Chief Executive Officer - Auto

Job Description:

Planning:

- Collaborates with the board (ED / JMD) to define and articulate the organization’s vision and to develop strategies for achieving that vision

- Creates annual operating plans that support strategic direction set by the board and correlate with annual operating budgets; submits annual plans to the board for approval

- Develops and monitors strategies for ensuring the long-term financial viability of the organization

- Develops future leadership within the organization

Operations:

- Oversees the operations of organization and manages its compliance with legal and regulatory requirements

- Creates and maintains procedures for implementing plans approved by the board of directors

- Promotes a culture that reflects the organization’s values, encourages good performance, and rewards productivity

- Hires, manages, and fires the human resources of the organization according to authorized personnel policies and procedures that fully conform to current laws and regulations

- Ensures that staff and board have sufficient and up-to-date information.

- Evaluates the organization’s and the staff’s performance on a regular basis

Financial Management:

- Oversees staff in developing annual budgets that support operating plans and submits budgets for board approval

- Prudently manages the organization's resources within budget guidelines according to current laws and regulations

- Ensures that staff practices all appropriate accounting procedures in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

- Provides prompt, thorough, and accurate information to keep the board appropriately informed of the organization’s financial position.

- Responsible for Profit and loss for the SBU.

HR Management:

- Manpower Planning and Recruitment

- Employee development, and training;

- Performance management.

- Employment and compliance to regulatory concerns and reporting;

Marketing and PR:

- Manage advertising opportunities in other theatre program, press and at venues.

- Organize the availability of company members for media/PR events as necessary.

- Oversee content, production and distribution of all marketing and publicity materials (posters, program, flyers, mail outs, brochures etc) with director, designer and project manager.

- Manage press development;

- Co-ordinate the invitation of potential future promoters and supporters of the company.

Relationships with OEMs:

- Serves as the primary spokesperson and representative for the organization to the OEMs

- Assures that the organization and its mission, programs, and services are consistently presented in a strong, positive image to relevant stakeholders

- Actively advocates for the organization, its beliefs, and its programmatic efforts

- Acts as a liaison between the organization and the OEM, building relationships with peer organizations when appropriate

General:

- Stays abreast of current trends related to the organization’s products and services and anticipates future trends likely to have an impact on its work

- Collects and analyzes evaluation information that measures the success of the organization’s program efforts; refines or changes programs in response to that information

Should have handled multiple Showrooms and Service Outlets.