Branch Manager at Air Liquide

Date: 5 hours ago
City: Saguenay, QC
Contract type: Full time
How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

At Air Liquide, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

Air Liquide is Hiring for a Branch Manager

  • This position will be located at our Jonquière facilities


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Job Description Summary: As Branch Manager (Jonquiere), you will be the cornerstone of our local success, orchestrating daily operations to meet and exceed our sales and margin targets. You will lead a committed team, promoting exceptional customer service, rigorous inventory management, and impeccable compliance with safety and regulatory standards. Your leadership will be essential to inspiring and developing our talent, while optimizing our logistics resources and continuously improving our processes. If you are a leader passionate about sales, growth, and operational excellence, this opportunity is for you!

Key Responsibilities:

Lead day-to-day operations: Manage retail sales, security, warehousing, and distribution.

Develop store sales and growth: Contribute to the development and execution of sales and merchandising plans, coordinate promotional activities, and manage internal sales and profit margins.

Customer service management: Ensure professional and consistent customer service for all inquiries (products, prices, technical information). Support the sales force and collaborate with external sales to ensure order accuracy and delivery tracking.

Manage inventory: Oversee product stock, dynamic receipts and deployments, and conduct physical inventories.

Ensure operational excellence: Monitor ERP reports, perform daily cash reconciliations, and oversee employee training.

Manage expenses: Control branch operating expenses and work with corporate accounts receivable.

Comply with standards: Adhere to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for medical gases and medical devices.

Personnel management: Manage and motivate a diverse team (counter sales, warehouse, drivers, customer service).

Continuous improvement: You will participate in improving ways of doing things while respecting our processes, be on the lookout for opportunities to be efficient, and take corrective action when necessary.

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Required qualifications:

Education: High school diploma or equivalent. College diploma or bachelor's degree preferred.

Experience: Proven experience in branch operations management and sales. At least five (5) years of experience in the sale and/or distribution of gas and welding products or similar industrial products.

Proven leadership and team management skills, in addition to (2) years of experience, are required.

Preferred qualifications:

Strong customer focus and ability to negotiate effectively.

Analytical mindset and vision focused on continuous improvement.

Previous experience with ERP and Salesforce (an asset).

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

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