General Manager

Are you a driven, forward-thinking leader ready to take on a high-potential opportunity? We are seeking a General Manager to lead the Dealers Auto Auction (DAA) operation in the Little Rock market—an area rich with opportunity and primed for growth.

This is not a maintenance role. This is a build, lead, and win opportunity for someone energized by challenge, motivated by results, and passionate about people, customers, and performance.

About The Role

Our auction runs weekly and serves a strong base of dealer partners and financial institutions, with deep community ties and a tenured team. We’re looking for a leader who can respect the foundation while driving transformation—bringing fresh energy, new ideas, and a relentless focus on growth. You will be responsible for the full operation, including sales performance, commercial account development, employee leadership, and delivering an exceptional customer experience grounded in our mission—“Excellence in Every Interaction.”

What You’ll Do

• Drive Revenue Growth: Build and execute a strategic plan to increase dealer participation, consignment volume, and lane performance
• Business Development: Actively pursue new dealer relationships, OEM partnerships, and commercial/fleet remarketing opportunities
• Lead the Team: Inspire, coach, and develop a tenured team—balancing respect for legacy with accountability for results
• Operational Excellence: Ensure smooth, efficient auction operations across all lanes while continuously improving processes
• Customer Experience: Champion a culture where every interaction—internal and external—reflects professionalism, urgency, and care
• Market Leadership: Establish the auction as a go-to marketplace in the region through visibility, relationships, and reputation
  
  

Who You Are

• A tenacious, hands-on leader who thrives in turnaround or growth environments
• A relationship builder who knows how to win business and keep it
• Entrepreneurial-minded, always looking for the next opportunity to grow volume and market share
• Comfortable challenging the status quo while honoring what works
• Passionate about building a culture where employees feel valued, accountable, and inspired Why This Opportunity
• Lead a business with untapped potential in a strong and growing market
• Make a visible, lasting impact on people, performance, and community presence
• Join an organization committed to Excellence in Every Interaction—not just as a phrase, but as a daily standard
• Competitive compensation, performance incentives, and leadership autonomy
• Relocation package
  
  

If you’re ready to build something meaningful, lead from the front, and create momentum where others see obstacles, we want to hear from you.

Qualifications

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 5+ years of leadership experience in the auto auction industry (GM or Assistant GM level preferred)
• Proven success in a dealer-focused auction environment with multi-lane operations
• Strong background in sales, business development, and commercial/fleet remarketing
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams through change and deliver measurable results
  
  

CHARACTERISTICS

• Strong understanding of financial statements/P&L Intellectual agility
• Philosophical and strategic leader aligned with mission and values of Company.
• Committed
• Highly principled
• Collaborative – open to suggestions
• Unafraid to ask for help.
• Uses positive interactions & fosters positive and safe work environment.
• Enables subordinates to do their best work.
• Holistically understands the big picture.
• Thinks long term and has ability to execute short term goals towards long term gains.
• Honest to a fault, yet tactful
• Respectful
• Empathetic but understands reasonable limits.
• Highly creative
• Generally cheerful and kind
• Creative Versatile
• Focused
  
  

Skills & Qualifications

• Responsible for one or more departments or business lines.
• Typically reports to a senior executive officer (e.g., VP, Owner) T
• ypically directs exempt/professional and/or non-exempt employees.
• Directs more complex and varied work.
• Has full budget responsibilities for respective department(s) or business line(s).
• Recommends and authorizes policy implementation for the department or program.
• Has full management responsibility for staff direct and indirect reports.
• Approves candidates for hire.
• Conducts training of others
• Conducts performance appraisals of direct reports.
• Recommends salary actions.
• Recommends termination of employees
• Assigns tasks or responsibilities to others.
• Monitors work performance
• Administers disciplinary actions.
• Approves salary actions.
• pproves termination of employees
• Extensive contact with others and usually involves several areas within the business and/or with community, government, business leaders, and customers.
• Typically handles highly sensitive and/or confidential information.
• Anticipates customer needs and regularly motivates or influences others to deliver customer service excellence.
• May troubleshoot highly sensitive or confidential issues.
• Personally ensures problem resolution.
• Identifies barriers to effective customer service and sets customer service standards.
• Establishes a customer feedback system and holds self-accountable for customer service excellence within the department.
• Tasks and responsibilities require integration of diverse functional areas and involve variables that are more abstract.
• Work is substantially complex and varied, and requires the interpretation of technical and detailed guidelines, policies and procedures in combination.
• Position requires high level responsibility for budget, revenues, and/or expenditure authority.
• Develops strategic direction, goals, plans and policies for an area of responsibility.
• Sets broad objectives and is accountable for overall results in respective area of responsibility.
• Authority to make independent decisions on matters of significance.
• Requires high degree of independent judgment and problem solving of complex problems.