General Sales Manager

General Sales Manager Southport

£36,000 Basic Salary - £54,000 OTE/annum. Capped at £72,000 OTE/Annum.

We are recruiting an experienced General Sales Manager for a Franchised Car Dealership in the Southport area.

Duties in this role include:

• Promote and nurture a customer care culture, delivering care levels consistent with the expectations of the manufacturer and our client.
• Utilise monthly management accounts to monitor and control profitability of the Sales Department and to take any appropriate action to maximise future opportunities.
• Developing sales and marketing plans and budgets to achieve agreed financial, marketing and sales benchmarks.
• Organising, directing and controlling the activities of sales staff to work to pre-arranged plans and budgets.
• Ensuring optimum use of all materials and resources available.
• Provide coaching and training to sales people to improve their job performance, with particular emphasis on: customer satisfaction, prospecting and customer follow-up, sales process, time management and product knowledge.

The ideal candidate will:

• Take pride in their ability to maximise sales and profit opportunities whilst simultaneously delivering exceptional levels of professionalism and customer satisfaction.
• Have experience working as a Sales Manager with brands operating a balanced scorecard.
• Be commercially astute with a drive for growth.
• Have experience coaching a high performing sales team.

What's on offer?

• On target earnings up to £54,000.
• Company Car.
• Overperformance earnings capped at 200% - £72,000 OTE/Annum.
• 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 25 days with length of service.
• Your Birthday off!
• Life Assurance.
• Company Pension Scheme.
• Company Benefits - discounts on high street retailers, Holidays, Cinema, Restaurants and more.
• Staff discounts across all company brands.
• Optional Healthcare Cash Plans.
• Optional Income protection plans.

Who are you applying to?

The Solution Automotive Recruitment has been placing candidates into the UK Motor Trade since 1999. We have a fantastic relationship with all our clients and candidates across the country, many very long standing relationships.

If you are skilled and experienced Automotive candidate, we want to hear from you and rest assured, you'll be dealing with a person, not just a consultant!

Unfortunately due to the volume of applications we get, we can only respond to the candidates who match the criteria set for this vacancy. We will retain your CV on our database and make contact as and when suitable vacancies arise. We will NEVER send your CV anywhere without your permission.