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Irfan Baba

General Manager
Oakville,ON

Summary

Highly driven General Manager successful at implementing strategic approaches to drive profitability and sales. Recognized for performance excellence in operations and customer care. Successful at motivating, training and developing team members to drive profitability in highly competitive environment.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

General Manager

Mississauga Kia
Mississauga, ON
04.2021 - Current
  • Managed all aspects of daily business operations including budgeting, staffing, scheduling, inventory control, customer service and sales.
  • Monitored financial performance and identified areas for improvement in cost savings and revenue generation.
  • Created a positive work environment by developing team building activities that encouraged collaboration among departments.
  • Analyzed existing processes for effectiveness and developed new systems as needed to enhance overall productivity levels.

General Manager

Team Honda
Milton, Ontario
03.2020 - 03.2022
  • Created a positive work environment by developing team building activities that encouraged collaboration among departments.

Creating the annual dealership sales forecasts by estimating total vehicle sales, gross and operating profits as well as expenses for the new-and-used sales departments.

Hiring and monitoring the performance of the department managers, holding weekly sales meetings and conducting sales training.

General Manager

Meadowvale Honda
Mississauga
09.2015 - 02.2020

Meeting with vehicle sales managers to plan and implement objectives for achieving sales and gross profits.

Overseeing standards for displaying and merchandising both new and used vehicles as well as reviewing and initialing all promotions before they are finalized.

Coordinating the appropriate supply of new and used vehicles and ordering/acquiring vehicle inventory accordingly.

Meeting monthly with the dealership’s general manager to review forecasts and profits for each department.

Working directly with the general manager on making recommendations on both short and long-range advertising plans, sales promotions, staffing needs, lease promotions and compensation plans.

Attending to customer complaints, ensuring that a high level of customer satisfaction is obtained.

Auditing all appraisals of trade-in vehicles.

General Sales Manager

Meadowvale Honda
Mississauga, ON
03.2009 - 08.2015
  • Managed staff of 16 sales representatives and 5 Business Manager and 3 Sales Managers, providing guidance and support as needed.
  • Conducted regular training sessions for new sales personnel.
  • Maintained accurate records of all transactions in the company's CRM system.

Product Advisor

Mississauga Honda
Mississauga, ON
02.2008 - 02.2009
  • Selling Honda Cars

Regional Sales & Marketing Manager

Honda Regional Head Quarters - Corporate- Dubai - Middle East
Dubai, Dubai
01.1998 - 01.2008
  • 1. Product Training
    2. New Model launching
    3. Future Model Evaluation
  • 4. Price Positioning
  • 5. Market Intelligence and feed back to Toyota Motor Corporation-Head quarters -Japan
    6. Dealer Development

Education

MBA - Marketing And Finance

Shivaji University
Satara - India
06.1988

Skills

  • Operations Oversight
  • Advertising and Marketing
  • Project Management
  • Customer Relationship Management

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

General Manager

Mississauga Kia
04.2021 - Current

General Manager

Team Honda
03.2020 - 03.2022

General Manager

Meadowvale Honda
09.2015 - 02.2020

General Sales Manager

Meadowvale Honda
03.2009 - 08.2015

Product Advisor

Mississauga Honda
02.2008 - 02.2009

Regional Sales & Marketing Manager

Honda Regional Head Quarters - Corporate- Dubai - Middle East
01.1998 - 01.2008

MBA - Marketing And Finance

Shivaji University
Irfan BabaGeneral Manager