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Sales Manager

Salary:

Negotiable

Location:

East Midlands

Location: East Midlands
Salary: Competitive, depending on experience

Our client is an independent corrugated packaging manufacturer, providing innovative, sustainable, and high-performance packaging solutions across multiple industry sectors.

Delivering exceptional customer service, technical expertise, and manufacturing excellence.

 

The Role

  • Sales Manager to develop new business opportunities, grow existing customer relationships, and drive revenue growth across their corrugated packaging portfolio.
  • The Sales Manager will be responsible for identifying and securing profitable new business opportunities while managing and developing key customer accounts.
  • The successful candidate will combine strong commercial acumen with a high level of technical corrugated packaging knowledge, enabling them to provide consultative packaging solutions that deliver value to customers and support their growth strategy.
  • Identify, target, and secure new corrugated packaging opportunities.
  • Develop sales strategies to achieve business growth targets.
  • Build and maintain a strong pipeline of prospects across multiple market sectors.
  • Generate leads through networking, referrals, market intelligence, and industry contacts.

 

This role would particularly suit candidates with experience gained within:

  • Corrugated sheet plants
  • Conventional corrugated packaging manufacturing
  • Packaging merchants and distributors
  • Independent corrugated converters
  • Integrated corrugated packaging businesses

 

Required experience:

  • Proven sales experience within the corrugated packaging industry.
  • Strong background in sheet plants, corrugated box manufacturing, packaging merchants, or distributors.
  • High level of technical knowledge of conventional corrugated packaging.
  • Track record of winning new business and developing key customer relationships.
  • Commercially focused with excellent negotiation and communication skills.

 

The position is field-based and would suit candidates located around Huntingdon, Peterborough, Stamford, Spalding, Bourne, Grantham, Wisbech, Cambridge, Corby, Kettering, Northampton, and surrounding areas.

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Contact Alison Dagnall:

Alison Dagnall

Senior Print & Packaging Consultant
07710 523 618

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