Funeral Home Manager

Funeral Home Manager

Revolutionizing the funeral industry means blazing new trails, creating new ideas, developing strong relationships, preserving legacies, and compassionately caring for families. With over 200 locations across the country, Foundation Partners Group is continuing to expand our reach, but we only do this with exceptional team members ready to embrace the future of the funeral industry.

Our team members are vital to the health of our funeral homes, and we value the insight, ideas, and passion they bring every day to compassionately care for our families. FPG is transforming the funeral industry one life, one family, and one community at a time. Join us as we revolutionize the funeral industry across the nation.

We are currently seeking a highly talented Funeral Home Manager at Advent Funeral & Cremation Services with locations in Lanham, MD and Falls Church, VA. The Funeral Home Manager is responsible for day-to-day operations, customer service standards, being a company ambassador to the community, the overall financial performance of the location/s, and team member development that creates, supports, and sustains a high-performance, innovative and family-centric culture.

• Builds and maintains a strong "brand" by building relationships in the community, staying innovative with social media, i.e., Facebook, Instagram and keeping the individual brand aligned with the business segments
• Ensures every client family is presented with all service and merchandise options – Every Family, Every Option, Every Time, communicating the importance of a differentiated guest experience by clearly articulating the value of Share Life®
• Contributes to the overall efficiency of the location by maintaining open and effective communication and maintaining accurate and timely client files.
• Maintains customer service standards as implemented for appropriate brand/s
• Leads facility management to include ensuring the fleet of vehicles and all areas of the building and grounds, i.e., landscaping, painting, and parking lot are adequately maintained
• Leads and oversees, and manages all financial components, including vendor relationships, i.e., signing checks, annual budgeting, accounts payable and receivable, labor management, daily sales outstanding (DSO), revenue, and EBITDA for the locations
• Leads monthly and quarterly financial and business reviews with team members, drives revenue, sales, and business results
• Leads all disaster relief efforts in partnership with supervisor, i.e., hurricanes, winter storms, tornadoes, etc., to ensure team members, client families, and building are safe and secure
• Partners with home office department leaders, i.e., marketing, finance, human resources, and IT, by maintaining regular ongoing two-way communication
• Acts to improve market share through membership through board/officer participation of at least one community organization, i.e., rotary, regularly participates in at least two community events, and groups and other community relationships as assigned by your supervisor
• Identifies potential acquisitions
• Carries out other assigned projects and duties, i.e., car washing, building/equipment repair, and pre-need arrangement planning
• Participates in weekly update calls with the supervisor to share and exchange resources and ensure goals are being met
• Oversees all team members participating in services, ensuring that each team member understands their role and professionally represents the location
• Leads and oversees all employee relations, i.e., staffing to meet business needs, onboarding and training of new hires, talent review and succession planning, coaching and development
• Leads all labor-management components for the location/s team members, i.e., scheduling, labor margins, overtime, timecards
• Oversees pre-need production, including managing the budget, staffing for pre-need sales, and ensuring at-need families are aware of future pre-need offerings
• Leads initial transfers of decedents, embalms, dresses, cosmetizes, caskets, and prepares deceased on a needed basis (per appropriate licensing) to the instructions obtained from the family
• Completes tasks…