Sales Manager

Fairfield Automotive • Fairfield, CA

13h • Onsite

About The Position

As a Sales Manager with VW of Fairfield, you will not only lead an individual team but contribute to the leadership team at large, ensuring profitability of the organization through your individual contribution and leadership teamwork. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily, as assigned. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The successful candidate will do the following: Forecast goals and objectives for the department and strive to meet them. Prepare and administer an annual operating budget for the new vehicle sales department with assistance from the Dealer and GSM. Attend manager meetings Assist the General Sales Manager in forecasting controllable expense elements for the new-vehicle department. Understand and comply with federal, state, and local regulations that affect new-vehicle sales. Hire, train, motivate, counsel, and monitor the performance of all new-vehicle sales employees. Oversee the efforts of new-vehicle salespeople to enhance the image and customer satisfaction ratings of the dealership. Communicate with new-vehicle salespeople to ensure that dealership policies and procedures are understood and followed. Guide all salespeople in setting their objectives on a short and long-range basis, review team performance

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills are required.
• Must be self-motivated with an ability to manage and organize time and activities.
• Must maintain a professional appearance and follow brand dress code.
• Ability to adapt and support new processes and changes to help in employee and customer satisfaction.
• The self-concept of a professional should be coupled with concern for quality service and customer satisfaction.
• Demonstrate high character and achieve high results.
• Excellent process orientation and extremely accountable for self and sales operations.
• Possess outstanding work ethic.
• Superior customer service skills.
• Maintain effective team member relations.
• Ability to maintain emotional control in stressful situations.
• Able to use/learn to use: dealer DMS system, Microsoft Office Products, Google Suite and other software products as required.
• High School Diploma or equivalent work experience.
• 2-3 years of Sales Management experience
• Must possess and maintain a valid driver’s license.
• Must possess and maintain an acceptable Motor Vehicle Record (MVR).
• Ability to drive manual transmission vehicles.
• Must hold a current State sales license or have the ability to obtain a sales license as required by the State.
• Ability to speak clearly so listeners can understand, as well as the ability to understand the speech of another person.
• Adequate physical ability including sufficient manual dexterity, including the ability to operate computers, tablets, phones, key-boxes, and other office machines to perform the required job functions.
• Visual acuity to see details of objects that are less than a few feet away.
• Requires extended screen time, including reading and entering information on multiple computer screens.
• Must be able to sit or stand in a stationary position for extended periods of time.
• Must be able to climb into and out of cars numerous times each day.
• Requires frequent reaching, bending, repetitive hand movements, twisting, standing, walking, sitting, squatting, pushing, and pulling exerted regularly throughout a regular work shift.
• Requires frequent lifting and carrying items weighing up to 20 pounds unassisted.
• Ability to work in extreme weather conditions in both summer and winter.
• Regular, punctual attendance is required.
• Evening and Saturday work will be required.
• Must maintain a clean, safe working environment at all times.

Nice To Haves

• 1-3 years of Volkswagen experience is preferred.
• Finance experience preferred
• One price experience preferred
• The ability to work independently with limited supervision and the motivation to continually increase product knowledge should be evident.

Responsibilities

• Forecast goals and objectives for the department and strive to meet them.
• Prepare and administer an annual operating budget for the new vehicle sales department with assistance from the Dealer and GSM.
• Attend manager meetings
• Assist the General Sales Manager in forecasting controllable expense elements for the new-vehicle department.
• Understand and comply with federal, state, and local regulations that affect new-vehicle sales.
• Hire, train, motivate, counsel, and monitor the performance of all new-vehicle sales employees.
• Oversee the efforts of new-vehicle salespeople to enhance the image and customer satisfaction ratings of the dealership.
• Communicate with new-vehicle salespeople to ensure that dealership policies and procedures are understood and followed.
• Guide all salespeople in setting their objectives on a short and long-range basis, review team performance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees