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  • Corrugated

  • Folding Carton

  • Flexible

  • Ink

  • Labels

  • Printing

  • Protective

  • Sustainability

  • Supplies

  • Machinery

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  • Engineering

  • Customer Service

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Southeast Area Candidates

To speak with any of these candidates contact Tonda at ext. 27 or Ray at ext. 13

Email tonda@swiftrecruiters.com or ray@swiftrecruiters.com

36518  Sales Representative – Candidate has a background in cushioning,  protective packaging, pressure sensitive labels, film and flexible packaging, with $1.5M sales volume in the Southeast and no non-compete

  • Results-driven, goal-oriented self-starter with a strong work ethic
  • Extensive experience in sales and management with a drive for continuous improvement  (total quality management process)
  • Demonstrated success in establishing and maintaining long term distributor and customer relationships utilizing the relationship selling skills (RSS) process
  • Proven effectiveness while working alone or as a member of a cooperative team
  • Stable career employment, entirely in the packaging field

32672  Plant Manager, Film Manufacturing – This person’s management and sales career has spanned 20 years, demonstrating year over year improvements in quality, cost and delivery functions.

Candidate is responsible for standards and profit improvements.  He has held full responsibility for plant operations, quality control, production and inventory control.  He directed business development coordinator and sales staff in developing new business.  Core knowledge and skill areas include:

  • Quality assurance management

  • Lean manufacturing practices

  • Turnaround management strategy

  • Workflow planning

  • Operations improvement

  • Cost control strategies

  • Numerous industry-specific training courses including total quality management, relationship selling skills, Xerox training courses and Learning International; a full list is available upon request
  • Member of the Institute of Packaging Professionals for 12 years

43601  Technical Sales Representative – Candidate has sales volume of $5M selling inks, coatings and raw materials in the Southeast, with no non-compete

This candidate is a sales and marketing professional with extensive hands-on technical experience.  He possesses a proven ability to increase sales and solve challenging problems through creative solutions.  He is extremely effective at coordinating sales and technical efforts through all levels of an organization.

41341  Structural Packaging Designer – This MSU graduate has spent eight years with International Paper, and has experience in CAPE/SCORE, corrugated, electronic specifications and food packaging; open to any packaging position, will relocate

Candidate recognized, capitalized and enhanced business opportunities through new business and grew old business through current customers.  He maintained working relationships with customers and vendors, and coordinated between sales and manufacturing to ensure that designs met customer specifications and plant capabilities through knowledge of production process, machine limitations and production standards.  He served as the technical resource for packaging freight regulations, hazmat regulations, material and package performance systems.  He has a full understanding of testing processes for corrugated material including board and wax analysis.  He has manually fabricated samples by slitter table or plotter, delivered training in hazmat awareness, put into place die inspection system, managed the die technician’s arena of responsibilities, and prioritized and managed design sales presentations to internal and external customers in a timely manner.  Clients include BASF, Perdue Farms, Pilgrim's Pride, Gift Wrap, Roger Wood, Allied Air and Invista.  He also performed regional support for package performance database. 

41133  Sales Representative – Candidate sells packaging supplies, industrial supplies and jan-san in the central states and Kentucky, with no non-compete

This person has 12 years of sales experience, including three years in packaging sales.  He develops new and existing customer relationships through networking, lead generation and cold calling, and solves packaging and shipping issues by analyzing the customer’s procedures and needs.

42805  Customer Service Representative – This CSR has 21 years of professional experience in industrial packaging and wholesale distribution, 11 years in purchasing, and experience with key account management, working with outside sales, customer relations and vendor/distributor relationships

Candidate is a professional who is dynamic, energetic and customer focused.  He has been recognized for taking the initiative, and for following through in order to deliver results in customer satisfaction.  He has experience outside of wholesale distribution including retail sales and management.  He works well with others and is a team player that is totally customer focused.  Skills/qualifications:

  • 21 years of experience in industrial packaging and wholesale distribution
  • 21 years of experience in customer service
  • 11 years in purchasing
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to communicate information to help anticipate customer needs
  • Ability to help solve problems and offer solutions
  • Demonstrated ability to facilitate customer discussions with broad range of product knowledge
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced industry
  • Experience working in dynamic business environments with teams and multiple resource demands
  • Ability to organize workload for maximum efficiency

43593  General Manager/Operations Manager – Technical operations director and business development professional with a BS in Chemical Engineering and an MBA is looking for new management opportunities within the packaging/printing industry

Candidate is a technical operations director and business development professional with over 25 years of experience.  This person possesses a strong understanding of operations, cost analysis and market trends to grow and expand products and services.  Areas of strength and expertise:

  • Business development
  • Operations management
  • Ability to close
  • Financial P&L
  • Lean manufacturing
  • Six Sigma
  • Market and trend analysis
  • Technical sales management
  • Expatriate and international management
  • Engineering expertise
  • Contract negotiations

43692  Sales Representative – This sales rep has a sales volume of $1.8M selling capital equipment including large format digital printers, multi-color printing equipment, ink, printable substrates and various consumables in the Carolinas, with no non-compete

Candidate is an effective salesperson with 14 years of experience, with the ability to develop, maintain and motivate existing and future customers to positively react to innovative products and solutions by utilizing technical training and communication skills.

  • Implemented ISO certification and certified as an ISO instructor

  • Well regarded for interpersonal, written and oral communication

  • Proficient in multitasking

  • Computer experience using both Windows and Mac platforms

  • Software experiences include Webex, MS Live Meeting, MS Office and Lotus

43908  Sales Representative – This corrugated sales rep has 10 years of experience, a sales volume of $3M in central Kentucky, and no non-compete

Candidate is a high-achieving sales professional with extensive experience in growing sales territories.  He successfully negotiated purchasing agreements and managed institutional bids.  He has developed long-term customer relationships and implemented strategies to reduce customer costs while maintaining high sales margins.  He possesses expertise in the following areas:

  • New account hunting strategies
  • Negotiation skills
  • Customer cost reduction strategies
  • Margin repair activities
  • Customer service and support
  • Long term customer bonding

43819  Director of Engineering, Plant Engineering/Plant Manager – Candidate contributed to the success of the foam division by developing a new product line, with duties including the purchase of equipment and design of the tooling to manufacture the product

This person developed his engineering skills starting as design draftsman, design engineer, project engineer, plant engineer, manager of design and development, process engineer and plant manager.  He has successfully managed the startup of several new processes.  He has purchased several new manufacturing facilities and supervised the construction of several others.  He met with industrial development agencies and state air quality districts.  He designed thermoforming and extrusion tooling, and has an excellent knowledge of material handling and plant facilities.  He started up two foam plants of approximately 120,000 sq. ft., relocated the equipment to a new state, completed the installation and got the environmental permits.  Skills include all of the engineering disciplines from design up to plant manager and director of engineering.  This is a person who can work with little supervision and get the job done.  He worked on an R&D project for the packaging of baby food containers, solving a problem with the production of foam insulation board and getting the machine output up by 50%.  He designed the first yogurt container at Rexcel Corporation, and designed a foam egg carton for Borden Chemical.

42847  Capital Equipment Sales Representative – Candidate sells conveyors, packaging equipment, robotics and related items throughout North America, with sales volume of $7M, and would relocate

This person has over 15 years if sales experience.  He has managed sales channels for system integrators, area representatives and manufacturing facilities.  He designed, estimated and sold robotic-based custom automation systems for the packaging, material handling and assembly industries.  He held North American sales and sales management responsibility for assembly, robotics and custom automation product groups, technical evaluation, concept development and estimating for projects, and customer presentations.

44052  General Manager – This GM has over 20 years of sales and management experience, with sales management responsibilities in jan/san, construction, industrial and consumer product sales and marketing

Candidate is responsible for managing revenue, cost elements and P&L of a janitorial, safety and paper supply distribution company located in South Carolina.  He oversees marketing and sales functions as well as day-to-day operations of the business, and is responsible for leading and coordinating the strategic planning functions of the company.

43704  Sales Representative – Sales volume of $3M in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee selling miscellaneous packaging, labels, tags, bags and printing

This person is a seasoned sales manager with a strong track record of success in national and international sales, developing long-term relationships, gaining new accounts, training, coaching, and building and managing sales teams geared for consistently exceeding sales revenue goals.  Additional training and qualifications:

  • Corrugated manufacturing course
  • Gravure printing course
  • Board and machinery qualifications
  • Folding carton manufacturing course
  • Catalog/thin print course
  • Offset printing studies course
  • Digital imaging and graphic design studies
  • Machinery studies: Ahlstrom, Serome (die-cutter), BRD and others
  • Cerutti press qualification – 9 Color
  • Pulp and paper training course
  • Dale Carnegie sales training
  • Management development training program
  • Managing exceptional sales performance
  • Member of T.A.P.P.I.
  • Member of American Society for Quality Control
  • Detailed work with most major catalog printers/converters in US monitoring products, printing, quality and machine ability
  • Microsoft and Internet savvy

44052  Business Development – This proactive, high-energy leader and innovator with a consistent history of exceeding new business and sales goals, reducing costs, taking on new challenges, managing change and excelling with minimal direction is available

Candidate has 18 years of diversified sales and purchasing experience in paper converting/flexible packaging industry at senior level.  Sales volume is $8M in the mid-Atlantic states, New York, Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, West Virginia, Ontario and Quebec, with no non-compete.

41204  Operations Manager/General Manager – This person is a manufacturer of flexible packaging for the fast food/restaurant industry, with full P&L responsibility for a $100M site

  • Developed strategic and tactical operations plan, aligned with business plan and budget
  • Reduced headcount from 283 to 254, saving $1M
  • Launched four new products for major fast food chains and revised products for several other restaurant chains, providing consultation to packaging designers and engineers within client organizations
  • Established a proactive EHS program based upon employee involvement and proactive initiatives
  • Managed $8M capital projects (installation of $4M printing press, plus two laminating lines)
  • Implemented lean manufacturing using Toyota production systems as model

 

 

****Entry Level Designers and Engineers Available****

Interned in the Packaging Industry

Will Relocate

43670  Interned at Johnson & Johnson and Hewlett-Packard, duties included serving in product development, packaging evaluation, multi-project management, testing of packaging materials and cost savings analysis

43672  Interned at Nestlé, duties included creating SOPs for packaging equipment, operating equipment for testing, mock ups, and assisting packaging engineers in projects

43673  Interned at First Choice Packaging and Henkel International, duties included serving as key point contact, sales tooling design, production thermoform packaging, and developing specifications for packages used in adhesive distribution ranging from primary to tertiary

 

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