Account Executive AE

Korpack
Bloomingdale, IL
$100K a year
Full-time

Are you a competitive impact player who is self-driven and looking for a challenge? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, responsive, and GET S*%T DONE (GSD) environment?

If this sounds like you, read on for an exciting career opportunity in a fast-growing company.

Who We Are :

Our vision is to become a leader amongst the packaging companies by continually improving our performance, meeting applicable statutory / regulatory standards.

Our mission is to delight customers, by providing quality services - consistently on time, keeping our promises and maintaining lasting relations.

Our core values are :

  • D - Determined
  • I - Innovative
  • S - Smile
  • R - Responsive
  • U - Understanding
  • P - Proactive
  • T - Teamwork

What Your Day will Consist of :

  • Aggressively identify, pursue, and close business with potential target accounts.
  • Establishing productive relationships with key personnel
  • Proactively identify business opportunities for Korpack across all accounts.
  • Maintain a high level of client follow-up and communication
  • Travel to customer locations as required
  • Prepare and present Quarterly Business Reviews to key customers
  • Provide feedback / insights into the client's "pains" and "desired gains"
  • Assist in facilitating overall sales operations including : customer onboarding, quoting and quote follow-up, new business development within current customers, order management and approval, support of customer success team and customer success activity as needed, coordination of sales operations activity, i.

e., welcome packages, portal setup, stock agreement setup and maintenance, artwork coordination from proof to execution, samples, sales materials, etc.

What does success look like? (What You'll do - Mission of the role)

The mission of the role is to identify, pursue, onboard and retain / grow target clients.

What We Expect of You

Work Ethic / Need for Achievement : You are ambitious and strive for excellence. You set challenging goals and hold yourself accountable for exceeding them.

You are willing to work as hard as possible to get things done.

Curiosity : You understand a potential customer's context through effective questioning and listening. You ask questions in a genuine way.

You educate potential customers through the questions you ask.

  • Confident / Positivity : You are self-assured and are largely unfazed by rejection. You learn from negative experiences with an optimistic attitude.
  • Customer-focused : white-glove service advocate.
  • Organization / Efficiency : You are organized and orderly. You work in an efficient and effective manner with minimal wasted time.

You focus on key priorities.

Intelligent / Learner : You learn complex concepts quickly. You demonstrate the ability to proficiently understand and absorb new information.

You grasp new concepts quickly and challenge the status quo.

Creativity : Forward thinking; challenge the status quo.

What You Need to Bring to the Role

Required Experience

  • 2+ years of complex B2B solution sales experience
  • Proven track record of closing new business
  • Competence using CRM, LinkedIn, and Microsoft Office

Desired Experience

  • Prior packaging experience
  • Familiarity with multiple CRM platforms / Sales generation tools

What Challenges We Expect

There is a significant learning curve in this role, with custom solutions and over 200,000+ SKUs from a range of specialized and trusted partners (vendors / suppliers).

The amount of information may feel overwhelming at first.

  • We have cutting-edge tools and technologies that will take time to learn how and when to best apply.
  • Packaging sales is a competitive market, and it takes grit, perseverance, and a positive outlook to overcome rejection and achieve success.

How We'll Support You

  • Sales Leadership : for hands-on direction, coaching, and support.
  • Marketing : email automation and content, brand awareness, and lead generation
  • Account Managers : to support the day-to-day needs of your clients
  • Finance : to evaluate financial strength, credit terms, accounting processes, and invoicing
  • Sales Operations : including engineering, pricing analysts, and project managers
  • Equipment Specialist to grow machinery and parts & service support.
  • You will have a team around you to help you perform in your role.
  • Training on industry and company software, tools, product knowledge, and use of robust ERP platform.
  • Sales Training, courses to develop the team.

What You'll Earn

Aggressive compensation and earnings potential ($100K+), 401K, Competitive benefits, Vacation, etc.

Flexible work from home options available.

Compensation : $100,000.00 per year

Korpack, Inc is the fastest-growing, privately owned packaging company in the country as named by Inc. 5000 and their prestigious Inc.

5000 list. We offer a fun and fast-paced work environment, tremendous, unlimited, growth opportunities with a work hard and play hard mentality.

As Korpack continues to experience exponential growth, we're always looking to find the best talent looking to disrupt the packaging industry and help grow Korpack to be the premier packaging company in North America.

Where there is a will, there is a way

Korpack does things a little differently than you might expect. This is not your stereotypical slow moving, old fashioned packaging company.

We pride ourselves on being FAST. Fast moving, fast to quote, fast to react and fast to adapt new technologies. We act more like a start-up than an established brand with our pedigree.

We NEVER take no for an answer and live for solving the unsolvable.

Our team performs herculean tasks for our customers daily and sometimes you think people should be wearing capes instead of a button-down.

Our customers are our friends, our family, our responsibility. When they win, we win. When they do not, we take it personally.

Failure is not an option, and no one will ever beat us without a fight. We take your business seriously. When you work with Korpack you have a partner, not a vendor.

We are not good losers. We do not want to compete; we want to win. We do not settle. We do not want to be A packaging company;

we want to be the BEST packaging company. We believe our word is our bond and we will never break your trust. You want to do business with people you like, and we do as well.

We do not want to offer you products, we want to provide groundbreaking solutions that decrease your costs and increase your productivity.

even if that isn't what you asked for.

We play just as hard as we work. This is Korpack.

Benefits

We offer an extremely competitive benefits package that includes :

  • Competitive health insurance coverage, dental, vision, life insurance and LTD.
  • 401K with company match
  • Generous PTO
  • Profit Sharing
  • Bonus & Aggressive Commission Plans & Annual Reviews
  • Monthly team building activities and events
  • 30+ days ago
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