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Welcome to PAPACKS Sales GmbH.
We are Europe's largest producer of sustainable molded fiber packaging made from renewable raw materials such as paper or hemp with a focus on the food, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and technical industries.

We are a young, extremely rapidly expanding and growing company with locations in Cologne, Arnstadt/Thuringia, Munich, Prague, the Netherlands and New York/USA.
In 2022 we received 4 Worldstar Awards for our packaging products. We count among our customers many of the world's largest product manufacturers from all industries, aligned with our mission and acting together. 

Your future area of ​​responsibility

• Support of sales in all organizational tasks (back office)
• Coordination of order acceptance and processing and implementation and monitoring of the entire process for a satisfied customer (B2B)
• Order and data entry in the merchandise management system (ERP) from master data maintenance to offers, orders, appointment coordination with production to invoicing.
• However, we expect a cultivated customer contact for the order processing no active sales. If it's up to you, we won't stop you from becoming active here. 

Your profile

• Personal initiative and personal responsibility / positive attitude
• Good organizational skills in day-to-day business
• Confident handling of emails and correspondence in German and English
• Safe handling of PC or Mac and text and spreadsheets (Excel/Word)

• You are reliable, committed, resilient, team-oriented and flexible
• You have a good understanding of the PC and the software you work with every day

We offer you

• Location Cologne in our headquarters, immediately or later
• Monthly fixed salary with potential upwards / permanent position in Cologne
• Success-oriented company and motivated employees
• A job that does something good for the environment with the PAPACKS® mission
• The chance to join our group of companies at a time that will give you far-reaching development opportunities in the company in the future

application Procedures

• Send us your application and documents (CV, photo) by email
• If your profile and application match our requirements, we'll be happy to call you to answer a few questions and invite you to our headquarters to meet us in person.

Your future area of ​​responsibility

• Project and product line controlling
• Participation in the planning, creation and monitoring of forecasts / budgets as well as management reports
• Controlling the foreign companies
• Implementation and further development of cost center, cost unit and contribution margin accounting
• Implementation of further controlling instruments and target-oriented key figure systems
• Support of external accounting and development of interface functions

Your profile

• Successfully completed studies in business administration, industrial engineering or similar.
• If possible relevant professional experience in controlling of a manufacturing company or in an auditing company. But young professionals are also given a chance.
• High IT affinity and very good knowledge of MS Office (especially Excel) and handling ERP systems
• Excellent knowledge in the areas of cost accounting and accounting according to commercial law
• Good German and English knowledge in spoken and written
• Pronounced ability to work in a team, high flexibility and initiative

• PAPACKS is Europe's most innovative production of molded fiber parts made from renewable raw materials to avoid single-use plastic
• We develop and produce environmentally friendly packaging solutions
• We are the strongest expanding company in the industry for sustainable packaging made from molded fiber parts, with current locations in the Netherlands, Thuringia and Cologne, as well as constant expansion of our production facilities.
   
• Der Spiegel - Contribution to the plastic release: https://www.papacks.com/der-spiegel-gruene-illusion/
• The show with the mouse on cast fiber: https://www.papacks.com/die-sendung-mit-der-maus/
• European case study: https://www.papacks.com/european-case-study/
• PAPACK'S GIGAFACTORY 1: https://www.papacks.com/richtfest-in-arnstadt-papacks-gigafactory-1/
• PAPACKS Netherlands: https://www.papacks.com/papacks-netherlands-die-neue-high-tech-produktionsstaette-in-den-niederlanden/
• PAPACKS CZ Prague: https://www.papacks.com/papacks-czech-republic-niederlassung-prag/
• PAPACKS R&D Cologne: https://www.papacks.com/papacks-innovation-hub-2020-think-tank

• Location Cologne / Ossendorf in our headquarters
• Can be used immediately or later
• A success-oriented and motivated environment in which you can continuously develop yourself
• A monthly fixed salary and a permanent position in Cologne
• A job that does something good for the environment with the PAPACKS® mission and you can become part of it
• The chance to join our group of companies at a time that can give you extensive opportunities in the company in the future

• Send us your individual application and documents (curriculum vitae, application photo) by email
• For the first contact, we will arrange a telephone / video interview with you
• In the next step, we would like to get to know you personally and invite you to our headquarters.

Your future area of ​​responsibility

• Support of the sales management in all strategic and organizational tasks
• Joint coordination of the sales team and monitoring of the processes
• Joint coordination of order acceptance, processing and implementation
• Joint coordination of current and new projects with customers
• Order and data acquisition in the merchandise management system
• Creation of customer-specific offers
• Targeted customer support

Your profile

• Experience in group sales as a sales assistant, office clerk
• Initiative and personal responsibility
• Positive attitude
• Good organizational skills and a very conscientious personality
• Pronounced goal and result orientation
• Confident handling of emails and correspondence in German
• Confident handling of text and spreadsheets in a Mac environment and Google Cloud
   
• You are characterized by an independent and structured way of working
• You believe the numbers more than the statements
• You are absolutely reliable
• You have a good perception and analytical thinking
• You are committed, resilient, team-oriented and flexible
• friendly, sympathetic, open and customer-oriented attitude

• PAPACKS is Europe's most innovative production of molded fiber parts made from renewable raw materials to avoid single-use plastic
• We develop and produce environmentally friendly packaging solutions
• We are the strongest expanding company in the industry for sustainable packaging made from molded fiber parts, with current locations in the Netherlands, Thuringia and Cologne, as well as constant expansion of our production facilities.
   
• Der Spiegel - Contribution to the plastic release: https://www.papacks.com/der-spiegel-gruene-illusion/
• The show with the mouse on cast fiber: https://www.papacks.com/die-sendung-mit-der-maus/
• European case study: https://www.papacks.com/european-case-study/
• PAPACK'S GIGAFACTORY 1: https://www.papacks.com/richtfest-in-arnstadt-papacks-gigafactory-1/
• PAPACKS Netherlands: https://www.papacks.com/papacks-netherlands-die-neue-high-tech-produktionsstaette-in-den-niederlanden/
• PAPACKS CZ Prague: https://www.papacks.com/papacks-czech-republic-niederlassung-prag/
• PAPACKS R&D Cologne: https://www.papacks.com/papacks-innovation-hub-2020-think-tank

• Location Cologne / Ossendorf in our headquarters
• Can be used immediately or later
• A success-oriented and motivated environment in which you can continuously develop yourself
• A monthly fixed salary and a permanent position in Cologne
• A job that does something good for the environment with the PAPACKS® mission and you can become part of it
• The chance to join our group of companies at a time that can give you extensive opportunities in the company in the future
• As the right hand of the sales and marketing management, they are at your side in close cooperation with all tasks and questions until you can deal with them independently.

• Send us your individual application and documents (curriculum vitae, application photo) by email
• For the first contact, we will arrange a telephone / video interview with you
• In the next step, we would like to get to know you personally and invite you to our headquarters.

• Development and construction of molded parts based on customer specifications (CAD)
• Creation of technical drawings along with 3D data for customer approval
• Support of the project team in questions of feasibility and manufacturability
• Collaboration in the creation of product-related technical and production-related documentation
• Result-oriented work and good self-assessment of necessary construction times
• Collaboration, testing and monitoring of the design results with customers and subsequent departments such as tool making and production

• Innovative thinking and creation of solution-oriented designs for individual construction requirements
• Successfully completed training or study in a technical subject (technical draftsman / CAD designer, toolmaking, packaging technology) or a comparable training
• Very good CAD design knowledge in SolidWorks
• Very good technical understanding and imagination with applicability to the fiber casting area / molding production
• Independent, responsible, committed and structured way of working

• PAPACKS is Europe's most innovative production of molded fiber parts made from renewable raw materials to avoid single-use plastic
• We develop and produce environmentally friendly packaging solutions
• We are the strongest expanding company in the industry for sustainable packaging made from molded fiber parts, with current locations in the Netherlands, Thuringia and Cologne, as well as constant expansion of our production facilities.
   
• Der Spiegel - Contribution to the plastic release: https://www.papacks.com/der-spiegel-gruene-illusion/
• The show with the mouse on cast fiber: https://www.papacks.com/die-sendung-mit-der-maus/
• European case study: https://www.papacks.com/european-case-study/
• PAPACK'S GIGAFACTORY 1: https://www.papacks.com/richtfest-in-arnstadt-papacks-gigafactory-1/
• PAPACKS Netherlands: https://www.papacks.com/papacks-netherlands-die-neue-high-tech-produktionsstaette-in-den-niederlanden/
• PAPACKS CZ Prague: https://www.papacks.com/papacks-czech-republic-niederlassung-prag/
• PAPACKS R&D Cologne: https://www.papacks.com/papacks-innovation-hub-2020-think-tank

• Location Cologne / Ossendorf in our headquarters
• Can be used immediately or later
• A success-oriented and motivated environment in which you can continuously develop yourself
• A monthly fixed salary and a permanent position in Cologne
• A job that does something good for the environment with the PAPACKS® mission and you can become part of it

• Send us your individual application and documents (curriculum vitae, application photo) by email
• For the first contact, we will arrange a telephone / video interview with you
• In the next step, we would like to get to know you personally and invite you to our headquarters.

Welcome to PAPACKS Sales GmbH,
Europe's most innovative production of molded fiber parts made from renewable raw materials.

Mission & Purpose
A packaging world without plastic - taking responsibility for packaging through the connection to nature.
For us, this means making supply and delivery effective and sustainable, being able to rely on reliably deliverable, innovative and safe products and packaging that are sustainably produced in Germany and Europe. With its current know-how, PAPACKS is a developer, manufacturer and initiator for innovative raw materials, coatings and the production of climate-neutral, sustainable packaging and product solutions that are fully used and reused in the circular economy or processed into secondary raw materials in the existing paper recycling system . Authenticity, fairness and honesty for nature, our partners and our customers always come first for us.

Your future area of ​​responsibility

• You will become the expert for our data sets in our ERP / CRM program.
• You determine the potential according to the template and prepare the data records so that the salespeople can start immediately.
• You are responsible for the reliable post-processing for our sales team
• Preparation of offers for selected customers
• Processing and customer care after completion through to production and delivery of the order
• Coordination and monitoring of order processing and project team after the customer has placed the order
• Monitoring of delivery dates and after sales, invoicing to customers You are responsible for the entire customer process
• Report and report to sales management (forecast planning, quarterly reports, weekly / monthly overview of sales figures)
• Support of existing customers / repeat orders
• Creation and maintenance of customers in our ERP system
• Close cooperation with the sales team and project team
• Central contact person for the customer at eye level
• Establishing and maintaining long-term customer relationships

This is very important to us

You bring your own initiative and your own ideas. Your heart beats for sales and you have an analytical mind.
You also work reliably and solution-oriented, you are close to nature and you are enthusiastic about what we do as a company.

Your profile

• Ideally, experience in sales as a sales assistant
• initiative
• Good organizational skills and a very conscientious personality
• You believe the numbers more than the statements
• Pronounced goal and result orientation
• Very good MS Office / computer skills / Mac environment
• You are characterized by an independent and structured way of working
• You are absolutely reliable
• You have a good perception and analytical thinking
• You are a team player
• friendly, sympathetic, open and customer-oriented attitude

Who we are

• PAPACKS is Europe's most innovative production facility for molded fiber parts made from renewable raw materials for the exchange of single-use plastic
• PAPACKS develops and produces environmentally friendly packaging solutions
• We are the strongest expanding company in the industry for sustainable packaging made from molded fiber parts, with current locations in the Netherlands, Thuringia and Cologne, as well as constant expansion of our production facilities.
• Der Spiegel - Contribution to plastic donation: https://www.papacks.com/der-spiegel-gruene-illusion/
• The show with the mouse on cast fiber: https://www.papacks.com/die-sendung-mit-der-maus/
• European Case Study: https://www.papacks.com/european-case-study/
• PAPACKS GIGAFACTORY 1: https://www.papacks.com/richtfest-in-arnstadt-papacks-gigafactory-1/
• PAPACKS Netherlands: https://www.papacks.com/papacks-netherlands-the-new-high-tech-production-site-in-the-netherlands/
• PAPACKS CZ Prague: https://www.papacks.com/papacks-czech-republic-niederlassung-prag/
• PAPACKS R&D Cologne: https://www.papacks.com/papacks-innovation-hub-2020-think-tank/

We offer you

• Location Cologne / Ossendorf in our headquarters
• Can be used immediately or later
• A success-oriented and motivated environment in which you can continuously develop yourself
• A monthly fixed salary and a permanent position in Cologne
• A very good, team-oriented working atmosphere
• A wide range of additional benefits during your employment with us.

application Procedures

• Send us your individual application and documents (curriculum vitae) by email, a photo of you in your application so that we know who to expect, we would be happy.
• For the first contact, we will arrange a telephone / video interview with you
• In the next step, we would like to get to know you personally and invite you to our headquarters.

Type of position: full-time, fixed-term

PAPACKS is a very innovative company that has developed over the past few years from a startup to a partner on equal terms for customers of all industries and sizes. When it comes to the topics of “sustainability” and “circular economy”, our company “goes ahead” by developing alternative materials, manufacturing processes and products that make the plastic previously used superfluous.

Tasks

• Project implementation in the context of the development of sustainable packaging concepts
• Holistic conception and its implementation in the context of the circular economy (business in cycles), including logistical processes
• Feasibility and manufacturability test in cooperation with technical development and production
• Creation of requirement specifications and project-related documentation
• Responsibility for project controlling
• Coordination of tasks with all involved departments and areas of responsibility internally, at the customer or supplier

Profile

You should have the following qualifications and skills

• Successfully completed training or study in a technical subject (e.g. packaging technology, production technology, product design) or a comparable training
• Very good technical understanding and imagination
• Experience in the implementation of sustainable projects
• Independent, responsible, committed and structured way of working
• very good knowledge of English
• Ideally, you should already have some initial experience with 3D printing techniques and products

Our PAPACKS team faces the new challenges of our customers every day. Our most important partner here is “nature”. With its processes, nature shows us how we can go new ways. Everyone in our team is a specialist for himself, but together "burn"we for our cause "We create alternative products that already make plastic superfluous ". If you are not only talking about sustainability and our "concern" more than addresses you, then we would be happy if you contact us.

Type of position: full-time, permanent position

• Properly manage daily information about contracts between customers
• Monitoring and forwarding of orders
• Tracking of deliveries and compliance with delivery times
• Notification of deliveries
• Monitoring of incoming payments from customers
• Recording of invoices / settlements
• Supporting activity of the sales team in achieving the sales goals
• Independent recognition of problems and their solution
• Supporting the project and sales team in managing the sales process
• Assisting the sales team in organizing trips and managing activities
• General daily administrative activities
• Very good IT skills to effectively carry out day-to-day business
• Good command of English in Word and writing (good communication skills)
• Team player who communicates in a targeted and solution-oriented manner
• Communicative, flexible and motivated
• Structured and reliable way of working

Our offer

• A secure job in a solid company
• A young team with good opportunities for personal development

Job type: full-time