Sales Director- Healthcare Pharmaceuticals

We are global, we are impacting the lives of millions every day, we are making a difference!

At Amcor we are inspired to change the packaging industry and are taking on the aspirational challenge to make all our products recyclable or reusable by 2025. Through our products and global footprint, we are in a unique position to truly make a difference in the packaging space. Our products impact the lives of millions of people across the globe every day from food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home- and personal-care, and other essential products. Amcor is a thriving S&P 500 organisation listed both on the NYSE (AMCR) and ASX (AMC) with US$13 billion in sales. We have a proud history dating back to the 1860’s and come a long way from a single paper mill based in Melbourne to becoming the global leading packaging company. Today, Amcor is an international organisation empowering its 50,000 employees in over 40 countries and across 250 sites.

Will you be next to join our journey towards a more sustainable future? At Amcor we are always looking for talented and passionate individuals who are motivated to make a difference. Working at Amcor means you will have a unique opportunity to be a part of an organisation that is committed to providing sustainable packaging solutions. To find out more about our commitment to sustainability and about Amcor, visit .

Job Description

The Sales Director is directly responsible for the sales, growth, customer satisfaction and gross contributions results within the assigned geographic scope and product portfolio. Holds direct management of the sales director team. The job holder will be responsible for transformational leadership on identifying strategic channel capability, unlocking value at new and existing customers while assessing talent capabilities to meet the AOP. This individual will demonstrate growth in the segment and instill commercial excellence within downstream teams. The Sales Director will have an intentional focus on talent development, management and succession planning.

What You Get To Do

Key deliverables and performance indicators

• 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
• Monitor businesses performance against targets
• Coordinate any required corrective actions to sales programs and/or processes as necessary to achieve such sales targets
• Identifies and executes 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
• Appraises 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
• Is responsible to provide the senior management with regular business updates and course of action
• Facilitate 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

What We Value

• Customer Focus
• Pricing & Negotiations
• Delivers Results
• Prospecting and Pipeline Development
• Sets priorities and drives results
• Communication & Relationship Building
• Influencing Others
• Managing & measuring work
• Engages People and Teams
• Attracts and develops talent

What We Want From You

• University degree in a relevant field. MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in commercial or adjacent roles in a complex industry (healthcare packaging preferred)
• 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, medium, 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

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

Equal Opportunity Employer/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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