General Manager (East Palo Alto)

General Manager

A well-established service company is seeking a General Manager to work in their East Palo Alto market.

Responsibilities:

• Drive day-to-day sales and profit goals to the team and ensures the business is providing quality service to our customers.
• Monitoring and reporting monthly performance including P&L, weekly sales, expenditures, and monthly forecasts.
• Oversees managers and supervisors within the branch and reviews goals and objectives on a periodic basis. Proven leadership skills to lead a large team of management, administration, and service technicians in a large market.
• Works with the Regional Vice President to develop plans and strategies to improve overall performance of the branch/market and to support the strategic plans of the company.
• Ensures that branch has the appropriate licensing and certifications where required by city or state government as well as all Human Resources compliance issues.
• Ensures commercial and residential customer development and retention.
• Ability to recruit, hire and retain management, administration, and service technicians.

Requirements:

• Three to five years’ General Management experience in a service-related industry that may include pest control, courier/package delivery, uniform, lawn care, security/protective service, car rental and other related fields is desired.
• Prior multi-unit experience a major plus.
• Energetic leader with a strong team orientation.
• Excellent organizational, administrative, and communication skills.
• A minimum Bachelors’ Degree in business or related field is strongly preferred.
• Must be able to pass a background check and drug screen.
• Ability to set budgets and aggressively grow sales and profit.
• Creative ability and interest to grow new segments of business in your market.