Salary: Fully negotiable pending experience, with an uncapped departmental performance-related bonus scheme.
Hours: Guaranteed 5.5-day week. No Sundays required and a half-day off during the week.
Benefits: Company car, enhanced annual leave, staff purchase discounts, and fantastic long-term career development prospects with an expanding family-run motor retail group.
Due to business expansion, our client, a multi-franchise approved car dealership situated in Gloucester, is currently looking to recruit an experienced General Sales Manager to join their dealership.
Reporting to our client's senior management team, as the General Sales Manager, you will be responsible for the overall leadership, strategy, and performance of the dedicated sales team. You will be instrumental in building the brand presence, delivering exceptional customer experiences, and driving profitability and operational excellence. Your key
responsibilities will include:
- Day-to-day management of the team of 6 Sales Executives.
- Leading and motivating the team to meet sales targets on new and used vehicles and finance and insurance products.
- Liaising with customers, both face-to-face and by phone/email.
- Working to market vehicles and services on offer in the dealership and online, liaising with the marketing and digital sales teams to ensure this is accurate and seamless.
- Ensuring customer satisfaction index scores are consistently high.
- Handling any customer complaints efficiently and effectively.
- Maintaining and tracking KPI’s.
- Ensuring all sales completed are FCA compliant.
- 2nd facing when required to close a deal.
- Underwriting part exchanges.
- Ensuring stock is prepared to company standards.
- Ensuring showroom and forecourt presentation is always to a high standard.
- Overall dealership supervision/oversight in the absence of the senior management team or the Group Service Manager.
Given the nature of this role, you will have previous experience at a general sales/sales management level within a medium-to-large franchise-approved automotive dealership. In addition to your previous experience, our client is seeking an individual who displays strong leadership skills with the ability to lead and motivate a large and diverse team, a professional and calm approach with strong management skills to manage internal and external stakeholders, and strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to foresee potential barriers and a strategic mindset with the ability to drive growth and innovation as our client's new brand expands. A UK driving licence with minimal points is also essential.
What's in it for you? For your hard work as a General Sales Manager, our client is offering:
- Starting salary fully negotiable pending experience, with an uncapped departmental performance-related bonus scheme.
- Personal company car.
- 31 days annual leave (any bank holidays worked, you will receive a day off in lieu).
- Full in-house and manufacturer-accredited training.
- A contributory workplace pension scheme.
- Death in service benefits.
- Access to company discounts on new/used vehicles, servicing, and parts.
- Fantastic long-term career development prospects at an expanding family-run motor retail group where you will have a first-hand pivotal stake in driving our clients' business forward.
- Working hours from 8:30am-6:00pm Monday to Friday and 8:30am-5:00pm Saturday. You will have a guaranteed 5.5-day week with no Sundays required and a half-day off during the week.
Contact Sarena Abbott, Automotive Recruitment Specialist at Perfect Placement covering Gloucester and the surrounding region, today to discover more about this fantastic opportunity.
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