Area General Manager at Georgia-Pacific LLC

Koch Industries is one of the largest privately owned companies in the world, with a presence in diverse markets. Georgia-Pacific (GP) Packaging, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, is a leader in providing innovative packaging solutions. Our commitment to excellence, innovation, and sustainability drives our business forward.

Your Job

Join our team as an Area General Manager (AGM) and lead our Corrugated Packaging operations in Cleveland, TN and Huntsville, AL. As a key leader, you will have overall responsibility for the success and profitability of the plants you support. This is an exciting opportunity to align team efforts with our vision to deliver high-quality packaging solutions on time while directly leading our operations, sales, and customer service teams across two facilities. Reporting to the VP of Packaging, you will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to drive growth, customer value, and operational excellence.

Location: For this position you must live within 45 minutes of Cleveland, TN or Huntsville, AL. The role requires frequent travel (50%+) to effectively build customer relationships, address operational needs, and ensure quality and timeliness.

Our Team

As a dynamic and experienced leader, you will oversee the overall commercialization and operations as the P&L owner of our corrugated packaging team. This role offers a significant opportunity to impact and lead a team that values winning together. If you are a talented leader eager to drive success and growth in a customer-focused environment, we invite you to apply!

What You Will Do

Area Leadership:

• Champion a people-first and customer-first culture, ensuring team and customer priorities are at the forefront.
• Ensure site operations are being led with a relentless focus on safety, reliability, and quality.
• Oversee commercial activities, including financial budgets, commercial processes, and direct client interactions.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team, including the Director of Operations, Sales Manager, Customer Service Manager and their teams.
• Foster a culture focused on performance excellence and customer satisfaction in both quality and service.
• Implement new technologies to enhance manufacturing processes and quality control.
• Define the commercial and operational vision, strategy, and organizational direction.
  
  
  

Business Strategy and Growth:

• Lead strategic initiatives aligned with a market-focused vision to foster innovation and sustainable growth.
• Identify and capitalize on opportunities for profitable growth.
• Coordinate with operations and other departments to achieve business goals.
  
  
  

Relationship Building and Collaboration:

• Strengthen existing customer relationships and pursue new, profitable opportunities.
• Enhance collaboration by building internal relationships, key to success in this position.
• Cultivate a high-performance culture centered on teamwork and shared success.
  
  
  

Financial Management:

• Manage financial budgets (P&L) across the two sites and improve business profitability.
• Analyze market trends, pricing, forecasting, and budgeting using financial acumen.
  
  
  

Compliance, Safety, and Continuous Improvement:

• Ensure compliance with governmental regulations, industry standards, and GP best practices.
• Promote a culture of safety throughout the organization.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency, product quality, and customer satisfaction.
  
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in manufacturing, with at least 5 years in a managerial role in sales or operations
• Proven track record in talent development and team growth
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline
  
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• Proficiency in managing profit and loss (P&L) statements.
• Experience within the corrugated or related packaging industry.
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities with a strategic mindset and success in driving organizational change.
  
  
  

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

Georgia-Pacific LLC is a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day –to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.