Funeral Home General Manager

3 weeks ago

Saskatoon, Canada SCI Shared Resources, LLC Full time

Our associates celebrate lives. We celebrate our associates.

Consider the possibilities of joining a Great Place to Work

Provide guidance and direction to location leadership in order to effectively and profitably manage the business, finances, marketing, customer growth, and people resources. Provide direction and assistance with short-term planning as well as the achievement of annual sales revenue, production targets, and Profit & Loss (P&L) goals. Foster a sense of ownership in the location and pride in the staff, manage costs in a disciplined manner, and encourage profitable case volume growth. Manages location management at multiple locations and multiple lines of business within the Funeral Home industry.

**JOB RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Business and Financial Management**
- Work with Market Leadership to understand long-term and short-term business goals and operational priorities in order to provide guidance to location leadership
- Provides advice, guidance, and approves annual business plans, budgets, financial, production, and revenue goals
- Accountable for monitoring and achieving annual financial goals within Area of Responsibility (AOR)
- Responsible for transferring financial knowledge and how daily activities impact financial outcomes to location leadership to facilitate making appropriate sustainable business decisions
- Approve expenditures and invoices
- Provides marketing, advertising, community, and customer guidance to location leadership
- Leverages corporate and market resources to expand brand and product awareness in order to increase sales and market share
- Develop and implement plans to improve customer satisfaction index and on-line community reviews
- Resolves complex problems providing resolution guidance to location leadership and empowering accountability
- Assure the location’s operating practices comply with applicable federal & state regulations and Company policies
- Assure safety, quality control, and compliance standards are adhered to

**Collaboration and Communication**
- Collaborate with colleagues and market leadership to remove operational barriers, encourage ideas, and business or operational enhancements
- Work with Market Leadership and Corporate Departments on product, process, and technology needs and improvements
- Develop and implement communication plans for key initiatives and change management
- Oversee implementation of initiatives and manage change providing leadership and guidance as needed.
- Responsible for communicating long-term strategy and annual goals to location leadership; assist staff with further cascading and messaging

**People Development**
- Develop a strong, trusting, empowered, and reliable team
- Understand team members career aspirations and provide assignments to develop skills and/or close gaps
- Constructively address issues and provide tangible and appropriate feedback
- Develop frontline supervisors’ proactive and collaborative management style in order to increase employee engagement and minimize turnover
- Monitor training and licensing requirements ensuring staff is re-trained/licensed prior to expiration
- Establishes pay, recommends pay increases, special pays, and career advancements
- Discipline staff as necessary
- Writes development plans to close behavior or skill gaps
- Collaborates with Human Resources throughout discipline, development, and termination processes
- Recommends and discusses terminations with Market Leadership

**MINIMUM** **Requirements**

**Education**
- High School Diploma or equivalent required
- Technical schooling diploma Funeral Services/Mortuary Science preferred
- Pursuing an Associate’s Degree in Finance, Marketing, Business or related discipline strongly preferred

**Certification/License**
- Applicable Provincial Funeral Director licensure required

**Experience**
- At least eleven (11) years industry experience with progressively increased customer-facing responsibilities with
- At least six (6) years experience managing people and effectively managing budgets and expense control required

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**
- Knowledge of industry competitive pricing, demographic patterns, and market competition
- Knowledgeable in Financial and Business acumen
- Professional interpersonal skills as well as cultural sensitivity and tactfulness to interact with a variety of cultures and language barriers
- Proficient in MS Office suite including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

**Work Hours**
- Working beyond “standard” hours as the need arises

Postal Code: S7H 0S5

Category (Portal Searching): Operations

Job Location: CA-SK - Saskatoon

Job Profile ID: F00279

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