Reporting to the Head of Sales – Household and Industrial Packaging, you will be responsible for procuring feedstock (Post-Industrial packaging) and building the customer base in Victoria. Your flexibility, and agility to negotiate from the strategic, to the day to day will be key to your success in this diverse sales role.

With a proven aptitude in sales and operational planning, you will work closely with the site to coordinate and manage the process with new vendors, communicate levels of demand vs supply with operations and implement robust plans to maintain quality of incoming feedstock (Post-Industrial packaging).

Key responsibilities will be to:

• Liaise and coordinate with site operations to ensure demand is delivered
• Identify and cultivate market opportunities to develop, grow and convert to a strong sales pipeline
• Manage end to end process including commercial discussions and preparation of sales proposals
• Provide monthly reports on procurement gains and pipeline activity
• Develop, maintain and leverage strong customer relationships with existing and potential customers to ensure solid supply lines of raw material in the market
• Exceeding sales and margin budgets through effective sales and business development

Your skills and experience

• Demonstrated commitment to safety in the workplace and working “Toward Zero Harm”
• Experienced in plastic packaging sales and account management
• Strong financial acumen, financial performance to budget targets
• Demonstrated capability to engage at all levels coupled with high level of influencing and negotiation abilities
• Strong strategic selling and customer solution focus
• Proven experience in Technical Sales and Solution Selling as a key account management or Business Development Manager
• Personal presence and credibility that builds stakeholder engagement

Your experience and skills include:

• Service focused personality.
• Proven customer service skills with sophisticated communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Computer literate with strong abilities in Microsoft Office.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to connect with others easily, as well as proven problem solving abilities.
• Highly responsible and reliable, demonstrating initiative as required.
• Ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced, team-based environment.

What you will be doing:

• Consistently offer professional, friendly and engaging service while corresponding with guests via various methods in a timely manner.
• Book, enter and update room reservation requests & rooming lists, as well as build & maintain group blocks, using the relevant systems to ensure a flawless check-in & check-out process.
• Ensure accurate payment information is received and inputted in a timely manner.
• Maximize revenue by upselling guestrooms and recommending hotel facilities.
• Assist with balancing inventory/room types.
• Liaise and maintain strong working relationships with Sales, Food & Beverage, Front Office & other departments as required.
• Assist guests regarding hotel facilities in an informative and helpful way.
• Due to the requirements of the role needs to be performed onsite, no working from home options available. 

Your Career

As a Palo Alto Networks Specialist Cortex Systems Engineer, a Next-Gen AI-powered security operations platform, you will be the expert for the broader Cortex portfolio within our offerings. 

Your portfolio includes Cortex XSIAM (Extended Security Intelligence and Automation Management), Cortex XDR (Extended Detection and Response platform across endpoints, network and cloud), Cortex XSOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, Response & Threat Intel Management), and Cortex Xpanse (Attack Surface Management).

The Cortex Specialist Systems Engineer is the interface between business and technology. Working closely both internally - with product and engineering to share feedback from the field, and externally - with our prospects and customers to understand their business needs and to design technical solutions that take the best advantage of the Cortex platform. With your colleagues, you will displace competing technologies and build market share - most importantly, help your client sleep at night as our product integrates to build secure digital transactions.

Your Impact

• Drive complex deals in the pre-sale stage, alongside sales engineers and sales reps
• Present to customers as our expert at all levels in the customer hierarchy from technician to manager
• Support the technical field sales engineer on POCs (proof of concept) – assist with the pre-sales process by answering technical questions, conducting POC evaluations, and working with engineering to bridge any gaps
• Work closely with product and engineering to debug and correct challenges encountered during POCs
• Training of the field sales engineers to present new features, product roadmap, new improvements, and sprint summary
• Create new demo scenarios and use cases
• Discuss complex platform architectures to prospects
• Respond effectively to RFIs/RFPs while serving as the main technical point of contact

About the Opportunity

As the face of TAL, you will offer TAL’s life insurance products directly to customers, providing general advice and recommendations to support their purchasing decisions and convert to a successful and compliant sale.

Key responsibilities include:

• Educate clients about TAL’s insurance products, to help the, gain a full understanding of their options.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships though inbound and outbound queries.
• Achieve realistic monthly revenue and compliance targets i.e., 15 calls per day on average and 2:1 commitment to purchase to purchase per day.
• Accountable for managing accurate documentation and generation of quotes.
• Collaborate effectively across departments to ensure a positive sales and application experience.