Sales Representative

This is a hybrid sales position, covering Southwest Missouri, Northwest Arkansas, Northeast Oklahoma and Southeast Kansas. We require the candidate to live within the territory.Midland Paper, Packaging and Supplies invites intelligent, motivated and enthusiastic individuals for business-to-business direct sales to reach out for consideration.Title: Outside Sales RepresentativeMidland now serves the commercial printing and packaging markets with its corporate headquarters in Wheeling, Illinois, 10 distribution centers from Minneapolis to St. Louis, and sales offices servicing publication markets from coast to coast. The key has always been bringing together the best people to grow the business and never being timid about investing in the future. Midland ranks as one of Chicago's Top 50 Private Companies and is one of Americas largest independent paper and packaging distribution firms. We are currently looking for a Sales Rep that has experience in the packaging industry.The Outside Sales Representatives will be expected to take an entrepreneurial approach to develop new business based on their own long-term strategic relationships to grow revenue and profitability.Responsibilities will be to uncover sales opportunities, develop new business, increase sales penetration and profits within the accounts that you service, develop knowledge of the products and services we offer at Midland Paper and provide information to build strong collaborative relationships.Qualifications:Proven ability to develop and execute a sales plan to reach target accounts.Recognize customer needs, strong proven presentation skills; and ability to effectively manage a sales territory and the selling process.Required experience is a minimum of 5 years of outside sales experience in the paper and/or packaging industry with a successful track record of documented gross trade margin increases year over year.Midland offers competitive benefits and is an equal opportunity employer.NO RECRUITERS PLEASE.Position Requirements:Required experience is a minimum of 5 years of outside sales experiencePaper and/or packaging industry with a successful track record of documented gross trade margin increases year over year required#J-18808-Ljbffr