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If you’re passionate about building teams, driving growth, and delivering impactful results, we’d love to hear from you!\n\nWhat You'll Do:\nResponsible for aligning local market strategy with corporate strategy to maximize long-term profit and return on working capital.\nManage all aspects of logistics in assigned district.\nManages and develops relationships with key customers in assigned districts and determines the strategy for value proposition and product penetration.\nEnsures all customer commitments are met, and best practices are implemented for safety, safety certification, material handling, inventory management, and delivery. \nOversee sales strategy and work hand in hand with operations (local, regional, and corporate) to ensure communication is strong and expectations in regard to quality, safety, and the BlueLinx brand expectations are appropriately defined and met. \nResponsible for managing sales representatives to improve profitability, product penetration, and product mix with all customers. \nConducts joint sales calls with sales representatives to identify opportunities and maintain/build customer relationships (including sales representative coaching/mentoring). \nManage inventory levels (including slow, inactive, liquidation/large buys and damaged inventory flow) and align local product mix with local market dynamics and product strategy.\nLeads team; selects/hires; develops objectives; coaches and evaluates performance. \nEnsure direct reports obtain applicable training and development opportunities to enhance performance, development, and contributions to the company. 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