General Manager Sales – Premium Automotive Dealer
Confidential Opportunity
A premium automotive dealer group is currently seeking a highly driven and hands-on General Manager Sales to lead and strengthen its sales operations across multiple branches.
This role is ideal for a strong sales leader with proven experience in the automotive industry, especially within premium, luxury, or high-value brands. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving business performance, leading branch sales teams, improving sales processes, and ensuring consistent achievement of targets across all locations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage overall sales operations across multiple dealer branches.
- Drive sales performance, revenue growth, profitability, and market share achievement.
- Develop and execute sales strategies to achieve monthly, quarterly, and annual targets.
- Provide strong leadership, coaching, and direction to Sales Managers, Supervisors, and Sales Consultants.
- Monitor daily sales activities, pipeline movement, customer follow-up, conversion rates, and team productivity.
- Ensure strong discipline in sales processes, CRM usage, prospecting, test drives, closing, and customer handling.
- Work closely with branch leaders to improve showroom performance and customer experience.
- Analyze market trends, competitor activities, pricing strategy, and customer behavior.
- Build a high-performance sales culture with strong accountability, urgency, and teamwork.
- Maintain strong relationships with key customers, corporate clients, leasing partners, and other business networks.
Requirements
- Minimum 8–10 years of experience in automotive sales, with at least 3–5 years in a senior sales leadership role.
- Strong background in premium, luxury, or high-value automotive brands is highly preferred.
- Proven track record in achieving sales targets and leading sales growth.
- Experienced in managing multiple branches, sales teams, or dealer operations.
- Strong hands-on leadership style with the ability to work closely with the team on the ground.
- Excellent business acumen, sales strategy, negotiation, and people management skills.
- Strong understanding of dealer sales operations, customer journey, CRM, and sales funnel management.
- Target-oriented, resilient, proactive, and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication and leadership presence.
Candidate Profile
We are looking for a commercially strong leader who is not only strategic, but also willing to be directly involved in daily sales execution. The ideal candidate should be able to lead from the front, build team discipline, strengthen sales culture, and deliver sustainable business results across multiple branches.
