District Sales Manager at Cornerstone Building Brands — Madison, WI
Full-timeMadison, WIPosted 2026-07-22Apply on SmartRecruiters
Full job description
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
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Qualifications
Experience with pre-engineered metal buildings
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