As Area Commercial Leader - Southwest, covering 10 plant sales teams in California, Arizona, and West Texas, you will be responsible for leading and managing the Sales organization to maintain and grow profitable revenue streams for the area. You will be responsible for a 500-million plus annually in sales.

　　You will be responsible for understanding the profitability of your area relative to base, growth, attrition analysis, and year over year account progress. In addition, you will work closely with the area manufacturing teams to understand and sell open machine capacity and value-added capabilities.

　　How you will impact WestRock

　　Lead the Sales team to deliver results by executing on weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual sales targets

　　Drive Commercial Excellence to exceed regional volume and profit goals through new account development within targeted market segments, growth in existing accounts, margin improvement plans and enterprise sales support

　　Support area Leadership in developing the annual budget targets for each account contributing forecasted revenue based upon yearly sales trends and current pipeline

　　Monitor profitability levels to track progress against budgeted targets and analyze monthly financial summaries for business unit

　　Understand market dynamics and business drivers that define long-term commercial strategies and have an impact on their region and develop strategies to reach company objectives

　　Motivate and align Sales team and Business Resource Managers to the Play to Win strategy and maximize sales and volume growth

　　Conduct performance reviews and career development plans for Sales Representatives and Business Resource Managers

　　Develop working relationships with other WestRock facilities to create opportunities for additional revenue streams across the enterprise capabilities

　　What you need to succeed:

　　Bachelor’s degree

　　3 to 5 years business-to-business (B2B) Sales experience in a manufacturing/service industry with management or coaching responsibility

　　5+ years of packaging related experience in sales execution and pipeline management

　　Drive results through others and adjust coaching methods, as needed

　　Create and deliver engaging presentations to internal and external audiences

　　Demonstrate sales competence and financial acumen

　　WestRock (NYSE:WRK) partners with our customers to provide differentiated paper and packaging solutions that help them win in the marketplace. WestRock's team members support customers around the world from locations spanning North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Learn more at www.westrock.com.

　　WestRock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to create and maintain a diverse workforce where everyone feels valued, respected, and included. WestRock does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.