Koch Industries

Area Sales Manager

Koch Industries$170K — $200K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of B2B sales experience in packaging or related fields
  • Proven leadership in mentoring and developing sales teams
  • Experience in creating and executing sales strategies
  • Strong financial acumen including P&L analysis and forecasting
  • Bachelor's degree preferred in business-related fields

Responsibilities

  • Manage and enhance the efficiency of the commercial sales team
  • Develop collaborative partnerships across business operations
  • Leverage expertise in Northern California's agriculture market
  • Identify and pursue opportunities for profitability improvement
  • Design market sales strategies and pricing that align with customer needs
  • Strengthen relationships with existing and potential customers
  • Implement and utilize sales training processes for team success
  • Ensure compliance with safety regulations and company standards

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability support
  • Retirement plan options
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance programs
  • Family support options, including paid parental leave and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Your Job

To further emphasize the organization's focus on Preferred Partnerships and virtuous cycles of mutual benefit, we are seeking an Area Sales Manager for the Northern California Agriculture Product Segment to support our integrated box business. The Area Sales Manager will be responsible for developing and driving solutions and profitable growth through defining and implementing sales strategies for the market. This is a highly visible role critical to our success at Georgia Pacific Corrugated driving continuous transformation to create value for our customer base.

  • The ideal candidate for the Area Sales Manager role is entrepreneur, open to challenging the status quo, and leading our commercial sales team to understand our customer's vision and pain points so that we may maximize sales effectiveness through preferred partnerships.


This role reports to the Area General Manager. The ideal candidate will reside in a reasonable proximity to our Northern California box plants (San Leandro/Modesto/Madera California). Ability to travel up to 40% (including overnight travel). Relocation may be considered for this position.

What You Will Do

  • Manage and develop our commercial sales team including recruiting, retaining , and ongoing development of the team.
  • Build mutually beneficial partnerships between sales and operations as well as working collaboratively with other commercial business capabilities including Business Analytics, Revenue Management, Supply Chain, Marketing, Salesforce Effectiveness, S&OP etc.
  • Brings a background of knowledge in the Northern California agriculture market to better support our sales team and customers
  • Continuous improvement of overall profit margin & seek opportunities to innovate and drive profitability through strategic road mapping and understanding the impact to the P&L.
  • Responsible for creating market sales strategy & pricing that support a market focused vision.
  • Continuously build existing and prospective customer relationships.
  • Create value through customer success by adopting and utilizing our sales training process.
  • Hold the sales team accountable for a robust pipeline based on the needs of the region.
  • Ensure compliance & safety with applicable governmental regulations, GP standards, and site practices.
  • Utilize Microsoft 365 applications (Excel, Word, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, etc.) and CRM Microsoft Dynamics.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • At least 5 years of o utside B2B sales experience in packaging, corrugated or a related field.
  • Experience mentoring or leading a sales team and motivate them to achieve sales targets.
  • Experience developing and implementing sales strategies and plans.
  • Business and financial acumen, particularly in the areas of analysis, pricing, forecasting, market trends and budgeting.


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience in corrugated packaging sales in the agriculture or produce markets in California.
  • Knowledge of the packaging sector, manufacturing processes and design.
  • Proven experience as a sales manager or in a similar role.
  • Experience with P&L analysis.
  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in any field with preference in business, marketing, finance, management, or related field.
  • Completion of a formal sales training program or demonstrated experience with leading teams in successful sales process.


For this role, we anticipate paying $170,000- $200,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

For this role, we anticipate paying $170,000- $200,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

What You Will Do

  • Manage and develop our commercial sales team including recruiting, retaining , and ongoing development of the team.
  • Build mutually beneficial partnerships between sales and operations as well as working collaboratively with other commercial business capabilities including Business Analytics, Revenue Management, Supply Chain, Marketing, Salesforce Effectiveness, S&OP etc.
  • Brings a background of knowledge in the Northern California agriculture market to better support our sales team and customers
  • Continuous improvement of overall profit margin & seek opportunities to innovate and drive profitability through strategic road mapping and understanding the impact to the P&L.
  • Responsible for creating market sales strategy & pricing that support a market focused vision.
  • Continuously build existing and prospective customer relationships.
  • Create value through customer success by adopting and utilizing our sales training process.
  • Hold the sales team accountable for a robust pipeline based on the needs of the region.
  • Ensure compliance & safety with applicable governmental regulations, GP standards, and site practices.
  • Utilize Microsoft 365 applications (Excel, Word, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, etc.) and CRM Microsoft Dynamics.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • At least 5 years of o utside B2B sales experience in packaging, corrugated or a related field.
  • Experience mentoring or leading a sales team and motivate them to achieve sales targets.
  • Experience developing and implementing sales strategies and plans.
  • Business and financial acumen, particularly in the areas of analysis, pricing, forecasting, market trends and budgeting.


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience in corrugated packaging sales in the agriculture or produce markets in California.
  • Knowledge of the packaging sector, manufacturing processes and design.
  • Proven experience as a sales manager or in a similar role.
  • Experience with P&L analysis.
  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in any field with preference in business, marketing, finance, management, or related field.
  • Completion of a formal sales training program or demonstrated experience with leading teams in successful sales process.


For this role, we anticipate paying $170,000- $200,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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