Sales Manager - Automotive

Job Purpose: Sells automobiles by understanding and demonstrating characteristics, capabilities, and features; developing and qualifying buyers; closing sales.

Job Duties:

• Develops buyers by maintaining rapport with previous customers; suggesting trade-ins; meeting prospects at community activities; greeting drop-ins; responding to inquiries; recommending sales campaigns and promotions
• Qualifies buyers by understanding buyer's requirements and interests; matching requirements and interests to various models; building rapport
• Demonstrates automobiles by explaining characteristics, capabilities, and features; taking drives; explaining warranties and services
• Closes sales by overcoming objections; asking for sales; negotiating price; completing sales or purchase contracts; explaining provisions; explaining and offering warranties, services, and financing; collects payment; delivers automobile
• Provides sales management information by completing reports
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications
• Enhances dealership reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments

Skills/Qualifications

• Meeting Sales Goals
• Motivation for Sales, Selling to Customer Needs
• Financial Skills
• Documentation Skills
• Good reading, computer, and mathematics skills
• Exceptional Telephone Skills
• Listening & Verbal Communication
• Customer Focus
• Good time management skills with the aptitude of meeting all targets

Job Requirements

• Must hold a high school diploma or equivalent
• History of previous technician experience
• Superior customer interaction skills
• Excellent negotiation abilities
• Assertive personality and strong drive for success
• Must be able to work evenings and weekends
• All applicants must be able to demonstrate ability to pass pre-employment testing to include background checks, drug test, credit report, and valid driver license

Benefits

Benefits include medical and dental insurance, 401K retirement savings plan, Vacation time, holiday and company paid continuing education and training. Our company maintains a strong policy of equal employment opportunity for all associates. We hire, train, promote and compensate associates on the basis of personal and professional competence and potential for advancement without regard for race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability or citizenship, as well as other classifications protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.