Cert Pre-Owned Manager

Job Title: Certified Pre-Owned Sales Manager

Summary 

Ensures customer retention and the profitability of this profit center by recruiting qualified sales personnel. Assumes responsibility for appraising, purchasing, reconditioning, displaying, and merchandising the used vehicle inventory.
 

Essential Duties 

• Forecasts goals and objectives for sales, gross and key expenses on a monthly and annual basis.
• Hires, motivates, counsels and monitors the performance of all used-vehicle sales employees.
• Prepares and administers an annual operating forecast and budget for the used-vehicle sales department.
• Understands, keeps abreast of and complies with federal, state and local regulations that affect used-vehicle sales.
• Directs and schedules the activities of all department employees, ensuring proper staffing at all times.
• Assists individual salespeople in setting aggressive yet realistic monthly goals and objectives and provides them with the support to meet these goals.
• Ensures proper follow-up of all potential buyers by developing, implementing, and monitoring a prospecting and sales control system.
• Develops, implements and monitors a follow-up system for used-vehicle purchasers.
• Maintains vehicle inventory. Monitors customers likes and dislikes, lost sales, and dealership sales history and conducts local market analyses to determine which vehicles to stock.
• Processes salesperson commission sheets daily and monitors the payroll records of all used-vehicle salespeople.
• Conducts daily and weekly sales and sales training meetings.
• Establishes and enforces product-knowledge standards.
• Oversees the efforts of used-vehicle salespeople to enhance the image and customer satisfaction ratings of the dealership.
• Helps salespeople close deals.
• Ensures 100 percent turnover of each customer to F&I.
• Communicates daily with the new-vehicle sales manager regarding units needed for used-vehicle inventory.
• Ensures that used-vehicle salespeople are informed of all new inventory and current advertising efforts, including special sales.
• Studies newspaper ads and any other sources available to find good-quality, low-mileage units.
• Enforces a ____-day turn policy.
• Appraises all incoming used vehicles.
• Ensures that cosmetic and mechanical reconditioning is performed within the dealership's cost and time limitations.
• Plans and controls the display of used vehicles.
• Establishes and controls wholesaling activities.
• Establishes delivery procedures and ensures that delivery includes an introduction to the service department and scheduling of the first service appointment.
• Assists in the development of advertising campaigns and other promotions.
• Keeps abreast of auto auction activity and prices and attends auctions on a regular basis.
• Approves all paperwork from auctions and provides proper documentation to the office for purchases.
• Notifies the used vehicle department manager of anticipated delivery of purchases.
• Tracks results of auction purchases and compares gross profits of auction vehicles with those of trade-ins.
• Develops and maintains outside sources (wholesalers and retailers) for both buying and selling units.
• Handles customer complaints immediately and according to dealership's guidelines.
• Attends managers meetings.
• Maintains professional appearance.
• Other tasks as assigned. 
   

Qualifications 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
 

Education and/or Experience 

• Two to four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  
  

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.
  
  
  

Mathematical Skills 

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Reasoning Ability 

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
  
   

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations 

• Valid  Driver's License

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.
 

Work Environment 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
 

Job Title: Used-vehicle Sales Manager

Department: Used Vehicle Sales Department

Reports To: General Sales Manager

FLSA Status: Exempt

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Prepared Date: 11/08/2022

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