Sales Manager

Location Toyota Romford

Working Hours Full Time

Closing Date 13/05/2025

Sales Manager
Steven Eagell Group

Toyota Romford

We have a fantastic opportunity for the right individual to develop a career within an industry with one of the highest global marketing spends and at a company representing the world’s largest automotive brand.

The Steven Eagell Group is an award-winning employer and Europe’s largest Lexus and Toyota retailer, with 44 locations across the South East, East of England and West Midlands. Our foremost objective is to offer complete satisfaction to every one of our valued customers.

We are currently expanding our business and are now offering exciting opportunities to join the team, as Sales Manager at our Romford site. If you are an experienced Sales Manager looking for a new opportunity then we want to hear from you!

Does this sound like you?

• Enjoy constantly meeting new people and building rapport and connections
• Have strong communication skills and enjoy presenting ideas to others
• Have Automotive Sales management experience and wish to build on this
• Have excellent customer service and sales experience
• Passionate about the automotive industry and wish to work for the largest manufacturer in the world

If so, then read on for more detailed role information!

Lead the sales team

• Ensure all members of the Sales team understand the implications of The Toyota Way for their role and monitor their performance against agreed customer service targets (e.g. CRS and Google Reviews)
• Lead the Sales team by personally demonstrating and encouraging the skills and behaviours associated with Steven Eagell Group & The Toyota Way
• Ensure Sales team are focused on delivering Complete Customer Satisfaction at all times

Manage performance to achieve key targets and deliver continuous improvement

• Monitor individual and team performance against agreed sales targets (volume and profit), work with the GM and TGB field staff to review progress and develop action plans where appropriate
• Manage and motivate the Sales team to ensure that key activities (e.g. sales prospecting and follow up) are delivered to plan
• Manage the Sales Administration team to ensure that key processes and documentation are delivered to agreed standards and timescales
• Continuously review and improve sales processes and systems to deliver increased levels of customer satisfaction whilst maximising profitability
• Work with colleagues across the dealership to investigate and resolve customer complaints

Manage and develop individuals

• Monitor staff training needs, ensuring training and development plans are in place and up to date for all members of the team
• Work with individuals to address performance issues e.g. by providing coaching
• Assess potential recruits for the Sales team

Provide advice and sign-off on key issues

• Decide the dealership’s display layout and vehicle mix for new/used cars in line with guidelines, ensuring the correct display of all point of sale materials
• Work with the Parts/Aftersales Manager to agree accessory displays for the dealership
• Work with Sales Executives to approve all part exchanges and purchases of used cars
• Sanction and manage any paint or repair work on part exchanges/used cars or preparation work on new cars, ensuring all vehicles meet the correct standards for sale or display
• Agree goodwill gestures and customer discounts
• Work with the GM to negotiate with relevant suppliers to achieve the best possible terms and monitors results accordingly
• Control used car stock value and mix in line with budgeted levels, negotiating with local dealers and specialists to sell 'trade on' vehicles in order to maximise margins

Works as a full member of the centre team

• Work with colleagues and other teams across the dealership to provide a seamless service to customers (e.g. by informally observing and responding to the needs of customers who are not being attended to by other members of staff)
• Ensure opportunities for sales by other teams are followed up by the most appropriate specialist
• Act as a full member of the dealership’s management team to take the business forward
• Also manages own customer base and covers for Sales Executives as required

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Reg Office: Steven Eagell Limited10 Queen Street PlaceLondonEC4R 1AG

Reg. Company Number: 4370971

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Financial Disclosure

Steven Eagell Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA Reference Number 671531)as a credit broker. We are not a lender or an independent financial advisor. In the first instance, we will introduce you to Preferred lender and provide you with information regarding the finance products available to enable you to decide whether a particular finance product from Preferred lender is right for you based on the information provided. In the event that Preferred lender is not able to provide credit, we will refer you to another trusted credit broker already known to us. This credit broker will attempt to source credit for you through an alternative panel of lenders.

You are not required to use Preferred lender or any other lender introduced by our trusted broker. We do not charge you a fee for an introduction to Preferred lender or to our trusted broker but we will receive a commission if you use their services, this is normally a fixed fee or a fixed percentage of the amount you borrow. The level of commission will vary dependant on the product and the lender that you use. We will inform you of the amount of commission that we will earn in good time before the finance agreement is entered into and ask you to consent to its payment. You do not have to take our finance. You can arrange funding of your vehicle elsewhere and in some cases it may be cheaper.

Steven Eagell Limited is also an appointed representative of Ingeni Services Group Limited, Unit 11, Atlas Works, Foundry Lane, Earls Colne, Colchester, CO6 2TE, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Ingeni Services Limited's (FCA Reference Number 747381) Ingeni Services Group Limited business is to act as an agent on behalf of the insurer for insurance distribution activities only. We do not charge you a fee for our services as an insurance intermediary. We will earn a commission from the insurance provider for introducing you to them. The nature or level of commission we receive will not alter our advice to you and will depend on the product that you purchase.For full details of our FCA Commission Status Disclosure please here