What are the responsibilities and job description for the General Manager position at Woodgrain?
Principal Responsibilities
Results Management
The employee is regularly required to sit, stand, and walk. Additionally, the employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
Results Management
- Demonstrates effective budgeting, goal-setting, planning, coordination, and execution
- Achieves consistent positive results in Safety, Sales, Operations, and Service
- Communicates company, branch, and individual performance to all associates on regular basis
- Leads the branch transformation process
- Instills a culture of continuous improvement in all areas of business
- Develops and implements a Branch Improvement Plan – A branch SWOT analysis and activities to address them
- Communicates workflow expectations, priorities, and progress to all warehouse associates
- Drives organic sales growth by successful execution of the sales planning process
- Develops and constantly refreshes a deep knowledge of the competitive landscape
- Implements customer and market- based service level agreements with the goal of leading the market
- Builds a culture of high performance and high engagement
- Develops and implements branch workforce (staffing) plans to include: interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints and resolving problems
- Implements effective interviewing, assessment and selection techniques to identify the best available talent
- Provides a clear vision, effective training, targeted coaching and high-potential mentoring
- Manages a group of subordinate manages who will supervise an employee population between 15 to150 employees per branch
- Manages performance through effective goal-setting, timely feedback and prompt corrective action, if needed
- Develops and implements branch succession plans and associated activities with the goal of providing career advancement opportunities to our best talent
- Other duties as described by manager
- High school diploma /GED with 6 years of experience REQUIRED; Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Successful track record with leading teams in sales and operations
- Experience in managerial assignments with P&L accountability for sales and operations within the distribution industry
- Must have business acumen to create and understand financial statements, branch budgets, and technical journals
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to effectively communicate to all levels of branch operations
The employee is regularly required to sit, stand, and walk. Additionally, the employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
