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Sales Manager

    Highlights

    The Sales Manager is responsible for leading the sales team in setting and executing strategic sales plans, recruiting and training sales representatives, analyzing sales data and managing the sales budget to achieve overall sales goals for the company. Through our initiatives we encourage and incentivize our employees to aid fellow employees in need and to better serve our communities and the people we directly influence.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationDuncan, SC
    IndustryWholesale Trade/Import-Export
    Company Size2,000 to 2,499 employees
    Year Founded1987
    Websitehttp://www.uslumber.com

    Description

    We are currently looking for a Sales Manager in our U.S. LUMBER Greenville, SC Branch to join our VALUES based organization. In this role you will focus on overall activities of the sales representatives to continually and simultaneously serve the customers within an assigned market. The Sales Manager is responsible for leading the sales team in setting and executing strategic sales plans, recruiting and training sales representatives, analyzing sales data and managing the sales budget to achieve overall sales goals for the company.

    Responsibilities:

    • Foster an environment that embodies US Lumbers culture and values
    • Responsible for leading the sales team in meeting and exceeding revenue and margin targets
    • Create, communicate and execute effective sales strategies that focus aggressively on growth and long-term partnership
    • Identify opportunities for new business
    • Proactively engage customers within a market with a focus on long-term, strategic growth
    • Actively build and grow vendor relationships
    • Identify knowledge and skill gaps within your team and develop appropriate action plans to grow your people
    • Ensure that world class customer service is provided throughout the market
    • Work with Branch Manager to implement effective price strategies and price book management
    • Continuously recruiting top talent
    • Effectively communicate company vision and directives to your team

    Qualifications:

    • 4+ years of building materials distribution experience preferred
    • Prior sales experience required
    • Prior management experience required
    • Bachelor's Degree: previous experience will be considered
    • Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
    • Proficiency in COGNOS and Agility software preferred

    Specialty Building Products is the leading distributor of specialty building products in North America. SBP operates under the brands U.S. LUMBER, Alexandria Moulding, REEB Millwork, DW Distribution, Millwork Sales and Amerhart. We serve 45 states in the U.S. and 8 provinces in Canada from over 40 locations. Here at SBP we are a people first organization, our team is built upon strong culture and standards for success. We value your perspective and want to learn more about you with a commitment to laying the foundation for you to build a successful career with us. Join us and EVOLVE your future at Specialty Building Products!

    Being a part of SBP you will be eligible for many benefits. Full-Time benefits would include:

    • Medical, Dental, Vision given on the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
    • Company-Paid Life Insurance & Disability
    • 401(k) with Company Match
    • Company-Paid Time Off
    • Paid Holidays & Floating Holidays
    • PLUS ADDITIONAL PERKS!

    Serving our communities:

    We are also committed to our core value of "using our influence to have a uniquely positive impact" on the people that we touch. Through our initiatives we encourage and incentivize our employees to aid fellow employees in need and to better serve our communities and the people we directly influence.

    We are proud to have the best team in our industry. We have experienced a tremendous amount of growth as a company. This growth has served not only our customer base but has also provided significant opportunities for advancement amongst our employees.

    Please be careful about scam recruitment. Specialty Building Products would never send any candidate a check or instructions to deposit funds in a bank account in connection with the interview or hiring process.

    Specialty Building Products is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy of Specialty Building Products not to discriminate in hiring and employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, age, military status, genetic information, or other protected class status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

    Benefits

    401K, Flexible Spending Accounts, Retirement / Pension Plans, Life Insurance

    About Company

    U.S. LUMBER is the leading distributor of specialty building materials in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic United States. U.S. LUMBER was created by a merger of Atlantic Trading Company (est. 1986 in Birmingham, AL) and Bestwood Forest Products (est. 1986 in Greenville, SC). U.S. LUMBER is headquartered today in Atlanta, GA. We operate distribution branches in Atlanta, Greenville, Raleigh, Nashville, Jacksonville, Central Florida, Mobile, Baltimore and Boston, in which we stock the largest and broadest inventory of specialty products in the industry.

    CORE VALUES AND PURPOSE:

    As individuals, U.S. LUMBER employees have nine core values that we live by. They didn't come from consultants, nor are they aspirational. They reflect what we actually believe and how we actually behave. They are WHO we are. 

    • Be Consistently Responsive to Customers and Suppliers.
    • Always Do the Right Thing - Even When it is Hard.
    • Don't Finish Fresh. Give Everything You Have Every Day.
    • Live with Intentionality. Make Sure Your Progress is on a Well Conceived Path.
    • Give Credit Where Credit is Due. Most of the Credit is Not Due to You.
    • Use Your Influence to Have a Uniquely Positive Impact on People.
    • Develop People by Serving the Whole Person.
    • Live out Idealism. Don't Settle.
    • Lead with Influence; not Position, Title or Tenure.

    U.S. LUMBER believes that by maintaining a culture based on these Core Values, we are building a high performance organization that can actually make a difference in our world one person at a time.

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