Dealer Principal

**INTERNAL/EXTERNAL ADVERT**

**Position: Dealer Principal**

**Business Unit: Ford Franchise**

**Location: NMI Ford Bruma**

**Reporting to: Franchise Executive**

**Overview: Job purpose and deliverables**
- Are you a leader able to motivate a dynamic team, in a fast paced environment ensuring that targets are met and exceeded through exceptional customer service?

**Core purpose of the role**

**Key deliverables and outputs**
Reporting to the Franchise Executive, you will be responsible for:

- Implementation and management of the dealership strategic plan and direction;
- Full dealership operational processes;
- The control of dealership expenses; Implementation and management of value creation processes in the dealership;
- Management and leadership of departmental managers and staff;
- Meet acceptable performance levels;
- Meet productivity and quality objectives;
- Implementation of forward thinking ideas;
- Responsible for reporting at Franchise and head office level;
- Achieve manufacturers targets, objectives, and standards;
- Exceeding budgeted operating profit;
- Achieve customer satisfaction targets;
- Develop positive relationship with OEM;
- Assuring compliance with standards, safety regulations, rules, procedures and laws;
- Being responsible for security of company property; and
- Adhering strictly to rules or polices.

**Internal customers**
- All Business units; All support functions; Finance

**External stakeholders**
- Customers; Suppliers; OEM

Ford Bruma: Dealer Principal

**INTERNAL/EXTERNAL ADVERT**

**Overview: Essential individual competencies to be successful in the job**

**Academic qualifications Work experience**

**Essential: Essential**:

- Tertiary education Five years’ sales management/general management

experience in a volume dealership
- Five years Dealer Principal experience

**Note**: Ford OEM experience Preferred
- Unendorsed driver’s license

**Skills Knowledge**

**Essential**:

- Extensive knowledge of motor dealership Excellent communication skills operational requirements Ability to plan, organize and control
- Knowledge of products and finances Exceptional time management
- Advanced computer skills Attention to detail
- Good interpersonal relationship skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Must be able to multi-task
- Collaborative approach
- Career maturity

**Personal Attributes**

**Essential**:

- Assertive and persuasive
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to be innovative and embrace change
- Perseverance
- Ability to lead a team of departmental managers
- Team player with the focus on value creation for all.

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Johannesburg, Gauteng: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Bachelors (required)

**Experience**:

- Dealer Principal: 5 years (preferred)

License/Certification:

- driver’s license (required)
- drivers license (required)