Sr Area Sales Manager

Owens Corning

$79K — $101K *
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of sales experience in construction or building materials industry preferred.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
  • Strong account ownership mentality and influencing skills.
  • Demonstrated ability in business planning and opportunity management.
  • Ability to work independently in a high-accountability field role.
  • Proficient in translating technical details into customer value.
  • Skilled communicator able to distill complex information into compelling narratives.

Responsibilities

  • Own commercial performance and revenue growth for assigned accounts.
  • Serve as primary contact for account-related matters.
  • Maintain accurate pipeline and revenue forecasting through CRM.
  • Proactively identify revenue risks and create mitigation strategies.
  • Lead account planning with a balance of short-term and long-term strategies.
  • Utilize CRM for data-driven planning and cross-functional alignment.
  • Conduct training on Owens Corning products and streamline customer issue resolutions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive insurance package including medical, dental, and vision.
  • 401k plan with company contributions and matching.
  • Paid time off that increases with professional tenure.
  • Employee Assistance Services for personal support.
  • Stock Purchase Program options available.
Full Job Description
PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The Area Sales Manager (ASM) is responsible for driving profitable growth through assigned accounts by building durable, value-creating commercial partnerships. The ASM owns the commercial relationships for the territory and is accountable for revenue performance, opportunity development, and execution.

Reports to: Regional Sales Leader

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Account Ownership and Revenue Accountability:
  • Own overall commercial performance for assigned accounts, including revenue growth, product mix, and margin.
  • Serve as the primary contact for all account-related matters.
  • Maintain accurate pipeline visibility, opportunity prioritization, forecast discipline through disciplined and consistent CRM utilization.
  • Proactively identify risks to revenue or execution and develop mitigation plans.


Account and Business Planning:
  • Lead account and territory business planning, including opportunity evaluation, prioritization and execution.
  • Develop and execute strategies that balance near-term results with long-term partnership growth.
  • Anticipate upcoming projects and customer needs, planning proactively to optimize productivity and effectiveness.
  • Apply disciplined deal management and channel governance to ensure appropriate value capture.
  • Utilize CRM as the system of record for account plans, opportunities, customer activity, and commercial insights to enable data-driven planning and cross-functional alignment.


Customer Engagement, Training and Value Creation:
  • Coordinate and conduct appropriate training on Owens Corning Door brands, products, and systems.
  • Enable customer teams for independence in resolving field service and/or product concerns.
  • Lead structured account discovery and product solutions based on customer applications and business objectives.
  • Maintain deep knowledge of Owens Corning Doors brands, products, and systems.
  • Operate as a trusted advisor rather than a transactional seller.


Cross Functional Collaboration:
  • Partner with Market and Builder Activation to build down-channel relationships and grow market demand.
  • Communicate activation driven opportunities to wholesale partners, enabling pull-through.
  • Translate customer and market insights into actionable internal feedback.
  • Ensure customer intelligence efforts are aligned to active commercial initiatives and strategic priorities.
  • Ensure customer and opportunity data within CRM is current and aligned to active commercial initiatives and strategic priorities.


JOB REQUIREMENTS

Minimum Qualifications
  • 5+ years of relevant sales experience; building materials or construction industry experience preferred.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.


Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
  • Strong account ownership mindset with ability to influence.
  • Demonstrated acumen in business planning, opportunity management, and commercial judgement.
  • Comfortable operating independently in a field-based role with high accountability.
  • High product aptitude and the ability to translate technical detail into customer value.
  • Clear, concise communicator capable of developing compelling stories from complex information.
  • Proven ability to partner with internal and external business stakeholders.
  • Proactive, growth mindset always striving to continuously improve self, others, and the business.


The base salary range for this position is $79,000 to $101,000. We also offer a substantial benefits package including insurance (medical/dental/vision/life/disability/supplemental offerings), 401k (company contribution regardless of employee participation - plus match), paid time off that considers full professional tenure (vacation, personal floating and standard holidays), Employee Assistance Services, Stock Purchase Program - and more.

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