General Line Product Manager- Composite Decking

Boise Cascade•Dallas, TX

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Boise Cascade has an exciting opening for a General Line Product Manager! This role focuses on purchasing, pricing, and marketing a group of general line products, with a primary focus on composite decking, for warehouse and customer sales. The Product Manager will be responsible for developing and implementing sales strategies, introducing new products, managing promotions, and conducting sales presentations. Key duties include monitoring and maintaining optimal inventory levels, turnover, and margins to ensure branch profitability, and soliciting direct and warehouse sales. This role requires close collaboration with location managers or sales managers to promote assigned and new products, and maintaining direct control over replenishment, pricing, and inventory. The Product Manager will also adjust prices as needed, maintain catalogue price pages, and develop an annual marketing plan that incorporates vendor, division, and product promotions. Maintaining technical product knowledge, determining product market potential, and identifying/evaluating competitive products, new markets, and competitors are crucial. The role involves working closely with division merchandising in supplier selection, maintaining customer relationships, quoting prices, and selling additional products. Assistance to the operations manager in warehousing assigned products and making presentations at various industry events (dealers’ meetings, sales meetings, builder shows) are also part of the responsibilities. A strong commitment to safety, quality, environmental awareness, and continuous process improvement is expected, along with performing other assigned duties.

Requirements

College Degree or equivalent work experience in related job function.
Effective communication skills.
Proficiency in utilizing computer software applications necessary for performing job responsibilities.
Typically more than seven (7) years in building products industry or general line sales.

Responsibilities

Purchase, price, and market a group of general line products (focused on composite decking) for warehouse and customer sales.
Develop and implement sales strategies, new products, and promotions.
Conduct sales presentations on assigned general line products.
Monitor and maintain acceptable inventory levels, turnover, and margins to maximize branch profitability.
Solicit direct and warehouse sales on all general line products.
Work closely with location manager or location sales manager in promotion of assigned and new products.
Maintain direct control over replenishment, pricing and inventory of assigned products.
Change prices as necessary and maintain catalogue price pages.
Develop annual marketing plan incorporating vendor, division and product promotions.
Maintain technical product knowledge.
Determine product market potential.
Identify and evaluate competitive products, new markets, new product opportunities, and competitors.
Work closely with division merchandising in selection of suppliers.
Maintain customer relationships, quote prices, sell additional products.
Assist operations manager in warehousing assigned products.
Make presentations at dealers’ meetings, sales meetings, builder shows, etc.
Demonstrate strong commitment to safety, quality, environmental awareness, and continuous process improvement.
Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.