Strategic Accounts Manager, Single Family Builders

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too.

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As a Strategic Accounts Manager, Single Family Builders for our Therma-Tru, Larson, and Fypon brands, you will drive growth and profit for the business through the management of all interfaces with the key accounts of our National Builders. 

The ideal candidate will have experience managing national accounts in building materials and developing business strategies, experience building relationships with builder accounts, and the ability to create professional high-quality PowerPoint presentations.

Location: This position is eligible for a remote schedule. Candidates must live within the Eastern half of the United States, ideally within driving distance of a major airport.

Travel Requirements: Candidates must be available to travel up to 50%

What you will be doing:

The bullet points below reflect roughly 80% of your job. We are a fast-paced company, you may be pulled in a variety of different directions with tasks added or changed.

• Direct account responsibility for National Builder locations in the eastern half of United States
• Implement National Builder Account strategy and communicating to all appropriate internal and external stakeholders, including national builders, field sales organization, and local trade partners.
• Coordinate with other National Account Managers and the field sales organization to manage our strategy and its successful implementation at the national and local level of the National Builder Account. 
• Work with Vice Presidents of Sales, National Accounts Managers, Regional Sales Managers, Field Sales Team, Marketing Managers and Financial Team to develop pricing and programs appropriate for maintaining and growing our profitable position with National Accounts in the Regional Market.
• Maximize the growth and profitability of the National Builder Program. 
• Lead all contract negotiations with National Builder Accounts both internally and with the corporate management of the National Builder Accounts, working with resources to support contract endeavors including legal, marketing, and senior management in the contract negotiation process.
• Develop and implement account plans for each key customer within the builder segment and communicating the elements of the plans to all-appropriate internal personnel and external customers.
• Represent Therma-Tru, Fypon, Larson and Fiberon at a regional and national level in appropriate national builder associations and conferences. 
• Comfortable having challenging conversations with customers; examples may include price improvement or specific requirements of a program.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3-5 years experience managing national accounts in building products
• Familiarity with market forces affecting business and builders
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs, specifically PowerPoint, Word, and Excel
• Experience with account management and planning
• Knowledgeable in generating and negotiating pull-thru programs, managing and growing builder relationships and experience with multi-step distribution process
• Proven track record of growing sales and driving results

Nice to Have:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred 
• Proficient in using a CRM (i.e. HubSpot)

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $105,000 USD - $125,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN

Equal Employment Opportunity:

FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. To support our efforts, we invite you to voluntarily share your gender, ethnicity, and veteran status. This information is confidential and helps us ensure an inclusive hiring process and improve our diversity initiatives.

Reasonable Accommodations:

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