Job purpose

The Branch Manager is responsible for organising and managing all Sales related activities in the Equity Store.

This includes but is not limited to the following:

• • Generating revenue to ensure a profit.
  • Promoting of the company and welfare of all employees at the branch.
  • Manage all costs to ensure adherence to budget parameters.
  • Coaching, training, motivating and guiding all employees at the branch.
  • Implementing and enforcing operating policies and procedures.
  • Delivering agreed sales operating targets and goals.
  • Implementing strategies to ensure safe and efficient retail store operation and continuous improvement .

Responsibilities:

Financials and Sales:

• • Achieve all branch target sales
  • Control branch expenses within business parameters
  • Ensure that company assets are maintained
  • Ensure superior service delivery
  • Prepare and present monthly, quarterly, and annual statements, analyses, and reports of branch operations and finances
  • Establish and maintain close relationships with customers
  • Manage all Certificate of Compliances (COCs)
  • Manage dead and slow moving stock
  • Manage stock holding to less than 1 (one) months turn over
  • Managing internal and external stakeholder relations and negotiating contracts

Achieve Health and Safety standards as set out by Company

• • Communicate the company policy on health and safety to all staff effectively and on a continual basis (toolbox talk)
  • Communicate any risk, injury, loss of life or damage to company assets to management in line with prescribed company procedures
  • Achieve a minimum of 95% on all Safety Audits.

Adhere to company policies & procedures

• • Maintain a working knowledge of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act
  • Adhere to the companies amalgamated policies & procedures published on the company Intranet
  • Maintain knowledge of companies Industrial Relations policies and procedures and interact with People department as required

Site visits

• • Analyze audit feedback and ensure all problems are rectified
  • Attend monthly site meetings with site customers
  • Attend random visits to ensure that Bridgestone site employees are performing  

General

• • Undertake all reasonable requests and instructions, given verbally or in writing, which fall within the parameters of this job.
  • Adherence to such requests or instructions
  • Achieve a minimum of 90% on all Internal and Facilities Audits

Required capabilities:

• • Achieving sales targets and financial percentages
  • Ensure that the branch remains profitable
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Effectively manage all sites under your control
  • Budget achievement and expense control