General Manager - Automotive

Job description / Role

General Manager - Automotive - Belgium

The General Manager ensures the profitability of the Belgium branch by overseeing the various departments which include variable operations (sales & financing), fixed operations (service & parts), and the accounting & administration. Planning, motivating and coordinating the branch’s management through leadership and solid business practices. Developing & implementing business strategy and strengthening the brand portfolio.

Core Responsibilities:
- Develops a business plan and sales strategy for the branch in relation to the relevant market that will ensure the attainment of the branch sales objective.
- Hiring all management positions, completing performance evaluations regularly and developing short and long-term goals for each department manager (includes administrative, sales, parts, and service departments).
- Planning and developing short and long-term goals and objectives annually, and submitting time projections to corporate management for approval.
- Effectively communicating with the Branch Manager on a daily & weekly basis to review departmental forecasts and ensure consistency with annual projections.
- Paying close attention to daily operations, recommending and creating improved courses of action where necessary.
- Explaining the policies and procedures of the branch office to all employees and following up with employees to ensure that these issues are understood and followed.
- Ensures adherence to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes and ensures that they are communicated and implemented within the team.
- Overseeing the monthly financial statement to ensure it is complete, accurate and submitted on time to the management/ owners.
- Control expenses to meet budget guidelines.
- Work directly with Belgium Finance Manager to ensure accurate financial compensation, rewards and reporting submitted to Headquarters’ Finance.
- Coordinating regular meetings with the managers of each department to ensure their profitability and efficiency.
- Overseeing the hiring and training of all department managers.
- Maintaining an enthusiastic attitude to build positive employee attitudes and morale.
- Overseeing and maintaining compensation plans for all employees.
- Creating cost-effective advertising programs and merchandising strategies for the branch office.
- Focusing on any customer complaints that department managers are unable to rectify and taking the necessary steps to resolve these complaints.

Requirements

- Knowledge in Belgium’s taxation system and Government’s offices.
- Sets performance goals in the beginning of the year for the direct reports and ensures that the goals are achieved during the course of the year
- Identifies the training and development requirements for self and team
- Insure that all employees meet or exceed all activity standards for prospecting calls, appointments, presentations, proposals and closes.
- Sets examples for the branch in areas of personal and professional character, commitment, organizational and selling skills.
- Conducts regular coaching and counselling to build motivation and selling skills.
- Maintain contact with all clients in the market area to ensure high levels of client satisfaction.
- Demonstrate the ability to interact and cooperate with all company employees.
- Willingness to travel and work in a global team of professionals.

About the Company

“Great vision without great people is irrelevant, a Company’s growth potential is limited by its ability to attract enough of the right people” - James C. Collins in Good to Great.

As talent shortages grow more acute and online platforms are giving employees new mobility while allowing competitors to poach top performers more freely, managing people become a much higher strategic priority.

HR need to help increase revenue and productivity while lowering talent and HR costs to ensure profit margins don\'t get eroded. Companies need to rethink people strategies, HR processes, organizational structures, workplace flexibility and human capital deployment.

To win the war for talent in the new era, deploying the same strategies is a sure way of losing, at JC & Partners we help Companies find total HR solutions that improves the bottom line while our diverse team remove cultural misunderstandings and inefficiencies so you can grow and expand your business more effectively by having the right talent for your business.