Sales Head – Engineered Wood
At a glance
Mid-level Sales Leadership role at HireVenture. Bridgewater · full-time · $130,000–$160,000 base.
Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Create sales plans that deliver profitable growth across engineered wood and related technical products
- Grow strategic accounts, win new business, and strengthen relationships with senior customer contacts
- Find new markets, applications, customer groups, and commercial opportunities
- Run forecasting, pipeline, territory planning, proposals, negotiations, and commercial deal work
- Coach four direct reports while coordinating execution with marketing, product, supply chain, and service teams
What you bring
- Strong B2B sales and business development experience in manufacturing, industrial products, chemicals, building materials, or another technical market
- A record of expanding strategic accounts and securing new customers through market-growth strategies
- Hands-on strength in forecasting, pipeline and territory management, commercial planning, proposals, negotiations, and objection handling
- Experience managing, coaching, and developing sales professionals, plus executive-level customer relationship skills
Who this fits
This role suits an experienced industrial sales leader who can combine strategic account growth, market expansion, complex B2B selling, and team leadership. You’ll work from Bridgewater, New Jersey, with flexible home-working days, and business travel may be needed. Visa sponsorship is unavailable.
From the employer
Job Title: Sales Head – Engineered Wood
Location: Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States
Job Type: Full-Time, Direct Hire
Salary: $130,000 – $160,000 per year + potential incentive compensation
Work Setting: Hybrid / Flexible work-from-home days
Schedule: Full-Time
Relocation: To be discussed based on candidate circumstances
About HV Talent Group
At HV Talent Group, we connect exceptional professionals with leading organizations nationwide. We take a relationship-driven approach to recruiting, helping professionals find opportunities that align with their experience, career aspirations, and long-term goals.
About the Opportunity
We are partnering with a leading global manufacturing organization to identify strategic and commercially driven Sales Head – Engineered Wood.
This is an exciting leadership opportunity for a sales professional who knows how to grow strategic accounts, develop new markets, build executive-level customer relationships, and lead high-performing sales teams.
The ideal candidate will bring strong B2B industrial sales experience, commercial leadership capabilities, and preferably experience with engineered wood, adhesives, sealants, coatings, building materials, chemicals, or related technical products.
What You'll Do
- Develop and execute strategic sales plans to drive profitable growth.
- Lead key account strategies and expand relationships with strategic customers.
- Identify new markets, customer segments, applications, trends, and business opportunities.
- Build strong senior-level relationships with customers, partners, and industry organizations.
- Develop and manage the sales and project pipelines.
- Increase business and profitability within key accounts.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of four direct reports.
- Collaborate with marketing, product development, supply chain, and customer service teams.
- Manage sales forecasting, territory and portfolio planning, proposals, negotiations, and commercial opportunities.
- Monitor competitive and market activity to identify opportunities and risks.
- Resolve complex customer and commercial issues.
- Drive strong customer service and cross-functional execution.
- Strong B2B sales and business development experience within manufacturing, industrial products, chemicals, building materials, or a related technical market.
- Experience selling engineered wood, adhesives, sealants, coatings, building products, chemicals, or related solutions is highly preferred.
- Proven track record of growing strategic accounts and winning new business.
- Experience developing and implementing sales and market-expansion strategies.
- Strong sales forecasting, pipeline management, territory management, and commercial planning skills.
- Experience with proposals, deal structuring, negotiations, and objection handling.
- Strong executive-level relationship building and networking skills.
- Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and developing sales professionals.
- Strong understanding of complex B2B buying and selling processes.
- Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Strong analytical and strategic-thinking capabilities.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across sales, marketing, product development, supply chain, and customer service.
- $130,000 – $160,000 annual base salary
- Potential incentive compensation
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off and holidays
- Flexible and hybrid work options
- Annual performance incentives
- Parental and family-support programs
- Professional development and tuition reimbursement
- Career growth opportunities
- Employee investment/share programs
This position offers the opportunity to influence commercial strategy, expand strategic customer relationships, develop new markets, and lead a talented sales organization within an established global manufacturing environment.
You'll have the opportunity to make a measurable impact on revenue growth, customer development, market expansion, and team performance while working cross-functionally with technical and commercial teams.
About HV Talent Group
We believe great recruiting is about more than matching a résumé to a job description. At HV Talent Group, we take the time to understand what professionals are looking for in their next career move and connect them with opportunities where their expertise can make a meaningful impact.
If you're an experienced sales leader ready to take on a strategic commercial leadership opportunity in the engineering materials space, we'd love to connect with you.
Additional Information: This position is based in Bridgewater, New Jersey, with flexible work-from-home days. Business travel may be required as needed. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Security clearance is not required.
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