Vice President, Sales - Lumberyard & Builder

Cornerstone Building Brands is a premier exterior building solutions provider serving both the residential and commercial markets across North America. The building products we manufacture are the cornerstone of the communities where people live, work and play -from homes to hospitals, grade schools to grocery stores, manufacturing facilities to municipal buildings and beyond.

Through the core values and consistent behaviors and mindsets embraced by our employees, we have built a culture dedicated to understanding our customers' needs and what matters most to their success. We know that it's our people that make the difference and we are deeply committed to building a workplace and global community where inclusion is not only valued, but prioritized, providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and team members.

The Vice President of Sales is accountable for leading the execution of the Cornerstone Building Brands lumberyard and builder direct channels to optimize and deliver profitable growth. This position is responsible for developing strategies that combine customer-driven long-term thinking with near-term revenue and EBITDA goals. It will lead the development and execution of cross-functional strategies to improve customer engagement, renewal, and advocacy for multiple channels - all based on a deep foundation of customer insights and analytics. Success in this position requires a deep understanding that collaboration is key to growing any business, especially in a complex and competitive industry. This position leads of team of regional sales managers and territory sales managers and reports directly to the Senior Vice President of Sales for the companies Aperture Solutions – US business unit.

This position positively contributes to our company’s culture by:

• Fostering an environment, including ways of working and behaviors, that is congruent with our mission, values, and success model
• Facilitating organization-wide cohesion and keeping all functions aligned with the vision to be a premier company and deliver optimum customer experiences that, in turn, will support and drive revenue and earnings growth
• Ensuring voice of the customer (VoC) and customer data are incorporated as a path to customer centricity
• Redefining organizational metrics that reflect the entire customer journey to deliver experiences that create loyalty, profitable growth, and advocacy

This position positively contributes to the company’s leadership by:

• Actively serving on the sales leadership team and being involved in the highest level of decision making
• Investing significant effort on talent offense and aligning selection and development of sales teams to mindsets and skillsets important to the future of our business
• Ensuring everyone is working against the right priorities, receiving coaching and feedback to promote performance, and experiencing exciting opportunities for growth
• Serving as a role model and champion for employee engagement retention

Primary accountabilities for this position include:

• Growth in lumberyard and builder direct channels through customer knowledge and insight, product mix, customer engagement and service, and strategic pricing and terms:
  • Focusing on sustaining and growing our market share in multiple channels through revenue growth in products, customers, and markets
  • Responsible for shoring up the operational fundamentals within multiple channels that will promote a solid foundation for profitable growth and predictability
  • Collaborating with our Cornerstone Building Brands cross-functional teams together to drive tailored strategies for multiple channels that create mutual value, make us easier to do business with, and help our customers and Cornerstone Building Brands win
  • Coordinating with cross functional teams (e,g. sales, product, marketing, manufacturing, supply chain, etc.) to deliver merchandising excellence and execute projects to create better product assortments and SKU simplification
  • Being a trusted partner with our customers working to growing market share

• Sales planning and effectiveness
  • Combining the most effective demand forecasting techniques with the knowledge and experience of sales managers to increase confidence in the forecasts provided
  • Defining sales effectiveness for channels and implement key performance metrics that enable leaders to assess, train and evaluate sales teams accordingly
  • Developing and driving the execution of our sales effectiveness strategy and programs so that we consistently align to customer expectations and the needs of those working with our customers, build commercial readiness capability, enable outcome-based selling, both for sales leaders and for collaborative selling teams, and ensuring a foundation of reliable data and simplified processes so we make better, faster decisions
  • Conducting win/loss analysis to help the business better understand, anticipate, or respond to changes in customer expectations and the competitive landscape
  • Driving margin improvement through cost takeout initiatives, optimized customer footprint and capacity utilization, enhanced product mix across all categories, and optimal pricing strategies
  • Leverage salesforce to deliver strategies unique to each product category and reporting business unit
  • Track, measure, and assess KPIs that are unique to individual product lines, while influencing critical workstreams with multiple merchant organizations
• Omnichannel presence
  • Tying together strategy and roles, supported by digital applications, tools, processes, and analytics
  • Forming, evaluating, and executing an online strategy that can create lasting values for both Cornerstone Building Brands and the customers we serve

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree in appropriate discipline preferred
• Minimum of 12 years of executive-level sales and/or marketing leadership experience; with at least 5 years working with new construction channels and customers
• Minimum of 8 years of experience leading sales, marketing, business development, or product portfolio teams

Our teams are at the heart of our purpose to positively contribute to the communities where we live, work and play. Full-time* team members receive** medical, dental and vision benefits starting day 1. Other benefits include PTO, paid holidays, FSA, life insurance, LTD, STD, 401k, EAP, discount programs, tuition reimbursement, training, and professional development. You can also join one of our Employee Resource Groups which help support our commitment to providing a diverse and inclusive work environment.

*Full-time is defined as regularly working 30+ hours per week. **Union programs may vary depending on the collective bargaining agreement.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Medical, dental, vision benefits starting day 1 + 401k and PTO. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. (Full-time is defined as regularly working 30+ hours per week.)

Cornerstone Building Brands is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. You can find the Equal Employment Opportunity Poster here. You can also view Your Right to Work Poster here along with This Organizations Participation in E-Verify Poster here. If you'd like to view a copy of the company's affirmative action plan or policy statement, please contact Human Resources at 281-897-7788 or HRCompliance@cornerstone-bb.com. If you have a disability and you believe that you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please contact Human Resources at 281-897-7788 or HRCompliance@cornerstone-bb.com. This email is used exclusively to assist disabled job seekers whose disability prevents them from being able to apply online. Only emails received for this purpose will be returned. Messages left for other purposes, such as following up on an application or technical issues not related to a disability, will not receive a response.

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