Strategic Product Manager

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for profitably managing and growing assigned product categories
• Maintain and grow regional and national supplier relationships within those categories
• Identify and evaluate potential suppliers, new markets, new product opportunities, and competitors
• Direct product pricing strategy
• Lead a national design team tasked with technical sales support of EWP
• Coordinate interaction between assigned suppliers and other departments
• Maintain distributor and incentive agreements with selected suppliers that provide protection and position the business for profitable sales
• Initiate and implement product training applicable to your category or categories
• Review performance of assigned suppliers; implement appropriate action plans for improvement when results are below expectations
• Develop annual marketing plan incorporating vendor, division and product promotions
• Willing to travel 25-35% of the time to company, vendor and customer locations across the US and Canada

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field of study
• 10 years of experience in building products industry
• 5 years managing strategic relationships (supplier or customer) at the division/region or enterprise level
• 5 years large account buying and/or selling experience
• Deep and wide experience with EWP, suppliers and markets
• Strong business acumen
• Excellent communicator and proven relationship builder
• Strong analytical abilities to find and utilize vendor, customer and market-related data to identify opportunities and solve problems

Nice to Have

• Prior national product management experience for a manufacturer or distributor
• People management experience

Qualifications

• Employees must pass pre-employment testing for cannabis and its metabolites due to safety-sensitive position designation

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary range of $129,000 - $193,000 based on skills and experience
• Annual merit-increase program
• Annual Incentive Program with a cash bonus targeting 20% of base pay
• Comprehensive employee benefits plan including medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, and life insurance
• Pre-tax Health Savings Account with company contribution
• Voluntary benefits such as Long-Term Care and Employee Assistance Programs
• Company 401k plan with a paid company match and an annual contribution of 5% of base salary
• Three weeks of paid vacation in the first year, plus accrued vacation after six months
• Eleven paid holidays per year totaling 88 holiday hours