Area Sales Manager

Area Sales Manager

Location: Regional territory-based role in the U.S.

Classification: Exempt

Reports to: General Manager

About the Opportunity

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Key Requirements

• 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.

Why Join

This is an opportunity to step into a high-impact leadership role with direct influence over sales growth, team development, customer relationships, and market success. The right candidate will join a collaborative environment where strong leadership, accountability, and customer focus are valued.

Ideal Candidate

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.