Product Manager Metalworking

Agilix Solutions is looking for Metalworking Product Manager. This person will be responsible for the sales and vendor relationships of all metal working products. This role will report to the Director of Industrial Supply and Safety.

Responsibilities

· Daily outbound activity via phone, email, text, video conferencing or other methods to reach these customers with a targeted message promoting specific products or capabilities.

· Make sales calls with account managers or in accounts that are unassigned to provide solutions in the metal working category.

· Support the Agilix sales team with product conversions, competitive quotes, and vendor relationships.

· Attend vendor training courses to stay up to date on industry trends and products.

· Collaborate with Outside Sales to identify the target customer base, establish relationships, and cultivate opportunities.

· Strategize with product vendors for targeted customer conversions.

· Developing pricing models for metalworking products based on market research and competitor analysis.

· Monitor and maintain proper inventory levels, work with vendors on returns, and set up / manage guarantee trial orders.

· Utilize and maintain company CRM (customer relationship management) tool for all activities.

· Ability and desire to market and profitably sell the metal working lines available to Agilix.

Requirements

· Ability to develop a strategic plan with tactical activities and targets based on Analytics

· Ability to administer and implement marketing, promotional programs, and product launches

· Ability to work as a team member executing as part of an overall company strategy for reaching new and existing customers and creating demand for targeted products and services

· Excellent communication skills and ability to clearly articulate highly technical products and services in a remote environment.

· Strong presentation skills in group and individual situations

· Computer skills (i.e. Windows, Microsoft Office Suite, PDF, PowerPoint)

· Creative thinker with the ability to create original concepts to train, service, and sell to internal and external customers

· Understanding of data and how it can be used to analyze business opportunities.

· Collaborative cross functional team skills to work with Marketing, Outside Account Managers, CSR Team, and Operations

· 5 years of industry experience, industrial distribution experience considered a plus

· Ability to travel up to 50% if needed.

Company-Provided Benefits

· Medical Insurance

· Dental Insurance

· Vision Insurance

· Health Savings Account

· 401K (Company match contributions and annual profit-sharing plan)

· Life Insurance

· Long-Term Disability

· Short-Term Disability

· Employee Assistance Program

Voluntary Benefits

· Legal Services

· Critical Illness

· Life Insurance

· Dependent Care/FSA

COVID-19 Precautions/Procedures

· Virtual and In-person (socially distanced) interview process

· Personal protective equipment provided if desired.

· COVID-19 Guidelines in place

· Virtual meetings encouraged

About Agilix Solutions

Formed in 2021 by the merger of St. Louis-based French Gerleman and Memphis-based IAC Supply Solutions, Agilix Solutions ranks among Electrical Wholesaling Magazine’s 50 largest distributors. With a rich history dating back 100 years, we deliver meaningful solutions to our customers in the industrial, commercial and construction markets. Agilix Solutions has longstanding partnerships with top manufacturers of automation, electrical, datacom, power transmission, safety, industrial supply, lighting and solar solutions.

Be part of a team of experts dedicated to the success of our customers. We’re committed to doing whatever it takes to deliver meaningful solutions. With 360 employees serving our customers from 13 locations across the Midwest and Midsouth regions, we offer our employees the support of a large team committed to connecting customers with products and expertise tailored to whatever challenges they’re facing. And as a family-owned business, we pair that unparalleled access to resources with the familiarity and friendliness of a local distributor.

We understand your values because we share and lead with those same values ourselves. With Agilix Solutions, you’ll join a team of exceptional people committed to unparalleled performance when it matters most, for us and our customers.

Agilix Solutions Diversity & Inclusion Statement

Agilix Solutions values the unique contributions and perspectives of our team members. We are committed to a policy of providing equal employment opportunities for training, compensation, transfer, promotion and other aspects of employment for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation or veteran status.

Every effort is made to ensure that our hiring, salary administration, promotion and transfer are based solely on job requirements, job performance and job-related criteria.

Our policies and practices relating to compensation, benefits, transfer, retention, termination, training, self-development opportunities, as well as social and recreational programs - are administered without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status or other basis prohibited by law.

Agilix Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Compensation package:

• Bonus pay

Experience level:

• 5 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Memphis, TN 38133: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Salary Requirements

Experience:

• Industrial: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $82,700 - $105,000