Build your Career with BlueLinx as a Product Sales Manager! - Lumber / Panel Trader!
Are you a specialist in building products with a passion for sales and relationship building? BlueLinx is growing, and we’re looking for a Product Sales Manager to join our dynamic team. This role offers the opportunity to advance your career while working alongside sales management and growth-minded customers. If you are confident in your product and analytical knowledge and comfortable working across the organization, with customers and suppliers, we want to hear from you!
Why BlueLinx?
- Career Growth: Opportunity to develop and advance your career in a leading wholesale distributor.
- Comprehensive Benefits:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription
- 401(k) with company match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Holiday pay, and paid time off (PTO)
- Life Insurance
- Dynamic Environment: Work with a team that values integrity, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
Primary Duties:
- Establish strong relationships with clients that will provide opportunities to grow sales and solidify BlueLinx’s partnership for long term profitability.
- Identify new sales opportunities with new and existing customers for assigned product(s).
- Improves profitability, product penetration, product mix, and inventory turn with all customers for assigned products.
- Ensures effective product performance and promotes good customer and supplier relations.
- Assists all customers with sales and technical support for assigned products. Also, resolving all customer service issues related to assigned products.
- Develops sales solutions and competitive pricing strategies for assigned products.
- Communicates value proposition to customers. Propose sales solutions to customers and reevaluate solutions.
- Promotes existing products, as well as presenting new product opportunities to drive sales and profits.
- Analyze and monitor sales and profitability; develop pricing models and profitability strategies for the region.
- Develops and builds relationships with internal business units including branches, replenishment/supply chain team, product management, and Branch Sales and Operations teams.
What We’re Looking For:
- 4+ years’ experience with a bachelor’s degree - equivalent industry experience preferred.
- Self-motivated, high energy, persistent, and sense of urgency
- Proven track record of sales success – ability to drive growth as well as maintain a large book of business.
- Demonstrated success in problem solving - must be creative and innovative.
- Ability to organize, prioritize and work cross functionally.
- Superior Interpersonal skills - proficient in both written and verbal communications
- Working knowledge of assigned product line, customer support/service, and inventory management.
- Possesses well developed consultative selling skills, and confident in negotiation win/win outcomes.
- Negotiates prices, provides market updates, prospects, and evaluates sales funnels.
- Experienced in Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Our Values: With every decision and action, we put people first, keep the future in mind, and work as a team toward shared progress:
• Customer Centric • Respect • Collaboration • Integrity • Grit
About Us:
BlueLinx is one of America’s largest distributors of building products, with over 70,000 branded and private-label SKUs. Headquartered in Marietta, Georgia, we have over 2,000 associates and distribute our comprehensive range of structural and specialty products to approximately 15,000 national, regional, and local dealers, as well as specialty distributors, national home centers, industrial, and manufactured housing customers.