Auto Pedigree Regional Manager Limpopo

**Position Overview**:
The Regional Manager will be responsible for developing and executing tactical strategies and delivery plans for the region, which includes multiple branches. This role will focus on driving alignment and standardisation across the region, ensuring consistent service delivery, and achieving regional objectives. Key responsibilities include meeting performance targets, vehicle sales, and profit goals to support the overall success of the business

**Specific Role Responsibilities**:
**Job Outputs**:

- Ensure financial results are achieved and exceeded by the branches in the Region in line with agreed budgets and targets; including the increase of sales and profit, and monitoring control of expenses.
- Monitor effective asset management and implement good governance for all branches.
- Management of related administrative functions.
- Responsible for assessing and implementing local marketing programmes and measuring their efficiency.
- Assessment of staff training and development needs and implementation of programmes to address such.
- Required to conduct regular branch visits and ensure effective management of Sales, Marketing and related administration.
- Ensure customer complaints are dealt with in a timely manner.
- Communication of business policies, procedures and strategies and ensuring adherence thereof by Branch Managers and their teams.

**Accountabilities and Performance Goals**:

- To achieve, maintain and increase the profit for the region.
- To ensure that sales and expense targets are defined, communicated and adhered to.
- To ensure that Branch Managers and Financial and Insurance Managers work efficiently and effectively together to grow the regional sales.
- To ensure that all Branch Managers in their region are adequately supported with training requirements, resources and administration support.
- To provide leadership and support to Branches through constant mentoring, planning and where necessary, direct interventions

**Qualifications and Experience**:
**Minimum Experience**:

- 5-8 years' experience in a similar environment, of which at least 3 years' management experience in an operations/sales environment.

**Minimum Qualification**:

- Tertiary qualification in business/sales management (equivalent to NQF4/5)
- Preferred Qualification:

- Diploma/Degree in commerce/business/management studies (NQF6/7)

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Valid, unendorsed Code 8 driver’s license
- Computer literate, specifically intermediate knowledge of MS Office.
- Extensive knowledge of relevant legislation, namely NCA/FICA/FAIS/POPIA etc

**Essential to note: The role involves extensive travelling to branches in the Region.**

**Skills and Personal Attributes**:
**Competencies**:

- Communication: excellent English communication skills at multiple levels.
- Interpersonal Effectiveness
- Strategic Orientation
- Sales Management skills at a tactical level.
- Seasoned ability to develop sales
- Business Operations Management skills
- Business Acumen-Including:

- Sound knowledge of business and accounting principles.
- Ability to comprehend stock balance, asset and ledger reports.
- Creating and/or leveraging opportunities.
- Manage costs and wastage to improve profitability.
- Planning, Organising, Controlling, Monitoring, Improving and Reporting.
- Judgement
- People Management skills, including the ability to communicate goals, objectives, problems and solutions effectively; and the ability to provide counselling, mentorship and support to ensure harmonious work environment.
- Inspirational Leadership skills, including creating opportunities for professional collaboration, team building, consensus building, and conflict resolution.
- Emotional Intelligence, including resilience and openness to working with different personalities.
- Computer Literate with Excel and Automate knowledge.
- Identification and implementation of suitable staff training and development programmes.
- Innovation and continuous improvement: Explores ways to improve service and introduce new work procedures that save time, effort and money.
- Good report writing skills

**Personal Attributes**:

- Committed
- Professional
- Resilient
- Approachable and trustworthy
- Independent, self-managed and highly proactive.