Branch Manager

Position Summary

Supervise and coordinate the activities of all staff at the branch. Maintain a safe workplace environment, ensure compliance with applicable laws and attract and retain qualified team members. It is the Branch Manager’s objective to meet or exceed the annual EBIT, sales budget and inventory goals while fulfilling the customers’ expectations for supply of product and service.

Essential Tasks

• Hire and supervise employees who meet all critical requirements and qualifications for each position (counter sales, warehouse, delivery drivers and others as approved).
• Plan work schedules and assign duties to maintain adequate staffing levels, to ensure that activities are performed effectively, and to respond to fluctuating workloads.
• Communicate with employees on a regular basis to insure procedures are followed, new procedures and methods are considered and new approved methods or procedures are known and carried out on a timely basis.
• Appraise and document employee performance at regular intervals as required by company procedures, insuring a plan for improving employee performance and potential. Meet with each employee at least once a year (on their anniversary date) to formally review their performance and discuss future performance objectives and goals.
• Recommend pay increase based upon performance. Receive approval from Area Manager and Operations Manager before discussing with employee.
• Enforce company policies and procedures, abide by same.
• Counsel employees in work -related activities personal growth and career development.
• Prepare reports for the Area Manager and the Operations Manager.

Skills

• Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself and other individuals and organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Judgment & Decision making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Communicating: Conveying information to others in an effective manner. Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Active Learning: Understanding the implication of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Mathematics: Ability to solve simple equations; ability to use mathematics to solve problems.
• Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Qualifications

Education

• High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate); Associate degree in Business Administration preferred.

Professional Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in heavy duty truck parts industry, including a minimum of 3 years in a supervisory position.

Certifications/Licenses

• Valid drivers’ license with clean driving record.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. He or she will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other duties requested by his or her supervisor.