Title: Branch Manager

Location: Bristol

Salary: £45,000 - OTE - £70k

Benefits:

Starting Salary £45,000 OTE - £70,000
Performance Related annual salary increases.
Pension Scheme
Bonus Scheme
26 days annual holiday + bank holidays (increases with service)
Simplyhealth Cash Plan (including retail discount scheme)
Critical Illness Cover
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Staff discount on company products

The Client

Our client are a leading hire company providing full UK coverage for industrial equipment.

With plans to expand the business further this has presented an exciting opportunity for an experienced Branch Manager to join the team in Bristol.

The role of Branch Manager:

To be a custodian of the brand, effectively meet our clients customers' needs and build a growing, profitable, sustainable branch.
To inspire and embed a high performance team culture throughout the branch, promoting accountability and responsibility, building an autonomous team where only the best is acceptable.
Leading the team with both your behaviours and the preparation, delivery and management of strategic plans focused on customer service excellence, sales performance, proactive sales activity and stock management. 
Engaging with a 'hands on' customer approach both 'in the field' and showroom.  Developing customer relationships, new business development and stock control management.
Understand the commercial and financial impacts of your strategic plan delivery through management of P&L and cost budgets.

Main Tasks of the Branch Manager

Ensure your commercial and financial targets are met through effective cost control and managing the teams commercial activities and their impact on the branch's operating result
Develop the knowledge & skills for you and your team to become the product specialist, able to articulate total cost of ownership solutions through best in class guidance to customers
Engage with customers in order to fully understand their needs and provide the appropriate help and support to ensure the correct solution is sold undertaking site surveys, machine demonstrations, machine training, building and presenting proposals
To be aware of, build and develop networks and relationships with local customers in conjunction with Target Market Managers and sales people within the Company
Develop sales through active and passive sales and marketing plans, utilising the support of other departments within the business
Communicate effectively to the team daily, weekly and monthly targets, clearly identifying what this means in terms of sales, profitability, costs, staffing levels etc.
Overseeing the consistency of logging service requests under warranty and fixed cost repairs via CRM software  

Your qualifications, experience and characteristics are

Full UK driving licence holder
Able to work flexible hours and occasional weekends
Minimum of A Level qualifications
Good understanding of the sales process, People management methodologies, Budget setting and Strategic planning
Face to face selling and application of the sales process.
Retail / B2B supervisory experience and able to demonstrate key achievements within a similar role.
Demonstrable a history of achieving targets
Demonstrate how strategy has been set and plans to achieve have been applied and evaluated
Experience of leading and developing a team

Keywords: Territory Sales, Branch Manager, Sales Manager, Centre Manager, Territorial Sales,  

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