• Maintained and repaired building and facilities equipment such as air compressors, boiler, forklifts, electric pallet jacks and air conditioning units
• Supervised daily operations, including employee performance, preventive maintenance and safety
• Procured and maintained appropriate spare parts and equipment inventories
• Procured pricing information from various vendors to support cost-effective purchasing
• Provided guidance to management regarding project bids for on-site improvements
• Used technical knowledge of the corrugated and paperboard industry process equipment, including corrugators, die cutters (flatbed and rotary), printing presses, folder/gluers and related support equipment to train maintenance personnel on procedures, materials, equipment use, and OSHA and company safety regulations

30961 Sales Representative – This salesperson is experienced in industrial packaging such as films, tape, strapping, angleboard and packaging machinery in the Chicago area

89341 Sales Representative – This person is experienced in digital printing to the commercial print market in an 11-state Midwest territory, and would consider relocation from IN to FL

• Extensive sales background in commercial print and manufacturing in solutions consultancy, with technical sales experience
• Specializes in developing partnerships through strategic alignment and value justification to deliver growth in sales, operations and marketing
• Successful in providing solutions that deliver a reduction in costs, achieve measureable operational improvements, enhance the client experience and capture new revenue opportunities
• Consultative, solution-based sales in digital markets
• Makes presentations to C-level clientele to promote new products and solutions
• Created, negotiated, managed and closed on all quotes
• Manages the entire client ecosystem for all deals
• Business development and financial acumen for targeted results
• Client acquisition and retention
• Self-motivated to set a plan with the discipline to execute on that plan to exceed goals
• Markets one-to-one services
• Cross-functional leadership and collaboration
• Color management and photography