Marketing Manager Flexible Packaging

Job Description:

Qualification:                      MA/MSc in Sales & Marketing or Management (preferred) BA/BSc in Sales & Marketing, Management or Accounting & Finance 

                                             Engineer in Printing Technology

Linguistic skills:                  English: Written (Fluent) Spoken (Fluent)

Experience:                   - Minimum 10 years of experience in the printing & packaging field, with minimum 5 years in a management position directly responsible for sales & marketing and production 

• Minimum 5 years experience of managing a sales & marketing team of at least 3 individuals
• Serving at least 50 industrial clients in various sectors with small run (< 50,000 pcs) and long run ( <3,000,000 pcs) jobs
• Exposure to several technologies including: gravure, laminators, PVC shrink extrusion, LDPE extrusion
• Managing sales of at least 5,500,000 USD per annum

Age:                                     Minimum 35 years old

Product line:                  Laminates

In order to achieve success, some of the Key Skills that the BUH is expected to have include:

Sales & Marketing

1. Strong analytical, problem solving & PR skills
2. Strong organizational skills
3. Ability to identify opportunities to increase margin & sales
4. Ability to use market information to increase market share
5. Ability to create strong relationship with clients
6. Ability to cross sell & up sell
7. Ability to identify & develop new product categories

Production

1. Strong understanding of production processes (gravure, lamination, PVC & LDPE extrusion)

HR

1. Ability to manage, monitor & inspire a team of 10+ individuals
2. Goal setting for subordinates and subsequent productivity and target monitoring
3. Staff recruitment & induction

Administrative Skills

1. Must be proficient with Microsoft Excel

Key Responsibilities:

2. Profitability:
   1. Achieving the sales & profitability targets as per the annual budget
   2. Continuous Process Improvement
3. PR:
   1. Maintaining the strong reputation of the firm with clients
   2. Developing department specific marketing collateral & campaigns
4. HR:
   1. Managinglaminates sales & marketing team and related administrative tasks
   2. Ensuring security of assets directly allocated to laminates sales & marketing team
   3. Induction process & recruitment, and dismissal for direct reportees (for local and expat staff alike, within MOA)
   4. Ensuring a safe, collaborative, and professional workspace, that is in line with Company values
   5. Staff productivity analysis
5. Finance:
   1. Approval of revenue expenditure as per MOA
6. Administrative
   1. Collaborate with Finance team for continuous improvement of ERP to ensure all manual reports are computerized
   2. Reporting as defined
   3. Record keeping (sample approvals, contracts, etc)
   4. QMS/Environmental audit participation
7. Production:
   1. Coordinate with production team to ensure orders are delivered as per client requirements
8. Purchase/Procurement:
   1. To develop the new products and suppliers
9. Stock Management:
   1. Update procurement & stores team of any major changes in client requirements that may affect raw material planning (either an expected increase or decrease in volume requirements)