General Sales Manager

Competencies

• Ability to effectively hire personnel required to meet departmental and organizational goals
• Ability to manage, including discipline and terminate, personnel as required to meet departmental and organizational goals
• Ability to effectively lead a team to achieve departmental and organizational goals
• Ability to demonstrate proper sales techniques to employees with generally accepted standards and company policy
• Ability to establish professional goals and implement a plan of action to achieve goals
• Ability to budget and understand financial requirements
• Ability to read and comprehend financial statements
• Ability to understand, keep abreast of, and comply with federal, state, and local regulations that impact retail automotive sales
• Computer proficiency
• Good communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate face-to-face, phone, or other means
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to process data and organize it for management analysis
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume
• Ability to understand and follow work rules and procedures
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed, but uninvolved written or oral instruction
• Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, routines, and standard practices
• Ability to interact well with others and be a positive influence on morale of department, dealership, and organization

Supervisory Responsibility

Yes. Responsible for sales personnel and the development thereof through training.

Work Environment/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. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Light Work- lifting no more than 20 pounds at a time and/or frequent lifting or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 pounds.
This position requires a good deal of walking or standing, or this position could involves sitting most of the time with some pushing and pulling of arm or leg controls.
This position requires the ability to push, pull, climb, stoop, kneel, reach, grasp, and walk on a regular basis.
This position involves repetitive motion.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
Work evening, weekend, and holiday work hours as required

Required Education and Experience
Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent in business; and at least two years related experience and/or training in a dealership sales environment; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred Education and Experience
Bachelor's degree (B.S or B.A) or equivalent; and two to four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Prior experience in retail automotive sales is required.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications (Certification/ Licenses/ Registrations)
Valid Driver's License