Overview
Higgins Coatings is a proud family‐owned business with a national footprint and 75 years of industry leadership. As Branch Manager, you'll take ownership of our Cairns operation—setting the commercial direction, growing revenue and margin, and building trusted relationships with key clients across the region.
Responsibilities
* Full accountability for branch performance—revenue growth, margin, cost control and service delivery.
* Lead, coach and develop a multi‐disciplinary team across sales, operations and administration.
* Grow market share through new business development, tenders and a disciplined key‐account approach.
* Be the face of Higgins in Cairns—strengthening long‐term client, stakeholder and community relationships.
About You
* Proven experience leading and developing a small to mid‐sized team
* Strong consultative (solution) selling in B2B, ideally with longer sales cycles
* Experience in commercial painting, facilities maintenance, construction or a trade‐based services environment (or closely related).
* Comfortable managing multiple jobs/projects at once—planning, prioritising and keeping customers informed.
* Commercial and financial acumen: quoting and tendering, WIP management, contract administration, and confidence reading and actioning P&L results, budgets and targets.
What To Expect From Us
* Structured onboarding and induction so you understand our people, systems, customers and ways of working from day one.
* Ongoing mentoring, leadership support and access to national expertise to help you succeed.
* Competitive base salary + motor vehicle allowance.
* Uncapped incentive scheme that rewards strong commercial performance.
* Genuine career pathways nationally
Higgins Coatings is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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