Profitability Manager – Labels and Packaging Platform

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $68.5k - $106.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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RR Donnelley

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

RR Donnelley is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions that elevate engagement across the complete customer journey. The company offers the industry’s most trusted portfolio of creative execution and world-wide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings the expertise, execution, and scale designed to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact.

📋 Description

• Drive business profitability through pricing execution, contract escalation, and margin recovery initiatives • Conduct portfolio reviews to identify, triage, and improve profitability for margin-challenged accounts • Correct underperforming portfolios and remediate accounts affected by market inflation • Monitor raw material costs, supply chain fluctuations, and operational inflation • Execute price pass-through updates and enforce contract escalation terms, CPI adjustments, and material cost-sharing clauses • Develop and maintain dynamic pricing models and acceptable margin thresholds • Manage post-implementation commercial activities rather than pre-sales, deal structuring, or initial pricing strategy • Translate complex cost structures into post-production pricing adjustments and recovery plans • Support contract renewals and price increase renegotiations by articulating value propositions • Maintain and expand analytical models and dashboards tracking price realization, pass-through compliance, and margin expansion • Monitor contract expiration dates and historical price adjustments to trigger renegotiation workflows • Track account profitability trends and highlight high-risk accounts • Provide weekly/monthly executive summaries on recovered margin, pending price increases, and negative-margin exposure • Serve as the commercial point of contact for Operations and Finance • Facilitate reviews with Sales leadership to identify margin recovery opportunities and resolve account profitability gaps • Collaborate with Business Unit leadership on strategic margin improvement initiatives

🎯 Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required • Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, or a related field preferred • Minimum 3–5 years of progressive experience in pricing management, commercial operations, business analysis, or sales operations • Proven understanding of internal company workflows and manufacturing/packaging cost drivers • Experience directly supporting or working within a sales environment • Ability to leverage, expand, and maintain analytical models • Ability to aggregate data and build actionable reporting dashboards in Excel or Google suite • Strong understanding of sales workflows, client contracting terms, price elasticity, and customer negotiation dynamics • Ability to influence sales behavior, hold team members accountable, and drive change across operational and commercial groups • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills • Confidence presenting recommendations directly to senior business leadership • Proactive, creative problem-solving ability • Ability to translate complex operational cost data into clear commercial action steps • Successful completion of a pre-employment background and drug screen • Must refrain from using AI tools during interviews

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage • Paid time off • Disability insurance • 401(k) with company match • Life insurance • Voluntary supplemental insurance coverages • Parental leave • Adoption assistance • Tuition assistance • Employer/partner discounts • Potential participation in a commission or incentive program