General Sales Manager

• Salary: £80,000 OTE plus benefits
• Type of work: Permanent
• Location: Cardiff

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About the role

We're recruiting for a proactive and motivated General Sales Manager to help grow our Cardiff Motorstore/OMODA/JAECOO site.

We offer:

• 33 days of annual leave
• A company car
  
  *Acompetitive basic salary paired with a market-leading commission structure
• Generous employee discounts
• Private healthcare
• A workplace pension

About the role

As a General Sales Manager for Arnold Clark, Europe's largest independently owned car retailer, you'll be committed to growing sales volumes - never compromising on the industry-leading customer service we pride ourselves upon.

This role would be ideal for somebody with a strong personality, boundless enthusiasm for sales and a natural affinity with people. You will shape, train and motivate a successful sales team. If you succeed, you can expect rapid career progression and a fantastic array of staff benefits.

Day-to-day duties

• Making sure that customers are receiving service of the highest quality at all times.
• Training and coaching sales staff, making sure they deliver great service and achieve monthly sales and CSI targets.
• Maintaining fantastic presentation standards within the branch and in digital and online images and video.
• Carrying out regular staff performance reviews and being involved in recruiting staff.
• Making sure that your sales department is running smoothly, effectively and profitably, carefully controlling volume and margin KPIs.

Essential skills

• Previous management experience within a dealership
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Ability to show leadership and direction.
• High levels of accuracy and organisation and the ability to multi-task.
• Confident with managing a team, while finding every opportunity to increase sales volumes.
• Strong motivational and coaching skills, with the focus on bringing the best out of your team.
• The ability to work in a fast-paced retail environment, putting outstanding customer service at the forefront of everything you do.
• A positive, motivated and empathetic approach.
• A full, clean driving licence held for a minimum of one year.

Our Culture

Arnold Clark is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to create an environment where collaboration, unique perspectives and multiple approaches are celebrated. We care about our employees and our communities, we nurture talent and encourage ambition, and we are passionate about people who take pride in their work. Our employees are at the heart of everything we do - diverse in our make-up, united in our goals.

To find out more about Life at Arnold Clark, visit our website.

Employment within the Arnold Clark Group is offered subject to satisfactory reference and disclosure check.

Benefits

Every Arnold Clark employee is entitled to a wide range of benefits, including:

Discount on new and used vehiclesContributory pension schemePrivate medical insuranceLife assurance

• Help & Support
• Careers
• Sell my car
• Book a Service
• Used Cars
• Parts & Accessories

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