National Account Manager - Building Products Manufacturer - Base Salary to 115k/year - Los Angeles, CA - Allsearch Recruiting

National Account Manager - Building Products Manufacturer - Base Salary to 115k/year - Los Angeles, CA

• Our client is a specialty building products manufacturer and is looking to expand their National Sales team in the western region of the U.S. They have been in business since 1948 providing solutions to building challenges that architects, designers, building owners, facility managers, and contractors face every day. If you want to work in an inspiring atmosphere and collaborate with customers and colleagues to solve challenges, they are the right place for you.

• The National Account Manager will expand the company’s portfolio of products within the retail industry, including influencing and managing relationships with existing and new retail specifiers, corporate decision makers and other Architectural & Design groups or firms. The ideal candidate for this position will reside in one of the following states, to make an impact on the revenue growth of the region: Washington, Montana, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, California, Alaska, Arizona, New Mexico, Hawaii, and including Canada – British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for identifying and growing sales opportunities within existing and new national accounts
• Track design choices on all national account projects to sell as many “basis of design (BOD)” solutions on every project; strive to achieve 2 or more solutions and product mix per opportunity.
• Foster and build relationships with leading A&D firms and end-users to promote company product portfolio in order to capture specifications and projects.
• Cultivate profitable strategic relationships with key end-user decision makers (Director or VP level) within the headquarters of multi-location companies.
• Leverages competitive selling advantages throughout the selling process.
• Determine customer engagement strategy and develop national account customer sales initiatives to penetrate existing and new national accounts to achieve sales targets at optimal profit margins.
• Work with Operations and Sales Director to prepare, present and negotiate national contracts (RFPs) with national accounts.
• Forecast monthly and yearly national account opportunity projections.
• Collect and share market and business insight on competitors, trends, product opportunities and other strategic information that will help meet business goals and delivers observations to Market Research, New Product Delivery, Marketing and Sales Operations.
• Utilize CRM (Salesforce) and other data analytic sources to identify, qualify, and convert new sales opportunities.
• Track a minimum of 20 opportunities and that can be influenced in the design stages within the next 12 months.
• Partner with Operations to handle disputes/conflicts from customers, general contractors, and national account contacts within the region.
• Prepares and submits periodic reports on measurements of activities, sales volume, expenses, etc., to the Sales Director, National Accounts.
• 50% travel as required to maintain effectiveness. Ensure travel plans in order to be most cost effective for the company.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferred.
• Minimum 7+ years of consultative specification sales experience.
• Ability and experience selling commercial interior and exterior building products.
• Knowledge in the construction industry and multi-segment markets a plus.
• Knowledge of and demonstrated success selling to national end-user/ builders/architects/designers preferred.
• Experience with client prospecting, forecasting, and business development.
• Ability to communicate orally and in writing within all levels of internal and external customers.
• Ability to work from a home office with ready access to a major airport.
• Demonstrate ability to establish and maintain strategic customer relationships.
• Intimate understanding of project delivery process within the building products and construction industries.

Compensation:

• Base salary up to 115k/year
• Generous incentive plan
• Auto allowance and mileage
• Heath Benefits
• 401k
• PTO