Deputy Branch Manager

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Recruitment Solutions

Job Ref

DGM01FM7

Date posted

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Location

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary

R 750,000.00 per annum plus benefits

SUMMARY

Great opportunity for a strong candidate to be developed into the Branch Manager. Experience in the Motor / Technical Parts space important.

POSITION INFO

This is an ideal opportunity if you have worked within the motor parts/ workshop space and are looking for the next step. You will be developed to assist the Branch Manager for a future as GM in a couple of years. Your excellent management skills, communication skills, coupled with the ability to take ownership, will make you a suitable candidate for this role. This position is based in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town. Requirements: Motor Industry Experience - not as a car sales person but in Parts division Sales background Self-motivated, driven Duties will include: Sales:

• Establishing new business and maintaining current business and client relationships.
• Ensure customer service is exceptional and that company are the client's main supplier of components.
• Demonstrating and presenting products to new and existing customers.
• Create and market customer-specific marketing solutions.
• Ensure claims, credit notes and other issues from clients are dealt with timeously and ensuring a positive outcome.
• Achieving and exceeding agreed upon sales targets and outcomes.
• Ensuring sales staff members are motivated and have the necessary product knowledge.
• Provide sales training where necessary.
• Identify new opportunities in the market and ways of improving our service.
• Make recommendations for price reviews to ensure our competitiveness.
• Ensure timeous quotes are provided to customers.
• Ensure clients credit limits are adhered to.
• Ensure debtors stay within their credit limits. General Management:
• Managing day to day activities of all staff at branch and ensuring they perform their duties.
• Supervise staff and generate performance reports, provide feedback to staff members.
• Manage staff related issues, i.e. approve leave, sick leave, disciplinary/dismissal hearings, hiring of staff and other related procedures and more.
• Conduct staff training if need be.
• Ensuring all internal controls that the group has implemented are adhered to.
• Purchasing of local goods, and appropriate planning for when these goods need to be purchased.
• Approving and signing off, of all invoices/expenses that the company undergoes, and ensuring they are within budget.
• Coordinate appropriate record keeping by all staff members, for accountants and auditors' purposes.
• Preparing detailed yearly budgets.
• Reviewing monthly management accounts, providing detailed reasons for variances and take corrective action.
• Preparing weekly feedback management reports.
• Ensuring all assets of the company are properly protected and maintained. Stock:
• Ensure that adequate stock levels are maintained to provide optimum service levels to clients.
• Provide monthly inputs in respect of additional quantities and new part numbers in stock orders placed on overseas suppliers.
• Responsible for co-ordinating monthly stock counts, and adjustments to stock.
• Liaising with the ordering department to ensure sufficient stock on hand, managing excess and dead stock.
• Ensure products couriered to customers or forwarded to other branches are received within the time frame agreed.
• Ensure products received from suppliers are unpacked timeously and checked before they are put on the shelves.
• Ensure that security of stock is excellent. Logistics
• Ensure that the fleet of vehicles are properly maintained.
• Ensure that the driver's activities are properly monitored from the time they load, the routes they take, the time they take and the signing off of the product delivered.
• Ensure that products forwarded via Couriers are also properly monitored to ensure customers receive their product as promised.
• Ensure that products forwarded to other branches are received within the time span agreed.
• Ensure that products received from Suppliers are unpacked timeously and checked before they are put on the shelves. Administration:
• Ensure that all staff are properly appointed and receive employment contracts.
• Ensure that staff understand their goals and are regularly evaluated to measure performance.
• Ensure that personnel policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Ensure that all purchases and expenses are properly recorded and signed off by yourself.
• Ensure that expenditure stays within budget parameters.
• Ensure that all Assets of the Company are properly protected and maintained.
• Prepare annual budgets for the branch.
• Study monthly management results and take corrective actions. This is an opportunity of a lifetime. Your ability to be developed and trained, coupled with your experience in the Motor PARTS space / industry will make you a suitable candidate. If this sounds like you, forward your CV by applying directly to this ad. Suitable candidates will be emailed an application form and also contacted via email and telephonically to discuss your CV and skillset. Thank You.