Account Executive

Amcor plc

About the role

Full time

Americas - North America - United States - Indianapolis - Remote/Home Indiana

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Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an everchanging world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

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Job Description

The key responsibilities of the Account Executive include managing a book of customers and products in the Spirits & Wine segment of our Rigid Packaging Solutions North America Division, selling Closures, Bottles, and Specialties. This person will be actively involved at multiple levels within the organization in discussions and decisions for existing and future business developments. This position will be responsible for maintaining and growing the assigned territory to accelerate growth and profitability for our customers and for Amcor.

Primary Responsibilities

Develop business beyond current accounts as part of a formalized plan, to be aligned with the Sales Director. Develop and execute strategic plans to provide organic growth to Amcor, including a strong pipeline of active opportunities for future business with your customers

Identify comprehensive understanding of customer needs both long term and short term, differentiate and sell the value of Amcor’s products and services, and drive opportunities aligned with Amcor portfolio

Conduct systematic performance reviews with accounts

Orchestrate and lead key business negotiations, supporting Amcor’s interests demonstrating an ability to influence decision and actions

Successfully identify solutions Amcor can provide to enable broad account relationships at the mid to high levels while spreading throughout the functional areas of each organization

Build highly collaborative relationships between Amcor and key account/s to include (e.g. senior leadership, procurement, engineering, quality, operations, sales management, support teams, key Amcor contacts)

Manage projects from concept through to sales and delivery; identify and align resources required to execute

Coordinate Executive Management, R&D, Marketing and other functions to support account

Be the voice of the customer inside Amcor articulating customer needs, timelines, priorities, insights

Implementation and support of robust commercial processes (such as sales pipeline maintenance using company software) to provide visibility of your business throughout the organization and enable effective communication

Qualifications

Requires a minimum of a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent

3-5 years of sales experience in distribution, direct sales, or national accounts required

Candidates with 3+ years of experience in the packaging field or in a related area will be preferred

Knowledge of plastics category will be preferred (injection molding, blow molding)

Self-starter who is results oriented

Excellent communication and presentation skills

Ability to work cross-functionally to drive business solutions

Solid relationship building focus

Proficient computer and organizational skills

Ability to learn new products and technologies

Effective analytical and problem-solving mindset

Strong negotiation and business skill sets

Prefer candidates who live in the Midwest, near a major airport

Up to 50% travel, although the job is remotely based

Our Expectations

We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team

Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor’s quality, service, and innovation

Our investors benefit from Amcor’s consistent growth and superior returns

The environment is better off because of Amcor’s leadership and products

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