What are the responsibilities and job description for the Field Services Area Manager position at Best Buy?
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.
This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work some days on-site at the Best Buy location listed on this posting and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process. Please note that this role covers the Long Island and Brooklyn areas and you will need to reside within a commutable distance to these areas.
What you’ll do
This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work some days on-site at the Best Buy location listed on this posting and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process. Please note that this role covers the Long Island and Brooklyn areas and you will need to reside within a commutable distance to these areas.
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. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Generous employee discount
- Financial savings and retirement resources
- Support for your physical and mental well-being
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.
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.