Packaging Sales Specialist, Chicago, IL

Job Description:

Packaging Sales Specialist, Chicago, IL

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Packaging Specialist for Illinois, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Leads the development of new and existing end user customers, focused on the packaging portfolio of solutions while also developing opportunities at multi-location end users with the Food & Beverage, Healthcare, and e-fulfillment markets.
• Implements collaboration with the packaging sales team as well as inside sales resources to engage on new opportunities with end users and channel partners.
• Determines sales goals and utilizes resources and tactics to meet and exceed sales objectives.
• Supports relationships with key personnel at multiple levels in the buying process to attain territory sales goals and generate leads for new business.
• Provides input in the development of short- and long-term growth targets that align with existing business plans and strategies for greater territory and account penetration.

Company Vehicle

This position requires driving a company vehicle, which will require pre-employment and ongoing review of motor vehicle history for candidates who are offered and hired for this position.

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
• Three (3) years of field sales experience independently managing a specified territory in a private, public, government or military environment
• Current, valid Driver’s License

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Master's degree in Business or Sales Development (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
• Experience within the packaging industry working through distribution.
• Five (5) years of professional field sales experience and …