3M Packaging Specialist - Western Canada

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Job Description:

3M Packaging Specialist – Western Canada (Calgary or Edmonton)

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 wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Packaging Specialist for the Western Canada Territory (BC, AB, MB, SK) you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative 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 within 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
• Current, Valid Driver’s license is required, as you will be issued a company vehicle for this position.
• Three (3) year of field sales experience independently managing a specified territory in a private, public, government or military environment

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

• Master's degree in Business or Sales Development
• Experience within the packaging industry working through distribution.
• Five (5) years of professional field sales experience and collaboration responsibilities in a private, public, government or military environment.

Work Location:

• Remote - Alberta
• Territory: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba

Travel: May include up to 50% Domestic

Relocation Assistance: Not authorized

The expected compensation range for this position is 108,639-132,781, which includes base pay and variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. 

3M Canada welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

We work to reflect the diversity of our global customers, suppliers and channel partners, and build on each individual employee’s abilities.

At 3M, we know that inclusion is the key to unlocking the power of our diversity. An inclusive culture is one that supports and appreciates differences and provides fair and equal opportunities for everyone. It’s a place where people realize they are respected for their whole and unique selves, and that they belong. Inclusion leads to engagement, which in turn fosters the collaboration, creativity and innovation that drive long-term growth – for 3M as well as for our people and our teams.

Applicable to Canada Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $100,591 - $132,781, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position.
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3M Canada welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
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