Sales Director

About the role

The Sales Director is directly responsible for the sales, growth, customer satisfaction and gross contributions results within the assigned geographic scope and product portfolio. They hold direct management of the sales director team and are responsible for transformational leadership on identifying strategic channel capability, unlocking value at new and existing customers while assessing talent capabilities to meet the AOP.

Responsibilities

• Unlock value with new and existing customers and instill the behaviors within the broad organization, demonstrating the ability to manage the portfolio (trade up and trade out)
• A commitment to talent excellence; experience leading high performing teams, outperforming expectations, both directly and indirectly
• Strategic mindset: Integrate market data, competition, trends, and other factors to develop a commercial strategy in alignment with the BU strategy while evaluating distribution strategies to grow top line
• Net Sales: Team performance and development
• Strong value proposition with customer
• Achievement Of Sales, Growth And Contribution Objectives
• Establish, in conjunction with the business management, the sales, growth and margin targets as part of the operating plan and forecast processes with high degree of accuracy
• Maintain and coordinate any required corrective actions to sales programs and/or processes as necessary to achieve such sales targets
• Identify and execute continuous improvement initiatives to lower the sales cost and maximize overall contribution
• Sales Leadership: Plans, controls and directs activities of the sales force to obtain maximum time efficiency and prioritization, sales volume, growth and contribution
• Applies existing sales performance and directs the sales programs and objectives within the region
• Ensures sales team is trained to perform their jobs effectively, and responsible for appropriately managing talent of team to maintain high performance levels
• Ensure consistent delivery of “One Amcor Way” as per the Value Plus Commercial Excellence Program
• Provides the senior management with regular business updates and course of action
• Facilitates integrated/cross business decisions on sales and marketing (i.e. To optimize for “Amcor” not the individual business)
• Leadership and People Management: Lead, develop, engage, motivate and assign people to appropriate tasks. Ensure career development and succession planning is in place
• Responsible for achieving and maintaining strong team performance, managing the individual KPI’s and addressing gaps effectively
• Implementation of commercial excellence programs and principles with the Sales team
• Model Amcor’s Values in all internal and external dealings, exhibiting desired behaviours and approaches in all business activities
• Strategic And/or Key Account Management: Oversees development and management of account plans for several strategic and/or global key accounts
• Understand and develop relationships with key decision makers
• Strong, proactive relationships with strategic/key account customers that result in win situations
• Defines customer satisfaction KPI’s for key accounts

Qualifications

• University degree in a relevant field
• MBA preferred
• 10+ years of progressive experience in commercial or adjacent roles in a complex industry (ideally food/healthcare packaging)
• Successful leadership and management in national and regional accounts with proven strategies to grow the top line, develop a channel strategy and demonstrate customer profitability
• Leadership of complex org structure with small, med, and large accounts with a focus on commercial excellence
• Leadership of a large organization with proven strategies on talent management, succession planning, talent assessment
• Possess exceptional interpersonal and communication skills and polish needed to effectively share and engage the organization and customer