Area Sales Manager

Location: Regional territory-based role in the U.S.
Classification: Exempt
Reports to: General Manager

A growing building products organization is seeking an experienced Area Sales Manager to lead, develop, and support a regional sales team. This role is ideal for a hands-on sales leader who enjoys building strong customer relationships, coaching sales talent, driving accountability, and creating market growth.

• →Lead, manage, and develop sales team members within the assigned market.
• →Build and maintain strong customer and industry relationships.
• →Drive sales performance through scorecards, metrics, and accountability.
• →Lead daily customer-focused meetings to review issues, opportunities, and service performance.
• →Partner with HR and leadership to recruit and develop sales talent.
• →Attend customer and industry events focused on relationship building, product training, and process improvement.
• →Collaborate with internal teams and customers to resolve issues and deliver solutions.
• →Oversee showroom displays to ensure functionality, appearance, and customer impact.
• →Support profitability goals by managing budgets, costs, and market performance.

• 5+ years of sales leadership experience.
• Experience in building materials, construction products, or a related industry preferred.
• Strong leadership, decision-making, and performance management skills.
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Proven ability to drive results and hold teams accountable.
• Strong relationship-building and conflict-resolution skills.
• Knowledge of order entry, sales, and operations management systems.
• Ability to work across office, warehouse, fabrication, showroom, and construction site environments.
• Ability to travel as needed.

The ideal candidate is a credible, results-driven sales leader with experience managing teams, developing customer relationships, improving performance, and growing revenue in a building products or related industry.