BERT OGDEN HARLINGEN KIA SALES MANAGER Job Details Job Type Full-time HARLINGEN, TX • SALES Description POSITION TITLE: Sales Manager DEPARTMENT: Sales REPORTS TO: General Sales Manager Full Time PURPOSE: The New-Vehicle Sales Manager is responsible for assisting the General Sales Manager in planning, organizing and controlling the activities of the New-Vehicle Sales department and in measuring the performance of the employees in the department.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
- Forecast goals and objectives for the department and strive to meet them.
- Strive for harmony and teamwork with all other departments.
- Prepare and administer an annual operating budget for the new vehicle sales department with assistance from the Dealer and GSM.
- Attend managers’ meetings as requested.
- Assist the General Sales Manager in forecasting controllable expense elements for the new-vehicle department.
- Understand, keep abreast of, 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.
- Direct and schedule the activities of all department 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.
- Monitor salespersons’ payroll records.
- Set sales and gross objectives for new-vehicle salespeople.
- Guide all salespeople in setting their objectives on a shorthand and long-range basis.
- Review all new-vehicle salespersons’ performance as shown on the Daily Sales Operating Control.
- Assist in developing programs of improvement for those salespeople who are failing to reach their objectives.
- Recommend for dismissal any salesperson failing to meet company objectives.
- Conduct daily and weekly sales training meetings as directed by the General Sales Manager.
- Work with salespeople on programs that will increase the new-car gross and increase F&I penetration.
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DUTIES:
Must conduct periodic self-inspection for hazard assessment within the Ford sales department and recommend and document action needed and action taken.
