Strategic Accounts Project Manager (can sit at any Pratt location in the US)

Job Title:

Strategic Accounts Project Manager – Beverage Focus

Job Purpose:

To enhance customer relationships with key Strategic Beverage accounts by providing detailed
project management ensuring the success of our plants, and communications with our
customers.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

- Track, Manage, and Support implementation of projects for Pratt Strategic Accounts
Customers and our Plant teams supporting them.
- Track, Manage, and report on key drivers of the Pratt relationship with key Strategic
Accounts including: quality metrics, complaints and responses, OTIF, sales data, etc.
- Work with Customers and Pratt teams to Create, Evolve, Develop, Support, and Launch
new projects, innovations projects, and renovations of existing products.
- Support Strategic Accounts to win customer loyalty and Pratt plant support for value
projects and gain access to project launches at the beginning, through execution and
final completion.
- Present to joint leadership, as required.
- Consult on projects both internal and external to Pratt.
- Track, Publish, and Present reports on all project status.
- Track, Publish and Present reports on all key customer and Pratt performance metrics.
- Support cross company and functional Project teams to achieve successful and timely
completion of projects
- Support Pratt teams with key information to support Pratt manufacturing facilities and
process
- Provide project management support to customer Subject Matter Experts, Packaging
Engineers, and Graphics teams.
- Regularly attend customer meeting and disseminate key information for projects to
both the customers and Pratt.
- Calculate sustainability of customer projects related to corrugated.
- Manage and store CAD drawings as needed for various projects.
- Track, manage, disseminate and store all customer specification and Pratt internal
documentation.
- Assist with graphics project management and pre-engineering calls with customers,
agencies, and their associated graphics departments.

- Work with Strategic Accounts to implement new digital, graphics, and LEDP projects, as
needed.

Qualifications

Education:

- 4-year degree – preferred
- Alternatively, 10-years Corrugated Package Designer, Project Management, and Graphics

Experience:

- Experience working with customer Procurement, Quality, Technical, Graphics, and
Operational teams, at all levels.
- Experience working with Pratt Management, Production, Customer Service, Quality, and
Logistics.
- Experience using Microsoft Products Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Publisher
- Experience using Google Sheets, Calendar, Drive, Gmail, Docs and Meet
- Experience with scheduling and managing meetings using Google Meets, Microsoft
Teams and Zoom.
- Experience using a project database
- Experience teaching and presenting in front of both small and large groups
- Experience working with the beverage industry and experience with packaging glass,
PET and R-PET bottles.
- Experience with ArtiosCad, is a plus
- Experience with TOPS pallet patterns, is a plus

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

- Ability to work well with Customers and Pratt teams with tight timelines, while
remaining calm, focused, and in control of the facts.
- Ability to keep projects organized and tasks clearly in focus
- Ability to work with multiple customer and Pratt teams, in multiple team environments
simultaneously
- Ability to work from both customer office and home office, as needed.
- Ability to work during non-standard office hours
- Ability to maintain communication and work utilizing the customer’s computer system
and email/calendar simultaneous with the Pratt system.

- Comprehensive understanding of corrugated manufacturing and industry quality
standards
- Knowledgeable about customer machine equipment: case forming, divider inserting,
wraparound form-fill-seal, tray-formers, and drop packers, is a plus.
- General knowledge of spirits distribution and beer distribution
- General Knowledge of ISTA testing and applications
- Ability to travel, as needed.

Pratt Industries is America's 4th largest paper and packaging company with more than 10,000+ highly skilled green collar employees dedicated to the environment and sustainability. Pratt Industries is one of the largest corrugated packaging companies in America, with sophisticated manufacturing facilities in more than twenty states. The company operates several of the most modern, cost effective paper mills in the country, as well as a series of sheet and box plants strategically placed throughout the United States offering a wide range of creative packaging solutions. Pratt Industries is committed to recycling and the environment by harvesting the urban forest.

Pratt Industries offers competitive compensation plans with incentive opportunities, full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, All State, Pre-Paid Legal, and 401(k) with company match, paid vacation, paid holidays, and childbearing and parental leave.