Territory Manager, Pipe & Fittings (Pacific NW Region: WA, OR & AK)

Westlake offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment. We work together to enhance peoples' lives through our products and presence in the communities in which we operate.​ Westlake Pipe & Fittings, a Westlake company (NYSE:WLK), is the second-largest polyvinyl chloride pipe and fittings manufacturer in North America. Westlake Pipe & Fittings supplies gasketed, solvent weld and restrained joint pipes and a wide range of fittings for a diverse list of markets including municipal water and sewer, plumbing, water well, pool and spa, and agricultural and turf irrigation. Westlake Pipe & Fittings is an industry leader in product development with Certa-Lok® spline-lock technology and product systems that are focused on building A Better Foundation™ . To learn more, visit the website at WestlakePipe.com   SUMMARY   The Territory Manager achieves increased sales revenue and profitability within the Washington, Oregon and Alaska market . The Territory Manager will achieve sales goals by effectively selling and communicating the company’s products and/or related services to existing and prospective customers. A major focus will be on the pull through sales process by creating demand at the specifier, owner, and contractor levels.

May include, but are not limited to, the following:   Comply with all company policies and procedures  Meet or exceed sales goals and objectives set by management   Create demand by educating on the features and benefits of Certa-Lok restrained joint PVC Product system to engineers, owners, municipalities, contractors, and wholesale distribution.   Perform professional presentations or demonstrations of company’s products and services  Establish, develop and maintain business relationships with distributors, engineers, municipalities, contractors, and other key contacts within the assigned geographic territory.      Build and maintain ongoing awareness of industry products and services, competitor activities and other research that can be shared with management   Evaluate marketing data by utilizing sales management software tools to maximize sales efficiency and effectiveness  Actively manage travel schedule to cover assigned territory in a time-efficient manner. Travel will be roughly 50% within sales territory.   Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications and establishing professional networks. Focus should especially be paid to directional drilling, pipe bursting, and other areas where restrained pipe is needed.  Resolve customer complaints by identifying problems and expediting solutions  Provide management weekly market activity/results and monthly territory analyses   Work closely with distribution in order to forecast monthly sales volume  Coordinate sales efforts with sales management, accounting, logistics, engineering, manufacturing and customer service groups  Analyze the territory/market’s potential and determine the value of existing and prospective customers to the organization and value/volume model  Plan and organize sales strategy by maximizing the Return on Time Investment for assigned territory  Participate in local, regional and national trade shows   Ensure that databases are current and updated with accurate customer information  Implement pricing policies within market segments as directed by Regional Sales Manager  Coordinate major bid strategy and maintain bid calendar  Provide pricing, product availability and order status information to territory accounts  Execute the timely preparation of all sales reports, expense reports and assigned projects  Effectively manage a Travel and Entertainment Budget to maximize return on investment. rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.  EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS   Bachelor’s