General Manager, Planning (Airdrie)

General Manager, Planning (Airdrie)

04 Nov
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Bosch Truck Group / Bosch Idealease
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Airdrie

04 Nov

Bosch Truck Group / Bosch Idealease

Airdrie

Bosch Truck Group Inc. (formerly Glover International Trucks Ltd.) is an award-winning dealership network with nine locations across Alberta and British Columbia. For more than 50 years, we have helped our customers keep their businesses moving with reliable transportation solutions and trusted support. We are committed to delivering exceptional service, quality products, and cutting-edge solutions that meet our customers’ evolving needs. Our goal is to set the industry standard for reliability, safety, and customer satisfaction by building lasting partnerships and creating value for our clients. We are seeking an experienced and results-driven General Manager to lead all aspects of our Airdrie truck dealership operations. The General Manager is responsible for the overall performance, profitability, customer satisfaction, employee development, and operations of the dealership. This General Manager shall provide leadership and strategic direction of the dealership promoting a culture of safety, accountability, and exceptional customer service.

Provide overall leadership and direction for dealership operations.

Establish annual business plans, budgets, and performance objectives.

Monitor financial performance and implement strategies to improve profitability and operational efficiency.

Provide active leadership and oversight of parts and service department operations, ensuring workflow efficiency, shop and warehouse capacity utilization, technician productivity, and customer uptime objectives are achieved.

Regularly review parts and service department performance, staffing levels, customer demand, and operational constraints, implementing strategies to improve efficiency, profitability, and customer satisfaction.

Build and maintain solid relationships with key fleet, municipal, industrial,



and commercial customers.

Support Service and Parts departments in achieving operational and financial goals and customer experience objectives while ensuring accountability to established performance targets.

Monitor key performance indicators including efficiency, productivity, recovery rates, and customer satisfaction.

Ensure high-quality service delivery and effective inventory management.

Promote proactive maintenance programs and customer retention initiatives.

Participate in strategic customer meetings and support the resolution of major service-related concerns, escalations, and customer retention risks.

Financial Management

Manage dealership financial performance.

Control expenses while maintaining service quality and customer satisfaction.

Ensure effective management of working capital, inventory, and assets.

Review parts and service department financial performance, including parts sales with an emphasis on gross margin, parts inventory turns, labour gross profit, effective labour rate, recovery rate, technician productivity, warranty performance, and absorption metrics, ensuring corrective actions are implemented when required.

Customer Experience

Champion a customer-first culture throughout the dealership.

Resolve escalated customer concerns professionally and effectively.

Monitor customer satisfaction metrics and implement improvement initiatives.





Maintain strong relationships with customers, manufacturers, suppliers, and community stakeholders.

Monitor service customer satisfaction, customer uptime metrics, repeat repair trends, and complaint resolution processes, ensuring continuous improvement initiatives are implemented.

Provide coaching, performance management, and succession planning.

Ensure compliance with employment standards and company policies.

Maintain environmental, transportation, and regulatory compliance standards.

Oversee implementation of safety programs, emergency response procedures, and training requirements.

Previous leadership experience in the heavy equipment, automotive, or commercial truck industry.

Demonstrated success managing multi-department operations with full profit and loss responsibility.

Strong financial analysis, budgeting, and business planning skills.

Exceptional leadership, communication, and relationship-building abilities.

Experience with commercial truck manufacturers and dealer management systems.

Knowledge of transportation, fleet maintenance, and commercial vehicle regulations.

Experience working with OEM performance standards.

Strong understanding of service department performance metrics, technician workforce management, fleet maintenance operations and fleet service business development.

Financial Management

Customer Focus

Change Management

Negotiation & Relationship Management

Competitive salary and performance-based incentive plan

Comprehensive health and dental benefits

Retirement savings plan

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit a resume and cover letter detailing their leadership experience and accomplishments within dealership, transportation, automotive, or heavy equipment operations.

📌 General Manager, Planning (Airdrie)
🏢 Bosch Truck Group / Bosch Idealease
📍 Airdrie

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