Sales Manager

Automotive Sales Manager - Fowler Dodge

Fowler Dodge has an outstanding opportunity for a results-focused, highly driven and experienced Sales Manager who would be responsible for the dealerships sales objectives, goals, and overall customer satisfaction at the dealership.  To accomplish this task, the manager must effectively manage the sales personnel; have a strong knowledge of the local market and a understanding of the sales departments financial data. We are looking for those individuals who can sell 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 needs and interests; matching needs and interests to various models; building rapport
• Demonstrates automobiles by explaining characteristics, capabilities, and features; taking test 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; 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
• Excellent time management skills with the aptitude of meeting all targets

Job Requirements

• Must hold a high school diploma or equivalent
• Superior customer interaction skills
• Excellent negotiation abilities
• Assertive personality and strong drive for success
• Must be able to work evenings and weekends
• Valid Driver's License and MVR acceptable to our Insurance Carrier

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and sit.  The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Language Skills

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.  Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.  Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Compensation and Rewards include

Competitive Salary PLUS commissions and bonuses

What We Offer

Perks & Benefits

Fowler offers medical, vision, dental, life, & disability insurances. Fowler has a 401K employer matching plan, Paid Time Off, Volunteer Paid Time Off, and Paid Holidays & Parental Leave. Fowler also offers its employees access to an employee assistance program. Fowler offers job specific education to include student sponsorships, internships, manufacturer and dealership training with Graduate & Tool Incentive programs.

The Fowler Standard – This is what drives us. being friendly, helpful, honest and fair

The mission of Fowler is to grow our business by earning the respect, trust and loyalty of our customers through our employees.

Fowler's vision is to be the dealer of choice in the communities we serve. We will do this by providing exceptional products, services, and superior customer service.

Our dedication to the development and advancement of our people, technology and systems will help us get there together.

Our company maintains a strong policy of equal employment opportunity for all associates. We hire, train, promote and compensate employees 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.