Director, Centralized Estimating & Quoting
POSITION OVERVIEW
The Director, Centralized Estimating & Quoting is responsible for building and leading a centralized function that provides estimating and quoting support across Construction Resources’ business units and product categories.
This role will establish standardized processes, improve quote speed and accuracy, and enhance the overall effectiveness of the sales organization. The Director will lead a high-performing team focused on delivering timely, high-quality quotes to support field sales teams, who in turn set expectations with end customers.
This position requires a strong sense of urgency, deep understanding of construction and finished goods, and the ability to leverage systems, automation, and emerging technologies to drive scalable solutions.
This role is critical to enabling scalable growth by transforming how Construction Resources delivers quoting and estimating support—driving speed, accuracy, and consistency across a decentralized sales organization. The Director will partner closely with Sales leadership on pricing strategy, margin integrity, and quote governance to ensure alignment with business objectives.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Centralized Quoting & Estimating Leadership
Build, lead, and scale a centralized quoting and estimating function supporting all markets and categories
Oversee the development of standardized quoting processes to drive consistency, efficiency, and accuracy
Ensure timely and accurate delivery of estimates and quotes aligned with sales and customer expectations
Establish and continuously improve service levels for quote turnaround and quality
Sales Support & Customer Responsiveness
Technology & Process Optimization
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Team Leadership & Development
Performance Management & Reporting
SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE LOOKS LIKE:
EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS
Basic Qualifications
8+ years of relevant experience in construction, building materials, distribution, or a related environment
3+ years of leadership experience
Experience in construction, building materials, distribution, or construction support environments
Strong understanding of estimating, quoting, bidding, or order management processes
Demonstrated ability to build and standardize processes in a multi-location organization
Strong technical aptitude with experience evaluating or implementing systems and tools
Ability to operate with urgency in a fast-paced, customer-driven environment
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build relationships across field leadership
Proven ability to build, standardize, and scale processes or functions in a fast-paced, evolving environment
Experience supporting multi-location or multi-category businesses with complex product offerings
Preferred Qualifications
SKILLS & COMPETENCIES
Customer Focus & Responsiveness: Demonstrates a strong sense of urgency and accountability in delivering timely, high-quality support to sales teams, recognizing their role in meeting and managing end-customer expectations
Operational Excellence & Process Discipline: Ability to design, standardize, and continuously improve processes that drive efficiency, consistency, and scalability across a centralized quoting function
Technical & Systems Acumen: Strong aptitude for evaluating and implementing systems, tools, and emerging technologies—including AI—to enhance quoting accuracy, speed, and overall performance
Strategic Thinking & Execution: Ability to translate high-level business objectives into executable strategies that improve quoting operations, support revenue growth, and enhance sales effectiveness
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Builds strong, trusted relationships across Sales, Operations, Sourcing, and field leadership to ensure alignment, responsiveness, and successful execution
Leadership & Team Development: Proven ability to build, develop, and scale high-performing teams while fostering a culture of accountability, responsiveness, and collaboration
Data-Driven Decision Making: Leverages data, metrics, and performance insights to identify trends, drive continuous improvement, and inform operational and strategic decisions
Change Management & Adoption: Ability to drive adoption of new processes, tools, and ways of working across decentralized field teams and leadership groups
WORK LOCATION
Atlanta, GA (on-site / office-based). Less than 20% travel; primarily for business alignment, leadership meetings, and team development
BENEFITS
Medical
Dental
Vision
Employer Paid Basic Employee Life and AD&D Insurance
Employer Paid Long Term Disability
Flexible Spending Accounts
Voluntary Short-Term Disability
Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
Voluntary Accident Insurance
Voluntary Critical Illness Insurance
EEO
At Construction Resources, our people are the driving force behind everything we do. Construction Resources is an equal opportunity employer that aspires to be the best in the business by building an associate experience that celebrates growth, development, and purpose.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit for extended periods of time, stand, walk, climb stairs, use hands to finger, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
POSITION TYPE/EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK
This is a full-time position that requires overtime as business needs dictate.
OTHER DUTIES
Please note: this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.
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