General Motors Hiring For District Manager Sales – Eastern Ontario at Ontario Full Time

This posting will close on January 7, 2022 @ 11:59PM.

The District Manager Sales – Eastern Ontario will be responsible for leading and motivating their dealers within Eastern, Ontario. This role is a temporary full-time position. The successful individual will support Eastern Ontario for the duration of 1 year to cover a leave of absence and upon completion of 1 year, will be moved to another similar position.

In conjunction with the Regional Manager and the Regional Marketing Manager, the District Manager Sales will deploy initiatives towards the achievement of retail sales and market share, maximize revenue, in addition to building strong partnership with the dealers by driving sales performance and improving customer experience.

This position also supports and guides regional marketing plans and strategies into the District and assists in identifying opportunities and developing plans to grow retail sales, market share and revenue.

The successful candidate will focus on and be measured on the following 4 key areas:

• Drive retail sales and market share performance
• Drive order coverage
• Drive adjacency revenue performance: Accessory sales revenue, OnStar, GMPP, GM Card
• Improve Customer Satisfaction and retail experience

Key Responsibilities:

Sales & Share Performance

Achieve retail sales and share objectives for the district

Develop plans and strategies to maximize vehicle ordering coverage to drive retail sales

Lead and motivate team of dealers through consensus cycles and order calls

Drive effective forecasting process at the dealer level

Implement strategies to drive forecasting and ordering to capitalize on vehicle line opportunities to improve market share

Identify sales opportunities and gaps on the District to develop plans in conjunction with Regional Marketing Manager through analysis of sales, inventory and share data to increase performance

Establish and develop key EV dealer advocates on the District

Conduct monthly sales performance analysis and identify areas to improve and implement dealer action plans

Ensure GM’s competitive position & opportunities are communicated effectively to Dealers

Drive improvement of poor performing market share dealers (DRER focus dealerships)

Drive strong dealer processes to ensure dealer capitalize on sales opportunities and leverage GM tools, reports and initiatives:

• Dealer Direct and DealDriver Pro
• Dealer Website / Digital Package
• Inventory Balancing Tool
• Business Development Culture & Practices
• Dealer Financial Reports
• GM Financial tools – retail leasing, near prime etc.
• Sales and Product Plus Training
• Recognition Programs – President’s Club/SMG programs etc.

Adjacency Performance

Drive Accessories revenue performance with strong (LPO) upfront ordering as well as effective

showroom selling and merchandising (ACO) strategy implementation

Drive OnStar activations with Online Enrolment and Welcome Call completions

Support GM Protection Plan (GMPP) and GM Card activations

Drive GM Financial Leasing Penetration

Improve Customer Satisfaction and Retail Experience

Build a culture of customer focus within the dealers and ensure processes and procedures are in place to support customers and build advocacy

Champion improvement in retail digital customer experience and implementation of retail innovation that support retail experience improvement

Drive CSI performance and improve negative impact dealership performance

Manage customer complaint issues appropriately and support resolving them with a “win-win” orientation

Additional Job Description

Qualifications:

• A strong desire to win and continuously drive results and improvements
• Understanding of GM’s distribution processes
• Understanding of GM field sales tools and reports
• Ability to effectively prioritize work and efficiently manage a heavy workload
• High level of decision making and judgement skills
• Ability to manage stress effectively
• Willingness to work extended hours on occasion if required (eg month-end)
• Successful candidates will be required to attest to, and be prepared to provide proof of, their vaccination status and that any job offer will be conditional on the candidate being fully vaccinated.

Education and Training

• Post Secondary Education required – Undergraduate degree preferably in Business and/or MBA preferred

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