Vice President & General Manager - Beverage

We are global, we are impacting the lives of millions every day, we are making a difference!
At Amcor we are inspired to change the packaging industry and are taking on the aspirational challenge to make all our products recyclable or reusable by 2025. Through our products and global footprint, we are in a unique position to truly make a difference in the packaging space. Our products impact the lives of millions of people across the globe every day from food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home- and personal-care, and other essential products. Amcor is a thriving S&P 500 organisation listed both on the NYSE (AMCR) and ASX (AMC) with US$13 billion in sales. We have a proud history dating back to the 1860's and come a long way from a single paper mill based in Melbourne to becoming the global leading packaging company. Today, Amcor is an international organisation empowering its 50,000 employees in over 40 countries and across 250 sites.
Will you be next to join our journey towards a more sustainable future? At Amcor we are always looking for talented and passionate individuals who are motivated to make a difference. Working at Amcor means you will have a unique opportunity to be a part of an organisation that is committed to providing sustainable packaging solutions. To find out more about our commitment to sustainability and about Amcor, visit www.amcor.com.
Job Description
The VP/GM, Beverage, will report to the President, Amcor Rigid Packaging and will be a key member of the leadership team. S/he will have full responsibility for the $1.88 Billion beverage packaging solutions business.
S/he will work with the Senior Executive team to fully understand the company's long and short-term business objectives

• Responsibilities include "top-to-top" business relationships and value-creation with key customers and suppliers.
• The development of business strategies that will drive transformational growth, via organic and inorganic actions.
• The development and execution of effective operational strategies including Safety, Lean, and overall operational excellence.
• The VP/GM will prioritize technology and innovation for custom rigid plastics solutions in the beverage business unit.
• The VP/GM will have responsibility over key business/commercial segments within North America and 15 dedicated plant locations.

While management skills, operational excellence and sales expertise are requirements, such traits will not override qualities of effective leadership. A leader who brings excellent communication style and is willing to partner at the strategic level with his/her executive peers (across all functions) is critical. The new executive must be able to drive and manage high growth successfully; build coalitions and strong relationships with other functional and business executives, while encouraging his/her direct and indirect reports to do the same with their peers and others in the organization.
The successful candidate will also be a champion of change, as well as, a collaborative, relationship-driven leader who can foster an open and transparent environment where personal accountability and excellence are valued. What is best for the business is always part of the decision-making process and value chain.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Have full accountability for strategic, financial, operational, and people aspects of the ARP Beverage Business Unit. Manage profit and loss for the business. Develop, implement, direct and evaluate the business's fiscal function and performance.
• Plan, analyze, and implement growth strategies and programs in the organization.
• Establish and maintain relationships with industry influencers, clients, customers, suppliers, and key strategic partners.
• Accountable for achieving sales growth and profit targets and growing market shares.
• With a strong emphasis on operational excellence and continuous improvement, drive safe and cost-effective performance across the manufacturing network while leveraging our scale and footprint while keenly focused on optimizing utilization, quality, sustainability and service delivery.
• Drive integration and synergies across market spaces and business lines and deliver year-over-year cost productivity improvement.
• Provide timely and accurate analysis of budgets, financial reports and financial trends.
• Develop and execute organic growth dimension of business strategy. Analyze organic growth opportunities using appropriate methods (e.g., market research) and develop growth initiatives which are consistent with the organization's strategic plans.
• Collaborate with product development and supply chain teams to define future product development needs and manufacturing requirements in terms of capacity, quality and service.
• Manage operational assets to ensure, among other things, the correct mix of assets, asset upgrades, and capital for new product introduction.
• Manage annual planning cycle to develop required inputs to the budgeting process.
• Allocate resources effectively to achieve strategic, business and financial objectives.
• In collaboration with Human Resources, assess the leadership and organizational capabilities necessary to achieve annual and longer-term objectives including talent development and succession planning, rigorous performance management, organizational renewal, and employee engagement.
• Identify, develop, and implement effective solutions to business, industry and market challenges.

Candidate Attributes
The selected candidate will possess genuine leadership skills and true executive presence with strong communication abilities that are necessary to influence, lead change and effectively inspire confidence at the organizational and personal levels.
S/he will be a natural, positive leader who can engender respect among his/her peers and direct and indirect reports by leading with strength, being a visionary, recognizing success and fostering collaboration. S/he will have experience leading and managing a team in a world- class dynamic organization and be an expert at implementing sales growth and strategic market opportunities. The ideal candidate will also be one who has a hunger to learn, a passion to act and a proven track record supported by verifiable results.

• Executive Presence - As this is a senior leadership role, the successful candidate will have an inherent executive presence as well as a history of progressively increasing roles leading, managing and mentoring teams.
• Personable and Inspirational - Be able to relate well to all people. Skilled at getting individuals, teams, and organizations to perform at a higher level and embrace change. The ability to develop a followership./
• Positive and Passionate - Must be positive, passionate, and ambitious. His/her energy should be infectious.
• Strategic and Tactical Balance - Must be tactical and strategic in managing human capital resources by playing to associates' strengths, while neutralizing their weaknesses.
• Culture Focused - Must be able to effectively promote the Amcor culture, which includes customer value, effective teaming, high performance results, and leadership efficiency in all aspects.
• Honesty & Integrity - Consistently acts in line with a clear and visible set of values and beliefs. Is known for his/her candor and is seen as reliable, trustworthy and ethical.
• Team Building - Success in building and empowering diverse, high-impact teams. Recognizes that people are critical to success and has experience cultivating and developing high caliber talent. Delegates appropriately to increase one's own capacity and effectiveness. Cultivates a culture of open discussion and involves team members in decisions yet is not afraid to hold people accountable and make tough, but necessary, decisions.
• Courage - Is collaborative to a point and decisive at a point. The courage to tackle problems proactively and evaluate and deploy people appropriately. Comfortably confronts challenges without hesitation and is not afraid to challenge the status quo.

LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS
Mission critical leadership characteristics for this position.
Making Complex Decisions

• Can simplify, then solve even the toughest and most complex of problems; great at gleaning meaning from whatever data is available; is a quick study of the new and different; adds personal wisdom and experience to come to the best conclusion and solution, given the situation; uses multiple problem-solving tools and techniques.

Keeping on Point

• Can quickly separate the mission-critical from the nice to dos and the trivial; quickly senses what's the next most useful thing to work on; focuses on the critical few tasks that really add value and puts aside or delays the rest.

Courage

• Readily tackles tough assignments; faces difficult issues and supports others who do the same; Provides direct and actionable feedback; is willing to champion an idea or position despite or political risk.

Being Organizationally Savvy

• Maneuvers well to get things done; maze bright; knows where to go to get what he/she needs; politically aware and agile; knows the right thing to do; presents views and arguments well.

Communicating Effectively

• Writes and presents effectively; adjusts to fit the audience and the message; strongly gets a message across.

Relating Skills

• Warm, friendly, and interpersonally agile; easy to approach and talk to; relates well to all kinds of people; makes a pleasant first impression and builds solid relationships.

Acting with Honor and Character

• Is a person of high character; is consistent and acts in line with a clear and visible set of values and beliefs; deals and talks straight; walks his/her talk; is direct and truthful but at the same time can keep confidences.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience: Has successfully run a $1 Billion+ business with full P&L; possess a strong proven P&L experience and successful track record in leading a full operational business unit in manufacturing, with multiple locations.
• Strategic Thinker: Strategic & transformational leadership capability with experience in executing organic business development/M&A growth plans; strong business acumen; able to frame sales and operations initiatives and expertise in a business context; able to think, act and speak strategically. Comfortable with ambiguity and constant change, able to methodically work through complex problems, set priorities and execute on commitments.
• Strategic Agility: W2P (willingness to pay), insightful understanding of customers'/consumers' needs/desires; with a view towards exceptional customer service, successful experience in effectively building customer relationships by establishing trust, credibility and adding value quickly.
• Growth-Oriented: Strong commercial skills and exceptional customer focus - establishes sustainable relationships that grow mutual value; obtains then translates deep market insights into powerful value propositions and positions DP to be THE packaging partner of choice. Track record of high growth - passionate about winning new business, can bring innovation to commercial success, engages team/creates excitement about growing
• Entrepreneurial Drive: Energy, creativity; an ability to distill ideas into actions to drive profitable growth.
• Leadership Agility: Able to manage a large, geographically dispersed organization
• World Class Talent: Able to build an organization "ahead of the curve" - talent at all levels capable of growth; eye for talent and ability to develop leaders; has a passion for creating healthy organizations, and helping drive a strong, winning culture and high- performance culture. A strong coach and mentor. Can effectively lead/manage hunters and farmers; can balance compassion and toughness in coaching others and leading through change. Has a positive attitude and unwavering commitment to delivering business results.
• Critical Thinker: Architect and leader of complex corporate initiatives; effectively simplifies complex situations
• Operational Excellence: Drive a safe operating culture; drive Operations/plant management; strive for continuous improvement.

EDUCATION
Undergraduate degree from a respected college / university in business or related field is required.
A Master's degree in Business Administration or technical discipline, while not required, will further differentiate the ideal candidate.
Our Expectations
We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

• Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
• Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor's quality, service, and innovation
• Our investors benefit from Amcor's consistent growth and superior returns
• The environment is better off because of Amcor's leadership and products

Equal Opportunity Employer/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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