Account Management Associate, TerraCycle
$50k
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Office located in Aurora, IL
Sustainable waste management company
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Sustainable waste management company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$50k
More information about location
Office located in Aurora, IL
201-500 employees
Company mission
To eliminate the idea of waste.
Role
Who you are
- This position requires high energy, positive entrepreneurs, and fun team players who can collaborate cross-functionally
- Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, communications, sustainability, or related field is preferred
- 1-3 years of professional experience
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Outstanding organizational and time management skills
- Previous client management, brand marketing or agency experience a strong plus
- Strong strategic and creative problem-solving skills
- Agile mindset, flexible and easily adaptable to new challenges
- Ability to juggle multiple responsibilities in a dynamic, rapidly evolving work environment
- Comfortable working as a member of a team as well as pursuing projects independently
- Thrives in working through complex projects and finding creative solutions
What the job involves
- We are seeking an Associate, Account Management for our Commercial segment
- This role entails developing and implementing marketing strategies to promote TerraCycle’s recycling services with third party partners in the North American market, with an emphasis on digital marketing and sales training - to ensure revenue targets and other KPIs are met
- Support the development of strategic marketing, communications, and sustainability recommendations for a portfolio of third party partners and distributors
- Draft client-ready materials including program reports, trainings and sales presentations
- Support the launch and onboarding of new partners and account planning
- Coordinate with internal teams including Marketing, Design and Operations to ensure the timely execution of marketing, social media, website, PR, and operational deliverables
- Manage and monitor program collections and invoicing
- Maintain and update internal and external reports and trackers
- Additional projects and responsibilities as needed to support the business
Our take
TerraCycle is a recycling company focused on waste that normal council systems can't handle. Items like flexible plastics, coffee pods, beauty packaging and cleaning products are often too complex for standard recycling, so they end up in landfill. TerraCycle offers an alternative, with free mail-in programmes funded by brands and paid options like Zero Waste Boxes that let people and businesses collect and send in hard-to-recycle waste.
This is increasingly important as modern packaging becomes more complex and traditional recycling struggles to keep up. TerraCycle creates dedicated routes for these material, often working with brands to take responsibility for their waste. So, by making recycling more accessible and practical, it shows that much of what we thro away can still be reused with the right systems in place.
More recently, the company has focused on growing participation as much as processing. New recycling programmes expand the types of waste it accepts, while initiatives like referral schemes turn customers into advocates. This shows a key shift: scaling recycling depends not just on technology, but on getting more people involved, something TerraCycle is steadily building toward.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2020
$25m
SERIES A
Jan 2020
$6.1m
SEED
Total funding: $32.1m
Company HQ
North Trenton, Trenton, NJ
Leadership
Tom Szaky
(Founder & CEO)Tom is a Board Member at the D'Addario Foundation and at Avigail Adam. Studied Economics at Princeton University.
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