Who We Are
Working at Reece & Fortiline means being part of a growing global company that brings our purpose and values to life every day. We celebrate our team members living our values and provide opportunities to build a long and remarkable career. We’re proud to support essential industries helping bring clean air and water to everyone. To learn more about our purpose and values, visit our career site at https://careers.reece.com/us/
General Manager
THE IMPACT YOU’LL MAKE
The General Manager (GM) will be accountable for developing and executing the business plan and strategies that enable long-term profitable growth within an assigned geography while also managing the resources and expenses necessary to achieve a profitable outcome by successfully implementing the Company ‘Purpose to Promise’. The GM will collaborate with internal business partners to enable product, pricing, technology, services, and human capital to enable this outcome.
What You’ll Bring
- Drives operational excellence accountability within the region by ensuring standards are met and the team has the tools to make decisions to drive their business and meet goals
- Ensures all inventories and fixed assets are maintained and controlled
- Builds and maintains a high-performance team by evaluating and coaching team member performance, supporting appropriate training and development methods, and team building
- Identifies and develops bench strength to ensure succession planning objectives are met
- Provides a motivational environment in which team members exceed performance standards
- Ensures coordinated leadership and consistency between branches within the market
- Develops and maintains annual budget for the assigned market
- Monitors financial reports of the market to ensure budgetary compliance with Regional and Corporate goals
- Updates President with area results during financial review meetings including counter measures to address deficient branches
- Develops and manages the growth and the long-term profitability of Vendor and Customer relationships
- Achieves EBITDA and ROI key financial metrics in their assigned area
- Monitors and actively manages the market area as it relates to financial performance, including but not limited to growth, retention, pipeline management, account management, and profitability for Branches and assigned customers
- Monitors pricing trends against loss trends and plan targets, and work with appropriate partners to develop strategies to achieve pricing targets
- Drives accountability to achieve goals with Branch Managers and other regional leadership
- Participates in the company’s annual operating and long-term strategic planning process. Collaborates with the President to evaluate results; establish a future vision; and develop strategic plans, actions and success metrics
- Provides strategic direction and leadership to the area. Tracks progress on established success metrics
- Maintains up-to-date understanding of industry trends and technical developments that effect market area growth
- Establishes a team culture among the market and holds the team to Reece’s standard of customer satisfaction
- Ensures all customer service complaints are handled effectively and efficiently
- Develops sales strategies for the area in close cooperation with the President and assists Regional Sales Manager in executing the sales strategy to meet growth objectives and sales goals
- Recommends territory configuration as appropriate using prudent business judgement, while maximizing available resources
- Fosters a positive working environment aligned with Reece’s vision and core values
- Holds regular staff meetings with direct reports and participates in area team meetings
- Effectively works in a collaborative manner with different work groups throughout Reece including, but not limited to Finance, People Experience, Marketing, Legal, and IT
YOUR BACKGROUND
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent job experience
- A proven record of leadership (e.g., progression through positions of increasing responsibility) is beneficial
- Good communication skills and the ability to work well with people
Following is a list of physical and mental requirements identified as necessary to achieve the essential functions of this role:
- Attendance – Ability to maintain the scheduled days and hours, including onsite presence at the assigned location as specified.
- Physical Capacities – Lift up to 50 pounds frequently throughout the day, sitting and standing for extended periods. Kneeling, squatting, climbing, and walking
- Operation of Office Equipment — Job requires operation of equipment common to office settings, including computers, copiers, and other office equipment, including Near Vision, Manual Dexterity, and working in proximity to equipment.
- Oral Communication Skills – Speaking, Speech Clarity, and Speech Recognition.
- Written Communication Skills – Writing, Reading and Written Comprehension, and Written Expression.
- Mental Capacities – Achievement/Effort, Active Listening, Adaptability/Flexibility, Analytical Thinking, Attention to Detail, Category Flexibility, Concern for Others, Cooperation and Coordination, Critical Thinking, Deductive Reasoning, Dependability, Independence, Inductive Reasoning, Information Ordering, Initiative, Innovation, Maintenance of Relationships, Integrity, Oral Comprehension and Expression, Problem Sensitivity, Selective Attention, Self-Control, Service Orientation, Social Orientation, Social Perceptiveness, Stress Tolerance, Support, and Time Management.
Our commitment to excellent customer service is just part of our story. We’re also dedicated to supporting our most valuable asset, our associates! One of the ways we do this is by offering a variety of high-quality benefits for our associates and their families.
All Full-time Associates Are Eligible For The Following Benefits
- Medical and Dental Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Short Term Disability
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid Time Off (PTO) - plus paid holidays
- Parental Leave
Voluntary Benefits
- Vision
- Long-term Disability
- Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Additional Voluntary Benefits through Corestream
We're an equal opportunity employer and we welcome diversity and inclusion! Reece USA is an Equal Opportunity Employer— Employer Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, and any other status protected by law.
