Vice President/General Manager - Product

Cornerstone Building Brands is a leading manufacturer of exterior building products for residential and low-rise non-residential buildings in North America. The VP/General Manager of Product will be responsible for the overall business performance, strategy, and product leadership across multiple product categories, focusing on growth and profitability.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement strategic plans for all product categories to identify growth opportunities, market trends, and competitive positioning
• Own full P&L responsibilities across vinyl siding, F&R, MAT product categories
• Drive revenue growth and overall financial performance
• Deliver EBITDA targets in line with plan expectations and develop and implement plans for continued YOY improvement
• Drive lifecycle management: pricing, innovation, rationalization and differentiation of products, services and go-to-market strategies
• Lead all product planning and execution activities to ensure alignment with business priorities
• Drive cross-functional alignment with marketing, sales, and operations
• Ensure each product category has clearly defined priorities, roadmaps, and KPIs
• Ensure processes and systems are in place to enhance product development efficiency and decision-making
• Fostering an environment, including ways of working and behaviors, that is congruent with our mission and values
• Facilitating organization-wide cohesion and keeping all functions aligned with the vision to be a premier company and deliver optimum customer experiences that, in turn, will support and drive revenue and earnings growth
• Actively serving on the leadership team and being involved in the highest level of decision making
• Actively develop and partner with cross functional operating group teams
• Ensuring everyone is working against the right priorities, receiving coaching and feedback to promote performance, and experiencing exciting opportunities for growth
• Serving as a role model and champion for employee engagement retention
• Growth aligned to our strategy through customer knowledge and insight, product mix, customer engagement and service, and strategic pricing and terms
• Focusing on sustaining and growing our market share through revenue growth in products, customers, and markets
• Responsible for shoring up the operational fundamentals that will promote a solid foundation for profitable growth and predictability
• Collaborating with our Cornerstone Building Brands cross-functional teams together to drive tailored strategies that create mutual value, make us easier to do business with, and help our customers and Cornerstone Building Brands win
• Coordinating with cross functional teams (e,g. sales, product, marketing, manufacturing, supply chain, etc.) to deliver excellence and execute projects to create better product assortments and SKU simplification
• Being a trusted partner with our customers working to growing market share
• Conducting win/loss analysis to help the business better understand, anticipate, or respond to changes in customer expectations and the competitive landscape
• Driving margin improvement through cost takeout initiatives, optimized customer footprint and capacity utilization, enhanced product mix across all categories, and optimal pricing strategies
• Leverage the salesforce to deliver strategies unique to each product category and reporting business unit
• Track, measure, and assess KPIs that are unique to individual product lines, while influencing critical workstreams with multiple merchant organizations

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree in appropriate discipline preferred
• Prior experience with full P&L responsibility in a multi-product business and matrixed organization
• Strong background in product management and strategy
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive organizational alignment
• Strong leadership, communication, and decision-making skills