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Branch Manager

The Hertz Corporation

Syracuse, NYJob$62K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago

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Compensation
$62K/yr
Location
Syracuse, NY
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Valid Driver's License

Job overview

The Branch Manager leads branch operations and employees, overseeing operating performance, customer satisfaction, safety, budgets, service, and vendor relations. The role develops business plans and location strategies, manages reservations and pickups, supports customer issue resolution, and promotes revenue growth. It also includes hiring, training, coaching, performance reviews, and ensuring staff follow corporate policies. An associate’s degree and experience in car rental, hospitality, or tourism are preferred.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Result OrientationTeam LeadershipFinancial AcumenBusiness AcumenCustomer Service ResolutionCommunicationCoachingLabor and Employment LawsOperations ManagementProject ManagementAnalysis and Report ModelingOrganizationCross-Functional CollaborationMicrosoft OfficeExcelPowerPointTime ManagementAdaptability

Qualifications

Must Be 20+Valid Driver's LicenseHigh School Diploma or GEDAssociate's DegreePrevious Management ExperienceCar Rental, Hospitality, or Tourism Experience

Full job description

The Branch Manager represents all Hertz Global brands to our customers, community leaders, business partners, vendors and government entities. This position is primarily responsible for the successful delivery and oversight of the Hertz product to internal and external customers. This position provides overall leadership to all employees with responsibility for overall operating performance, customer satisfaction, positive employee culture, safety, service, budgets, and vendor relations.

The Branch Manager is responsible to have in-depth knowledge of operations, management, logistics, technology and financial disciplines. The leader must have a proven track record for decisive actions backed by analytical thinking, goal-directed leadership and service-oriented performance. This leader will deliver results through leadership, direction, alignment and motivation.

Salary: $62,400/year + incentives, varies based on job performance

What You’ll Do:

  • Develop, monitor, modify and assure compliance with the annual business plan to ensure the profitability of the business unit

  • Direct and organize all reservations and pick-ups, develop relationships with existing vendors such as Lyft, Uber and Pep-boys

  • Develop and implement location strategies to maximize profitability and revenue management opportunities including revenue per unit, etc.

  • Assist staff in the resolution of customer service issues.

  • Ensure a high level of customer service is maintained at or above the area goals

  • Coach all staff and empower staff to engage in problem resolution and customer relations

  • Be active in attending/hosting outside sales meetings or events to promote the company and branch location

  • Continue to increase the market penetration of the branch and increase revenue

  • Develop, communicate, and monitor location and individual objectives and consumer knowledge of brands and services, ensuring that they are in line with overall corporate objectives

  • Effectively interview, hire, train, coach and mentor all Branch staff

  • Complete performance reviews with all Branch staff discuss strengths and development opportunities

  • Hold weekly staff meetings to keep employees motivated and informed of business operations

  • Conduct Monthly Business Reviews with Branch staff to ensure KPI knowledge

  • Maintain an environment of positive employee relations

  • Ensure that all corporate policies and procedures are administered and followed appropriately by all personnel.

What We’re Looking For:

  • Must be at least 20 years old.

  • Valid driver’s license required.

Educational Background:

  • High School Diploma or general equivalency diploma required.

  • Associate’s degree preferred.

  • Previous management experience

  • Experience in car rental, hospitality, or tourism a plus

  • Result orientation with demonstrated history of success

  • Demonstrated ability to direct and motivate teams

  • Financial and business acumen

  • Customer service resolution practices

  • Excellent communication techniques

  • Coaching ability

  • Labor & Employment laws

  • Operations Management

  • Project Management

  • Analysis and report modeling understanding

  • Highly organized.

  • Ability to interface with multi-faceted, cross-functional teams

  • Expert knowledge of Microsoft office suite. Ability to handle complex analysis using Excel. Strong knowledge of PowerPoint.

  • Strong Time Management skills

  • Customer service aptitude - ability to address and resolve customer service issues

  • Flexible and able to adapt to changes

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills

Professional Experience:

  • Previous management experience

  • Experience in car rental, hospitality, or tourism a plus

  • Result orientation with demonstrated history of success

  • Demonstrated ability to direct and motivate teams

Knowledge:

  • Financial and business acumen

  • Customer service resolution practices

  • Excellent communication techniques

  • Coaching ability

  • Labor & Employment laws

  • Operations Management

  • Project Management

  • Analysis and report modeling understanding

Skills:

  • Highly organized.

  • Ability to interface with multi-faceted, cross-functional teams

  • Expert knowledge of Microsoft office suite. Ability to handle complex analysis using Excel. Strong knowledge of PowerPoint.

  • Strong Time Management skills

  • Customer service aptitude - ability to address and resolve customer service issues

  • Flexible and able to adapt to changes

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills

The Hertz Corporation operates the Hertz, Dollar Car Rental, Thrifty Car Rental brands in approximately 9,700 corporate and franchisee locations throughout North America, Europe, The Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide airport general use vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized in the world.

US EEO STATEMENT

At Hertz, we champion and celebrate a culture of diversity and inclusion. We take affirmative steps to promote employment and advancement opportunities. The endless variety of perspectives, experiences, skills and talents that our employees invest in their work every day represent a significant part of our culture – and our success and reputation as a company.

Individuals are encouraged to apply for positions because of the characteristics that make them unique.

EOE, including disability/veteran

How this job compares

Set against the 3,929 open Operations Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$62K/yr
  • New York median$97–138K/yr168 salary ranges
  • US median$105–150K/yr2,197 salary ranges

This rate, $62K, is 47% below the New York median midpoint ($118K) — in the lowest quarter of Operations Management salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 222 open Operations Management jobs in New York and 3,929 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
Operations Management postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 7 years (2,977 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 1,425 of the 3,929 open Operations Management jobs (36%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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