Imagine when
You are a vital member of our growth-minded, industry-leading, innovative, brand-driven, global employee-owned company. You are challenged to grow, expected to challenge others, are part of something much bigger than yourself, and leave an indelible legacy through the people your life has impacted.
You have the opportunity to help lead all aspects of National Nail’s retail sales operations, developing and implementing strategies to drive revenue growth and profitability.
Your assignment
The Vice President (VP) of Retail Sales is responsible for all aspects of the health and growth of our retail business in-store and online. They build, maintain and leverage strong relationships with our retail partners, with a focus on the SVP and MVP level.
The VP leads and develop an internal sales and operations team to achieve goals and deliver best-in-class results and support to our retail partners in-store and online. They collaborate and partner cross-functionally with marketing, product development, supply chain, operations and other departments as needed to ensure cohesive strategies and seamless achievement of projects and goals. They leverage National Nail brands and products as well as home centers private label products.
Essential duties:
- Sales Strategy and Planning: Developing and executing comprehensive retail sales strategies, setting revenue targets, and creating sales forecasts.
- Team Leadership: Lead, develop and motivate the retail sales teams, providing guidance, training, and performance management to ensure team success
- Customer Performance Oversight: Overseeing all aspects of retail sales operations including e-commerce, point of sale analysis, forecasting, and promotional activity.
- Market Analysis: Conduct in-store and desktop research and analysis to identify emerging trends, competitive pricing and new product activities, and potential growth opportunities.
- Relationship Management: Build, maintain and leverage strong relationships with key retail and ecommerce partners, and stakeholders with a focus on the SVP and MVP levels.
- Performance Monitoring: Track and analyze sales data, preparing reports, and presenting findings to executive leadership.
- Budget Management: Develop and manage the retail sales department budget, ensuring efficient resource allocation, cost control, and strategic spending that drives results.
- Collaboration: Working closely with marketing, product development, supply chain, and other departments to align sales strategies with overall business objectives. Fosters a collaborative culture built on accountability, recognition, and professional growth.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required skills:
- Ability to build, lead, and develop teams.
- Strong consultative selling skills.
- Strong business acumen and negotiating skills.
- Ability to solve complex problems.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven success with private label brands.
- Strong understanding of the business, products, systems, and people.
Success criteria:
- Deep and effective relationships with SVP and MVP level partners at Home Depot, Lowe's, and Menards.
- Achieve sales and margin plan.
- Grow sales and margin in-store and online with National Nail and private label products.
- Strong performing team within company culture expectations.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience leading the retail channel.
- 5+ years of experience with Home Depot and/or Lowe's. Known by SVP and MVP levels.
- Proven success building, developing, and leading teams.
- Success growing sales and margin in the retail channel.
- Success creating and achieving strategies for building and growing e-commerce.
- Experience with house/private label brands.
- Be an outstanding person and teammate, elevating those around you.
- Align with our purpose, 8 character traits, and cornerstones.
About us
We are an employee-owned company and a proud part of the American building materials industry for nearly 75 years. We have a storied history of innovation, which many say is in our DNA. We agree. From product to brand, to sourcing to customer-centric solutions, we constantly ask the “what, why and how” questions that many are afraid to ask.
Our core brands of CAMO, PRO-FIT, and STINGER are the “asked for brands” in their respective segments and can be found at the finest names in the LBM, Roofing, Home Center, Distribution and STAFDA channels of the building industry and more recently, through our E-Commerce presence.
Our brand users are the hardworking folks who build things with their hands, and just like us, are business owners. They build our homes, our decks, install our roofs, and depend on our brands to support them in delivering a job well done.
Our company's reason for existing
Whether supporting our customers, suppliers, employee-owners and their families or the communities in which we live and work, our purpose is simple; inspire whoever we engage with to help them become better. Better people, families, businesses, and ultimately leave better the communities in which we live. We get this is a moonshot reason for existing. Yet it is one we are committed to.
Our culture is characterized as
- Servant focused.
- Founded on Four Cornerstones, 8 character traits, and a simple operating philosophy of Serve • Better • Value • Fun.
- High standard, embraced by a dedicated team of employee-owners who enjoy the fruits of hard work while having a “bit of fun” along the way.
- Growth-minded, driving intentional investments in developing our people, our customers, and our communities.
- Innovative.
So, if this is an assignment, culture, brands, and industry you desire to explore further, contact us. Your new adventure awaits.
