Automotive Sales Manager

DARCARS CDJR of Silver Spring is looking for Automotive Sales Manager

Large Automotive Dealership Group seeking a Automotive Sales Manager
. This position is responsible for assisting the Dealer in planning, organizing, and controlling the sales of the New & Used Sales Department. The Sales Manager also measures the performance of the employees in the department and provides assistance to them.

For this role, you'll need:

• Automotive sales experience is required
• 2 Years of experience working in sales management
• Experience managing groups and teams
• Mentality that no job is too small
• Ability to communicate effectively to multiple levels of the organization

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits Plan including 401k
• Paid Holidays & PTO
• Employee discounts on vehicle purchases, parts and service repairs
• Internal career advancement opportunities
• Opportunities to join our community service initiatives

In this role, you'll:

• Forecast goals and objectives for the department and strive to meet them.
• Strive for harmony and teamwork with all other depts.
• Attend managers’ meetings.
• Assist the Dealer in forecasting controllable expense elements for the new and used vehicle depts.
• Understand, keep abreast of, and comply with federal, state, and local regulations that affect new & used vehicles sales.
• Hire, train, motivate, counsel, and monitor the performance of new and used sales employees.
• Report all vehicles sold.
  
  Directs New and Used salespeople to enhance the image and customer satisfaction ratings of the dealership.
• Communicate with and mentor new and used salespeople to ensure that dealership policies and procedures are understood and followed.
• Set sales and gross objectives for salespeople.
• Guide all salespeople in setting their objectives on a short and long-range basis.
• Review all sales people’s performance.
• Develop programs of improvement for those sales people who are failing to reach their objectives.
• Will supervise the salespeople to ensure that they follow their owners on a planned contact basis.
• Will evaluate each quarter gross performance of the salespeople.
• Will conduct a weekly sales meeting.
• She/he will keep accurate sales records, both daily and monthly.
• Will insist that the salespeople follow the company’s prospecting program to obtain maximum results.
• Comply with manufacturer’s training for self and salespeople.
• Recommend to the Dealer the inventory to be carried by color, model, and equipment, based on a variety of customer and market analyses.
• Help salespeople close deals when necessary.
• Confirm salespeople’s appointments are in Elead
• Maintain standards for the delivery of vehicles to customers.

Other Responsibilities:

• Will coordinate the function of the salespeople with the Service Dept., Parts Dept., and business office.
• Assist Dealer in the development of advertising campaigns and other promotions.

We are an equal opportunity employer & drug-free workplace. Offers of employment are contingent upon successfully passing background screening (incl. criminal background check, review of consumer & motor vehicle records, verification of SSN). Employment is on an at-will basis & subject to termination if dealership rules & regulations are violated.