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Company Overview
Why Choose Us?
Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.
Our Sustainability Commitment
The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.
Job Description
Summary of Position
The Product and Zero Waste Specialist is responsible for driving waste diversion sales for Eco-Products customers by utilizing relationships with haulers, composters, and our sustainability-minded customers. This position will serve as a "consultant" to our team and our customer base with a focus on Waste Diverting operators and direct-sales accounts (i.e., stadiums, corporate campuses, and universities, etc.).
Job Specifications
• Work alongside Sales Managers, Sustainability Manager, brokers, distributor representatives and Boulder corporate team to target and assist to close high-volume accounts in the adoption of waste diversion practices using Eco-Products foodservice packaging.
• Develop a working knowledge of local and state policy related to foodservice packaging and waste diversion infrastructure to assist customers with compliance and to collaborate with the corporate team about advocacy opportunities.
• Work together with the broader Product and Zero Waste Specialist team, composters and haulers, a variety of prominent industry groups, local advocacy efforts, and the Sustainability Manager, to advance composter acceptance of compostable packaging and increase commercial composting infrastructure across the Eco-Products sales footprint.
• Willingness to travel up to 30%, including overnight trips.
• This position supports the markets of Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Southern Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky.
Responsibilities
• Drive waste diverting operator sales in coordination with the RSM and brokers.
• Serve as a consultant to both prospects and clients looking to strengthen their commitment to sustainable packaging and waste diversion.
• Develop and expand relationships with compost manufacturers and food waste haulers in the region and drive forward increased acceptance of compostable foodservice packaging at compost operations.
• Be informed of market conditions, product innovations, legislative challenges or opportunities, waste diversion infrastructure opportunities, and competitor products, prices, and sales.
• Answer customers' questions about products, prices, availability and product uses. Provide basic product information and practical training to distribution personnel.
• Seek and develop new business; identify prospective customers by utilizing national account data, as well as, follow up on leads from existing clients, attending trade shows and conferences.
• Create and present effective presentations that successfully communicates Eco-Products' value proposition and services as part of our category solution.
• Other duties as assigned.
Company Benefits
What You'll Get From Us
Benefits
With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.
Community Engagement
At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.
Training and Development
We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.
Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact myHRservices@novolex.com.
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