District Sales Manager at Cornerstone Building Brands — Champaign, IL

Cornerstone Building Brands has an opportunity for a District Sales Manager to support and grow our Metallic Building Systems brand in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan's upper peninsula. This role requires a sales professional with experience in building materials who thrives on relationship-building, territory growth, and fast-paced customer engagement.

This is a highly visible territory with strong brand recognition, established customer relationships, and significant opportunity to expand share of wallet and drive new business growth.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own & Grow Your Territory: Manage an established territory while identifying opportunities to expand customer relationships and increase market share
• Develop Customer Relationships: Work closely with builders, direct sale opportunities, and new clients to support their business needs
• Drive Sales Growth: Balance maintaining current business with proactive prospecting and new opportunity development
• Sell Industry-Leading Building Systems: Represent metal building systems across commercial, industrial, and agricultural markets
• Support Product & Software Training: Conduct customer education and contractor training programs
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Works effectively and collaboratively with all Cornerstone Building Brands internal departments to ensure customer experience is optimized and efficient
• Provide Responsive Customer Support: Manage a high volume of customer interactions and transactions in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with pre-engineered metal buildings is a must
• Experience with estimating, inside sales, engineering, or project management valued
• Strong relationship-building skills with a commitment to consistent customer follow-up
• Self-starter with the ability to prioritize, manage multiple opportunities, and work independently
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, customer-focused sales environment
• Excellent communication, organization, and time management skills
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation
• Ability to meet with customers regularly throughout the territory
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or related field preferred
• Strong computer proficiency, including experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Ability to learn and adapt to multiple proprietary systems and technologies

• Frequent travel throughout the assigned territory (averaging 50-70%)
• Occasional lifting of product samples and materials may be required
• Combination of office, driving, customer-facing, and job site environments consistent with an outside sales role

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $60,000 - $80,000 + bonus + medical, dental, vision benefits starting day 1 + 401k and PTO. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. (Full-time is defined as regularly working 30+ hours per week.)

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Notice of Recruitment Fraud

We have been made aware of multiple scams whereby unauthorized individuals are using Cornerstone Building Brand's name and logo to solicit potential job-seekers for employment. In some cases, job-seekers are being contacted directly, both by phone and e-mail. In other instances, these unauthorized individuals are placing advertisements for fake positions with both legitimate websites and fabricated ones. These individuals are typi