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GW Marketing Services is the Northeast’s leading automotive dealership, franchise, and consulting services provider. We are seeking a qualified entrepreneurial-minded Marketing & Financial Analyst to be responsible for gathering and analyzing relevant market data and financial data to enhance our deal strategies, business valuations, and marketing efforts.
This individual should be a motivated self-starter, interested in helping to shape and grow the business across all facets – strategy, marketing, business development and operations. The candidate will work closely with the President and his experienced staff to encompass all aspects of revenue generation.
This part-time position has potential for full-time employment. For a motivated, knowledgeable candidate it could advance to a supervisor role.
Primary Responsibilities
- Dealership Business Valuation (Appraisal) Package Support: Work with President and independently manage the analysis of dealership financial information, client communications, and the researching and drafting of dealership appraisal packages which includes loading key data into spreadsheet templates, doing initial financial analysis, creating key charts and graphs, and printing/publishing final output. A goal and opportunity here is to take the development of these business appraisal packages to a new level using current publishing tools and graphics – new look and feel, easier to produce and more digital.
- Market Consolidation Solutions Support: Assist in research and development of data-driven business scenarios related to market consolidation, used to assist dealers in coping with dealership franchise contract issues – for example, helping to show strength or weakness of their local market or helping show growth patterns or other market trends, etc.
- Marketplace Research and Analysis: Conduct industry research to support dealership business appraisal development and to support other marketing efforts promoting our business services as well as our businesses for sale.
- Marketing Data Management Support: Assist in the continual maintenance and improvement of the company’s candidate and dealership database and market data archives. Coordinate with and support our Marketing Director with upgrades and/or redesigns of the database, its reports and the market data archives to enable us to more effectively perform our marketing and dealership sales campaigns.
Experience & Skills
- Business Acumen: Must be an enterprising, motivated self-starter, able to quickly learn the intricacies of this multi-faceted automotive dealership mergers & acquisitions and franchise consulting business. Love of the automobile world would be helpful.
- Process-Oriented: Must have the ability to quickly understand current processes, identify needs for future growth, and develop and implement process improvement. Must be able to translate business strategy into execution and change
- Detail, Communication, and Development Skills: Must have at least three (3) years of business experience, see the “big picture,” be organized, have excellent oral and written communication skills, content development skills, and be self-motivated, creative, and detail oriented. Financial and marketing analysis experience is crucial.
- Technical Skills: Must be technically capable, including but not limited to general knowledge of database technologies, (business employs Sesame Database Management Software) to demonstrate the ability and initiative to use database information to drive sales and generate leads. Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Publisher) is required. Knowledge of MS PowerPoint, Desktop Publishing and QuickBooks is desired. Experience with WordPerfect and QuattroPro is a bonus.
Substantial guidance will be offered by our experienced, professional staff. We will discuss all questions, opinions, recommendations, and solutions regarding the position!
Apply on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2764981514/
Or if you prefer, email your resume to Gordon Wisbach at Gordon@gwmarketingservices.com.