General Manager

Everstory Partners

$100K — $120K *
Flint, MI 48504In-Person
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business or related field; equivalent professional experience considered
  • Minimum five years of management and personnel supervision experience
  • Prior experience in client-facing service operations, demonstrating leadership in complex settings
  • General understanding of budgeting procedures and basic accounting principles
  • Strong team leadership skills; experience developing high-performing teams
  • Experience managing multiple departments across various locations
  • Exceptional oral and written communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Take full ownership of daily operations across multiple locations, including full P&L responsibility
  • Achieve or exceed budgeted sales and profit levels; proactively correct deviations from financial goals
  • Model excellent customer service standards; resolve escalated customer issues
  • Provide motivational leadership to teams, guiding them to achieve goals while following company policies
  • Facilitate weekly manager meetings to discuss staffing, development, and operational strategies
  • Recruit, hire, train, and retain staff according to company standards
  • Manage inventory and merchandise for each portfolio location

Benefits

  • Base salary with a performance-based bonus tied to revenue
  • Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D and STD Insurance
  • Tuition reimbursement program for continued education
  • Anniversary awards for years of service
  • Career advancement opportunities and training programs
  • Employee assistance fund through Everstory Cares
  • Recognition through award programs like the Legend Award
  • Funeral and cemetery benefits for employees
  • Referral bonuses for bringing in new team members
  • 401k plan with company matching contributions
Full Job Description
Job Type

Full-time

Description

The Impact You Will Make

As a General Manager, you are a unique blend of a seasoned operator and a natural people leader with experience managing a diverse group of functions and departments for a designated portfolio of cemetery and funeral home locations. This leader is hands on and able to hire and motivate a winning team by role modeling honest communication and, integrity and a collaborative attitude. A savvy business leader with acumen, you will measure operational performance by the numbers, identifying underperforming metrics and generating strategic solutions in order to drive profitability and meet or exceed operational goals. You have a passion for promoting service excellence by implementing best-practices, establishing priorities and providing support and guidance in order to successfully service our families. In this role you will also:
  • Be responsible to take full ownership of all aspects of your portfolios daily operations, including full P&L responsibility in order to facilitate growth within your markets.
  • Achieve or exceed budgeted sales and profit levels. Review financial results against monthly and quarterly budget goals to ensure efficient operations and that all expenditures and costs remain within budgeted and cost guidelines. Takes a proactive approach to correct any deviation from financial budgets and performance.
  • Act as an example of excellent customer service standards for internal and external customers by taking responsibility for escalated customer issues and working to provide timely and satisfactory resolution to complaints or problems.
  • Provide motivational leadership to teams to accomplish goals and objectives while working within company guidelines.
  • Facilitate weekly managers meeting to review staffing, development, and training needs and discuss operating and sales plans, objectives and results.
  • Proactively recruit, hire, train and retain in accordance with companys standards, programs and materials.
  • Write and conduct timely performance reviews, create individual development plans, and provide regular follow up to ensure completion of goals. Provide ongoing follow-up, training and coaching to assist team members in achieving developmental objectives
  • Manage merchandise and property inventory for each location within designated portfolio.
  • Influence and manage relationships with vendors to ensure effective partnership in addressing needs for location or customers.
  • Ensures compliance with workplace health and safety standards and plans
  • Select and purchase all necessary material for operations within budgetary guidelines using approved vendors.


Core Competencies:
  • Compassion - Genuinely cares about people; is concerned about their work and non-work problems; is available and ready to help; is sympathetic to the plight of others not as fortunate; demonstrates real empathy with the joys and pains of others.
  • Customer Focus - Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
  • Ethics and Values - Adheres to appropriate (for the setting) and effective set of core values and beliefs during both good and bad times; acts in line with those values; rewards the right values and disapproves of others; practices what he/she preaches.


Requirements

  • Strong combination of business operations, quality, continuous improvement, process development and management experience to provide unique business solutions.
  • Ability to establish and maintain trust with all stakeholders customers, business partners, investors, and coworkers will be key in this essential role.
  • Experienced in developing effective methods of handling location issues including internal and external customer complaints and issues.
  • Excellent customer service skills.
  • Experience leading and developing teams high performing teams.
  • Prior experience managing multiple departments within multiple locations.
  • Consistently practice a pro-active approach, understanding urgency and prioritizing getting tasks appropriately.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.


Education and/or Experience:
  • Bachelors degree in business in Business or related; or equivalent professional experience
  • Minimum five (5) years of experience in management and personnel supervision.
  • Prior experience with client-facing service operations with a strong track record of process/operations field leadership and experience running complex operations of varied workflows and disciplines
  • General understanding of basic accounting principles; specifically, budgeting procedures.
  • Previous Cemetery/Funeral Home Management experience is strongly preferred.
  • Must possess a valid driver's license and access to a personal vehicle. Mileage reimbursement is provided for travel associated with job duties.
  • This position requires availability to work some holidays, evenings and weekends as needed.


Our Investment in You

Everstory Partners is proud to provide our employees with a quality work environment and opportunity for both personal and professional growth. As part of our ongoing commitment, we offer a competitive benefits package for our Full-Time Employees including:
  • Base salary pay with a performance-driven bonus plan tied to cemetery and funeral revenue
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D and STD Insurance
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Anniversary Award for each year of service
  • Career Advancement and Training - Aspiring Managers Program
  • Everstory Cares - Employee Assistance Fund
  • Legend Award Program
  • Funeral and Cemetery Benefits
  • Employee Referral Bonus
  • 401k with Company Match

The pay range for this role is based on a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions regardless of race, gender, age, religion, or any other protected characteristic. They include skill set, experience and training, licensure and certification, and other business and organizational needs. This range estimate has been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. Compensation decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.

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Salary Description

$100,000 - $120,000 base salary + bonus

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