Sales Manager

Location: Charles Hurst, Lexus Belfast 

Hours: 44 hours on a rota basis: Mon-Wed 9am - 5:30pm, Thurs 9am - 8pm,  Fri 9am - 5:30pm & Sat 9am - 3pm

Salary: £40,000-£50,000 basic depending on experience with an OTE of £70,000 

Charles Hurst Lexus Belfast has an amazing opportunity for a Sales Manager to join their hard-working team in their incredible state of the art dealership. Huge investments have been made to our Lexus site on Boucher Road in recent months, which will help to maintain this world-renowned Brand’s image as forward-thinking and truly innovative.

This could be your career-defining role with a Top 100 Northern Ireland company, based at the largest automotive park in Europe! Your role as Sales Manager will be crucial to the success of this dealership, therefore it is essential that you are able to demonstrate ambition and success in your current role in the Automotive industry. You will also be a true role model for customer service excellence, and always leading by example. You will develop long-lasting, meaningful relationships with our customers; and coach and motivate the team to do so too.

You will be reporting to Franchise Sales Manager and be responsible for a team of Showroom Managers and Sales Executives (covering both new and used vehicles). This is an incredibly rare opportunity not to be missed!

You will oversee the day to day running of the showroom including vehicle valuations and sales; supervising the vehicle journey from workshop prep right through to imaging and showroom presentation. You will work alongside the divisional buyer, dedicated prep Technicians, detailers, and photography team so that you can deliver marketing standards. This role requires you to be organised and meticulous, paying very close attention to detail and setting a very high standard for the rest of the team to follow.

Other responsibilities as a Sales Manager would include but are not limited to:

• • Supervising the full sales process, from web inquiry to phone & showroom.
  • Managing staff performance from structured 121’s to training & development.
  • Implementing department targets and brand KPI's.
  • Responsibility for buying in vehicles, as well as keeping stock pricing up to date.
  • Ensuring full FCA compliance within the Sales Department.
  • Managing and owning our Customer Satisfaction. 

Lookers/Charles Hurst are proud to be one of the top three motor vehicle retailers in the UK & Ireland, representing 32 vehicle manufacturers, selling and servicing a huge range of cars at over 150 franchised dealerships across hundreds of locations throughout the UK & Ireland. We recognise the hard work, flexibility and commitment of our people so we offer an industry leading benefits package. This includes competitive basic salaries plus;

• Competitive salaries with clear pay scales in place as you develop
• Enhanced holidays that increase with service
• Eligibility to join one of our colleague car plans
• Critical illness cover after 2 years and Life Assurance
• Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Employee assistance programme and free access to Smart Health giving employees and their immediate families access to services to support well being
• Employee purchase scheme which includes discounted shopping vouchers
• Employer funded Private Medical Insurance
• Employer Pension Scheme

We strongly believe in nurturing and providing our people with specific manufacturer brand and management training to enhance career development opportunities. We have a great bunch of people and we like to celebrate and encourage success at all levels with our annual Excellence Awards. So? What are you waiting for?

Charles Hurst is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to a working environment that is free from all types of discrimination, is inclusive, and empowers our people to bring their whole self to work and reach their full potential.

If your application is successful we will conduct relevant employment checks prior to you starting with us. Depending on the role and responsibilities, these could include us verifying your recent employment, address and credit history. We may also conduct a criminal record check and a driving licence check.