Dealer Sales Manager/Outside Sales - Dealer Sales Manager Exeter Finance Employee Review

1.0
12 Jan 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Worked with some cool teammates.

Cons

If you have any degree of talent take it somewhere else. The level of micro tracking and management is on another level. It’s obvious Exeter has zero trust in their outside field sales team. If they could deploy drones to follow their reps in the field they would. Company car is GPS tracked. They use the GeoTab data to track when you leave your house, when you get home, how many visits, duration of visits, and to charge you for personal use of the vehicle. Office days are frowned upon and are limited to 1 per month. They require an average of 7 visits per day regardless of traffic, dealer location, etc. The focus is on how many dealer visits vs building relationships with dealers. How can you build anything on a 5 minute visit because your worried about seeing enough dealers for they day? Monthly review with your manager consists of him looking at the data, as in GeoTab and CRM Entries (SF and GeoTab are linked) and interrogating you on days that had light visits, entries or both. Manager is so distracted with other company projects that he forgets some of those days were already discussed. Very frustrating to have a manager who’s passion and focus is not sales. Zero focus on results as in new dealer enrollments, application count trend, loan volume trend. You have zero autonomy in this role unlike with other finance companies. Pay is low. 100k is a pipe dream with the way they set goals in order to earn bonus.

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Exeter Finance Response
7y
Thanks for your feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to provide it and are sorry you don’t feel you had a positive experience working for Exeter. We know working in the field as the face of the company carries a lot of responsibility. It’s a tough job that requires a mix of building relationships with meeting regulatory requirements with driving superior results. We’ll be sure to share your comments with our leadership team to make sure we do all we can to create an environment for success for our sales team. We wish you the best in your future endeavors.

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Exeter Finance Response
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Thanks for the thoughtful feedback — we really appreciate it. We’re glad to hear the support from management and the team has made a positive impact during your time here. We also appreciate the honest insight around scheduling and family time, and we’ll continue working to create the best experience possible for our employees. Thanks for being part of Exeter!
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Exeter Finance Response
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It sounds like you got to experience a lot of what makes Exeter a great place to work — flexibility, trust, and the chance to grow your career. We appreciate the real-world perspective on workload distribution and system challenges. The people doing the work every day often have the best view of where improvements can make the biggest impact. Thanks for sharing your experience with us, and we wish you all the best moving forward.
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