Automotive Sales Manager

Benefits

• Medical Plan
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Basic Life Insurance
• Opportunities for Advancement
• Training Programs
• Flexible Schedules
• Work Life Balance

Gerry Lane Chevrolet is one of the region's best dealerships, serving the Baton Rouge communities in Louisiana for more than 50 years. Our team enjoys training programs, a fantastic culture and opportunities for advancement, which are company-wide focuses to help you grow both personally and professionally. We're interested in helping your career and adding to your resume because we know that happy employees lead to happier customers!

• Recruit, hire, train, and oversee a team of automotive salespeople
• Coach salespeople on best practices for closing more vehicle deals and provide advice and guidance to improve sales performance
• Oversee all activities occurring in the vehicle showroom
• Set sales goals, track progress, and lead team to achieve and exceed those quotas
• Forecast sales for upcoming months and quarters and compile the necessary reports for dealership management to review
• Step in to answer customer questions and issues when required
  
  Coordinate and lead all regular sales meetings with the sales staff
• Develop and manage a CRM platform to retain customers and seek out new prospective sales
• Maintain a strong focus on satisfaction of all customers

• Sales managers should be highly-motivated, decisive and outgoing, and have good analytical skills. They must also have good communications skills, especially dealing with executives, staff and customers. Customer service skills are important so sales managers can help their staff close deals and solve problems with unhappy customers. Since many sales managers are responsible for developing training programs for staff, they must be creative and have good managerial skills.