What are the responsibilities and job description for the Regional Sales Director, South Central (Must Reside in Nashville/Memphis) position at Sealed Air Corporation?
Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value to our stakeholders. In 2025, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in sales and has approximately 16,100 employees who serve customers in 119 countries/territories. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.
Job Description
The Regional Sales Director role is critical to leading a team that executes a truly differentiated set of commercial insights to local customers and prospects for the Protective portfolio across the South Central region (TN, AL, MS, LA, AR, MO, KS), with a strong preference for a leader based in the Nashville or Memphis area.
Reporting into the Division Sales Leader, the Regional Sales Director will lead a team of sales individual contributors dedicated to a geographic territory to grow business and maintain current accounts across the assigned region. This individual will also be responsible for managing distributor relationships within their sales territory in addition to empowering and motivating their team to achieve required financial, operational and people development objectives.
Responsibilities Include
Results driven and works with a sense of urgency. Customer centric with an understanding of strategic priorities across Protective business. Strong leadership, communication and team management skills with the ability to inspire and motivate the team. Distribution managment experience and Data driven decision maker with experience in sales forecasting, pipeline management and performance analysis.
Required Qualifications
Total Target Compensation (Base Commission):
$164,800 - 265,305
The range disclosed complies with applicable state and local pay transparency laws. Offers within this range will be determined by considering relevant factors including education, experience, and internal alignment. This position may also be eligible for annual performance bonuses and other incentive programs. Sealed Air offers a competitive benefits package that includes health, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off, and other benefits designed to promote well-being.
Requisition id: 54897
Relocation: No
Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
Job Description
The Regional Sales Director role is critical to leading a team that executes a truly differentiated set of commercial insights to local customers and prospects for the Protective portfolio across the South Central region (TN, AL, MS, LA, AR, MO, KS), with a strong preference for a leader based in the Nashville or Memphis area.
Reporting into the Division Sales Leader, the Regional Sales Director will lead a team of sales individual contributors dedicated to a geographic territory to grow business and maintain current accounts across the assigned region. This individual will also be responsible for managing distributor relationships within their sales territory in addition to empowering and motivating their team to achieve required financial, operational and people development objectives.
Responsibilities Include
- Leads, Inspires, Manages, and Coaches High-Performing Sales Team – Leverages consultative sales approach to drive growth; recruits, develops, motivates, and retains team of highly-skilled, results-oriented Territory Business managers/Territory Account managers; manages wide and deep sales pipeline; uses analytical skills to proactively find ways to increase team productivity; coaches team to make appropriate field and pricing decisions; provides price input and approvals; performance manages team as needed; manages compensation; works closely with Sales Operations, Training, Lead Generation, and Demand Generation teams to keep sales teams current on development needs and regularly exceeding customer expectations.
- Demonstrates Market and Solution Knowledge – Understands and clearly articulates full suite of Sealed Air Solutions, products, campaigns and programs to leaders, teams and key customers; understands sector/industry needs and economic drivers and provides key strategic customer feedback and insights back to support partners to strengthen solution suite in marketplace. Promote penetration of innovations to differentiate Sealed Air as leader by adding value to our customers business and market sectors.
- Drives Profitability Improvement – Works collaboratively with supporting functions to regularly review and improve regional account profitability and growth strategies to deliver top line revenue and profitable growth for the company; ability to make and influence critical decisions at the local and regional level.
- Leads Sales Planning and Growth – Guides Territory Business Managers/Territory Account Managers to create sales, profitability and growth plans for their assigned territories which will identify how to drive profitable growth with existing and potential customers; utilizes sales data, market analysis, resources, and tools to identify greatest opportunities; holds teams accountable to meeting and exceeding growth plans.
- Manages Administrative Duties – Ensures team leverages all tools to fullest extent and completes key administrative tasks such as pricing, CRM reporting, rebate and promotion coordination, customer relationship and activity reporting, budgeting, travel and expenses.
- Participates in Corporate Programs – Actively executes corporate programs and campaigns, complies with professional quality standards, complies with corporate policies and procedures, and acts in a manner consistent with Sealed Air’s values and ethical standards.
Results driven and works with a sense of urgency. Customer centric with an understanding of strategic priorities across Protective business. Strong leadership, communication and team management skills with the ability to inspire and motivate the team. Distribution managment experience and Data driven decision maker with experience in sales forecasting, pipeline management and performance analysis.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or related field
- Minimum of 5 years professional experience, preferably leading sales teams in a large organization
- Ability to travel up to 60%
- Ability to clearly articulate complex ideas in an easy-to-understand way
- Demonstrated ability to champion change/influence teams, motivate teams, and drive results in a complex organization
- Extensive experience in leading and coaching sales teams and closing business
- Distributor management experience
- Experience with distribution model sales and direct to customer sales
- Excellent relationship building skills
- Superior communication skills, both written and verbal
- Intellectually curious, analytical, strong attention to detail, self-motivated
- Proficient with CRM systems, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Total Target Compensation (Base Commission):
$164,800 - 265,305
The range disclosed complies with applicable state and local pay transparency laws. Offers within this range will be determined by considering relevant factors including education, experience, and internal alignment. This position may also be eligible for annual performance bonuses and other incentive programs. Sealed Air offers a competitive benefits package that includes health, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off, and other benefits designed to promote well-being.
Requisition id: 54897
Relocation: No
Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
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