Sales/Account Manager – Packaging

Title: Project Manager – Sales and Account Manager 
Company Description: Luxury Packaging Company 
Location: New York 
Salary: 75-85k
**Salary is commensurate with experience and is an estimated range provided by JBC.

Seeking an ambitious Project Manager who wants to grow into a sales position for a global packaging group that owns their own factories. This full-time position reports to the Managing Director based in New York.

Responsibilities 
• Follows projects and production through all the way from prospection to final delivery
• Works closely with our production facilities and teams in China, New York and Paris
• Assists in the development and implementation of action plans to enable time, resource and process management.
• Prioritizes work using discretion and time zones
• Coordinates project meetings including kick-off, team meetings, client meetings, risk assessment, lessons learned, post launch reviews, and others as needed.
• Effectively and efficiently conveys project progress, including project plan, timeline, challenges, etc., to stakeholders.
• Assesses, anticipates, and communicates project risks and opportunities across departments and stakeholders.
• Troubleshoots problems and challenges, know when to escalate as needed to keep project moving.
• Drives governance to ensure prioritization of initiatives across critical and urgent
business deliverables.
• Holds internal and external teams accountable for the delivery of commitments, escalate issues as needed
• Ensures that project, order and delivery timelines are coordinated and managed accurately, via Critical Path Analysis systems to ensure all deadlines are achieved and communicated internally and externally.
• Ensures project documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored.
• Delivery of a high number of SKUs at one time across multiple products and a varied number of brands.
• Works closely with the Operations and Design teams to ensure that standards, processes and agreed project management methods are maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordination and production of project reports.
• Propose and present project management tools and strategy solutions.

The ideal candidate: 
• Uses technology (M365, CRM, ERP) and data as valuable tools to stay organized and informed
• Positive “Can do” attitude, resourceful, solution driven
• Critical thinker, analytical, organized, disciplined, resourceful, proactive, and execution oriented
• Strong project management skills
• Customer-centric with ability to drive alignment across teams and business leaders
• Self-driven, independent thinker, not afraid to challenge the status-quo
• Fast learner, flexible, able to manage complex matrixed network of Brands and Functions
• Experience working with recognized project management processes
• Excellent communication & time management skills.
• Experience working with international clients
• Speaks another language other than French and English (preferably Mandarin and Spanish)