What are the responsibilities and job description for the Branch Manager position at Fireside?
Fireside Hearth & Home is looking to add a Branch Manager to our Elkridge, MD location.
Fireside Hearth & Home is the world’s largest and leading fireplace installing distributor and retail dealer in North America and a subsidiary of Hearth & Home Technologies – the largest manufacturer of fireplace products and an HNI Corporation operating company. Fireside is a team of 400 hearth experts located across 6 regions, 12 states and 29 branches across the USA. Check us out at
www.fireside.com
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The Branch Manager Iis responsible for all functions, excluding sales, of a branch that installs 3999 of less units annually. The Branch Manager Iis responsible for the profitability, safety, installations and service of the branch and promotes teamwork among the members, subcontractors, builder customers, homeowner customers and vendors. The Branch Manager is expected to perform all duties with the highest level of customer service, professionalism, safety and integrity.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversees the Division Field Operations Supervisor, Service members and Warehouse members’ daily responsibilities.
- Communicates essential business information to all members on a need to know basis
- Promotes a team atmosphere between Branch, Hub and Sales members
- Receives and resolves escalated customer issues – delegates responsibilities for quick resolution
- Responsible for working capital [inventory, A/R], performs quarterly inventory audits, and resolves open Customer A/R issues caused by incomplete or unsatisfactory quality issues
- Achieve Branch financial and strategic goals by managing labor cost, capacity planning and overall G&A expenses.
- Responsible for reviewing and coordinating installation and service schedules to optimize productivity and customer service level
Qualification
- Bachelor’s Degree in business administration or an operations-related or construction –related field and a minimum of 3-5 years of work experience in the hearth or construction industry including managing others; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Candidates should have good leadership skills
- Candidates should possess good verbal and written communication skills.
- Must have the ability to build relationships with internal and external customers.
- Must be computer literate
- Must have excellent organizational skills, attention to detail
- Must have problem-solving capabilities and excellent customer service skills.
- Must have the ability to multi-task and to interact effectively.
- Must be able to drive a forklift