General Manager – Itasca, Illinois

General Manager Itasca Illinois

Salary range - $175000 to $190000 ( Bonus)

HVAC firm is seeking a General Manager responsible for the overall success and management of our Residential HVAC service center. Our General Managers plan organize direct coordinate and control service center activities and functions to achieve revenue goals and objectives while maintaining a strong customer focus leveraging the brand and driving employee engagement in a rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Assuming full operational responsibility for profit and loss-related activities.
• Establishing a team culture among service center personnel and holding the team to a high standard of customer satisfaction.
• Consistently administering company policies and procedures throughout the service center.
• Monitoring and maintaining job satisfaction among personnel by completing annual performance evaluations and salary reviews in a thorough and timely manner.
• Preparing business forecasts budgets and other reports in addition to monitoring the timely flow of paperwork necessary to the service center.
• Recruiting selecting and training all service center employees.
• Financial analysis to identify trends and prospective problem areas and taking immediate action based on findings.
• Optimizing the service center to provide service complete tasks and otherwise perform efficiently.
• Developing new programs and executing established plans to meet and exceed sales goals.
• Maintaining a working knowledge of competitors developing innovations to maintain market lead sharing best practices across the organization.
• Partnering with local management and personnel to maintain best practices for safety and sales-generation in the field.
• Service center managers should spend at least 5% of their time in the field to gain a bottom-up perspective.
• Manage three or more front-line managers who indirectly supervise a field workforce of sales and service teams
  for both residential and commercial customers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS (INCLUDING EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS)

• Minimum of 10 years leading teams servicing Business to Consumer & B2B customer markets
• Minimum of 8 years of experience successfully leading a fast-paced service organization and a proven track record of growing a business.
• Bachelors degree required and 4 to 6 years related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. Masters degree preferred.
• Consistent track record of meeting and exceeding revenue objectives.

SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS AND/OR ABILITIES:

• Strong interpersonal/communication skills. (Oral and written)
• Ability to start and motivate a group of individuals to act as a team towards a common goal.
• Analyze cost and forecast data to ensure alignment with the Divisions goals and objectives.
• Build a team culture by recruiting motivating and training the staff.
• Review and promote the maintenance of a safe accident-free and healthy work environment.
• Demonstrated proficiency with multitasking alongside time management skills and the ability to prioritize and plan.
• Excellent analytical skills financial acumen and attention to detail.
  Computer proficiency. (Microsoft preferred)