Enjoy a career, packaged with care, whilst helping protect food, people and the planet
We are a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions. We’re on a mission to make all packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable. Every day, we ensure the hygiene and safety of food and drink for people around the world. We are Huhtamaki.
You could be part of our vision. Because it’s our talented people that make it happen. Our people on the shop floor producing innovative, sustainable products. Our people in our offices delivering excellence for our customers every day. It’s every one of us working together.
We offer a place where you can feel safe, be supported, and make an impact so we can all focus on the future together.
Manages medium-sized sales budget to achieve designated sales objectives. Responsible for new business development with new clients or target customers in an assigned territory or client segment. Develops and implements sales plans, pipeline, activities, and campaigns. May lead a team.
The tasks and activities below are indicative. Other tasks and responsibilities may be added to the activities as and when required based on the business needs:
- Understand the customer needs and portfolio to proactively advise on best solutions.
- Own the New Business/Product Development process from beginning to end.
- Strong link within the organization and across functions for the most commercial benefits to the company and effective new product/business development that deliver values to the customer and the company business growth target.
- Promoting of innovations and new product developments both blueloop and non-blueloop.
- Ensuring sustainable talent supply, development, and engagement.
- Working closely with all functional stakeholders (Operations, finance, Product development, and Innovation...) to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and Huhtamaki.
Qualifications and Experience:
- This role requires broad commercial and Business Development skills
- Ability and experience to promote change and new ways of working in a multinational setup.
- Proven commercial track record of achieving results and delivering profitable sales growth in a multi-category business
- Demonstrated ability to manage new product, new business development in complex product portfolios Experience in developing businesses in mature markets and promoting innovations
- High energy, drive, improvement mindset and ambition
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work in a structured and systematic manner, with clear plans and options
- Willingness to travel when required
Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet.
What We Do
Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste. We embed sustainability in everything we do. We are committed to achieving carbon neutral production and designing all our products to be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2030.
We are a participant in the UN Global Compact and EcoVadis has awarded Huhtamaki with the Gold medal for performance in sustainability. To play our part in managing climate change, we have set science-based targets that have been approved and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative.
With 100 years of history and a strong Nordic heritage we operate in 37 countries and 103 operating locations around the world. Our values Care Dare Deliver guide our decisions and help our team of around 18 000 employees make a difference where it matters. Our 2023 net sales totaled EUR 4.2 billion. Huhtamaki Group is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and our parent company, Huhtamäki Oyj, is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. Find out more about how we are protecting food, people and the planet on www.huhtamaki.com
