Sr Manager, Manufacturer and Distributor Content

Your Title:  Sr Manager, Manufacturer and Distributor Content

Job Location: San Diego, CA-Hybrid

Our Department: Content & Supply Chain 

Are you ready to be part of a team that's transforming the way the world works? At Trimble, we’re delivering innovative products and services that bridge the physical and digital worlds. Are you excited to help revolutionize industries with cutting-edge technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity, and data analytics to drive improvements in productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability?

What You Will Do

Join us as the Manager of Manufacturer and Distributor Relationships and play a pivotal role in transforming how content is managed across Trimble’s innovative products and platforms. You’ll lead a dynamic team, ensuring our partners—manufacturers and distributors—are set up for success at every stage of the pre-construction workflow, from estimating and design through procurement and beyond. In this role, you’ll drive the quality of product data, including master product information, pricing, e-commerce data, and 3D models, while supporting distributors in seamlessly integrating this content into their systems to enable digital procurement. If you're passionate about shaping the future of construction technology, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

• Develop a global strategy to synchronize content partnerships across regions

• Manage key distributor relationships, including Ferguson, in their implementation of content data into their ERP to enable pricing, quoting, and procurement capabilities

• Manage key manufacturer relationships to ensure our manufacturer partners content is properly represented and of the highest quality across master product information, availability, pricing, ecommerce, geometry, and others

• Establishing processes with each partner for receiving content on a timely basis, meeting with the partner personnel to report on data quality and exposure

• Evaluating customer needs across personas to influence future roadmap

• Manufacturer and Distributor Content Consent to enable workflows (Estimating, Design, ERP, Procurement, Etc.)

• Auditing data to make sure its properly represented throughout the supply chain

• Identifying strategic opportunities to growth the manufacturer and distributor business

• Communicate the value of Trimble MEP’s products and eco-systems and Trimble product data and and to be able to 

• Recognize potential sales opportunities and arrange introductory meetings involving appropriate Trimble Sales team representatives

• Partner with cross-functional teams to identify and implement product, data and process improvements across manufacturer and distributor

• Provide assistance on issue escalations and ensure there has been proper handoff and resolution to the satisfaction of the manufacturer and Trimble

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring

• 5+ years experience in a sales, account management, customer success, or customer-facing product or product marketing function 

• 5+ years of experience as a people manager, with demonstrated ability to performance manage and delegate tasks

• Experience working at a building part manufacturer or with building part manufacturers (e.g. at a distributor in a manufacturer facing role)

• Demonstrated ability to manage technical and/or customer escalations from start to resolution

Trimble’s Inclusiveness Commitment

We believe in celebrating our differences. That is why our diversity is our strength. To us, that means actively participating in opportunities to be inclusive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have guided our current success while also moving our desire to improve. We actively seek to add members to our community who represent our customers and the places we live and work.

We have programs in place to make sure our people are seen, heard, and welcomed and most importantly that they know they belong, no matter who they are or where they are coming from.