Field Services Area Manager - Wilmington, NC

Best Buy Co Inc

Columbia, SC

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Analysis Skills, Capacity Management, Coaching, Consumer Electronics, Customer Experience, Customer Support/Service, Driver's License, Incentive Programs, Licensing, Logistics, On Site Support, Operational Strategy, People Management, Record Keeping, Relationship Management, Safety Standards, Sales, Time Management, Trend Analysis, Warehousing, Willing to Travel, Workforce Management
LOCATION
Columbia, SC
POSTED
6 days ago

As a Field Services Area Manager, you'll be responsible for all store-based installation and delivery services in your designated region. You'll directly lead Best Buy and Geek Squad employees while managing relationships with a network of third-party teams that fulfill work in the home. You'll build a strong employee culture that leads to favorable customer and business results.

What you'll do

  • Ensure operational consistency, strategic alignment, and performance accountability

  • Build and maintain an exceptional team culture centered around engagement and belonging

  • Oversee headcount planning, hiring plans and capacity management, including scheduling, attendance and PTO approvals

  • Analyze reporting to understand business trends and develop action plans to achieve desired results

  • Set clear expectations for your team, work with them on site and provide regular 1-on-1 coaching

  • Ensure timely response to escalations and create solutions to preserve the customer experience

Basic qualifications

  • 2 years of experience as a supervisor or manager

  • 2 years of sales, installation, logistics, operations, warehouse, inventory or customer service experience

  • Ability to travel overnight approximately 25% of the year

  • Current, valid driver's license

  • Must be at least 21 years old

  • Have and maintain a driving record which meets Best Buy safety standards (e.g. minimal number of violations/accidents, etc.)

  • Acquire and maintain any state or local licensing, as required, within 90 days of hire

Preferred qualifications

  • Consumer electronics delivery, repair or installation experience

  • Experience in delivery, transportation, distribution or logistics

  • Experience with warehouse management systems

  • Experience managing a remote workforce

  • Associate degree or higher in business, logistics or related fields

What's in it for you

We're committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:

  • Competitive pay

  • Great employee discount

  • Financial savings and retirement resources

  • Support for your physical and mental well-being

Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.

Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary.

For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.

About us

As part of the Best Buy team, you'll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life - in our stores, online and in customers' homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We're committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.

About the Company

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Best Buy Co Inc

Energetic teams. Fun atmosphere. Exciting opportunities.

That’s what you’ll find at Best Buy. Care to join us?

You can feel the energy here. And we’re not talking about the hum of electronics (there’s that, too). We’re talking about people.

Best Buy employees are friendly, enthusiastic and willing to help you succeed. Sure, we’re a big company — the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer — but that doesn’t stop us from having fun while doing what we love: bringing technology into people’s lives in meaningful ways.

When you join our team, we consider you part of our Best Buy family. And what you do here every day will support our goal to make people’s lives better, easier and more enjoyable through the great products we sell.

So if you’d like using your talents to help improve people’s lives, bring it! We’d love to have your energy here.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1966
WEBSITE
http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/