About Us
Vospers is a family run business and leading Southwest motor dealer group that believes in the importance of our people. That's why we offer a supportive working environment, career prospects, and great benefits, including:
- 30 days annual leave (including bank holidays) increasing with length of service + a paid day off for your birthday!
- Full range of motoring discounts on MOTs, servicing, sales, and parts
- Access to an online platform with discounts across multiple retailers
- Paid sickness scheme
- Full range of employee assistance programmes and support services
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Professional development via our Motorv8 and Vospers 5 training schemes
- Manufacturer-specific training
- Generous staff and customer referral scheme
Job Title
Aftersales Manager
The Role
The main purpose of a Vospers Service Manager is to maximise service department profitability through the development of a professional and efficient team, while ensuring that each customer receives exemplary customer service.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure the service department achieves budget objectives by continual examination of accounts, operating controls and composite figures to initiate improvements and corrective action where variations occur.
- To operate the department efficiently, this will be measured by productivity and utilization, labour efficiency and KPIS.
- Ensure all daily, weekly and monthly reports are drawn from the dealer management systems to enable the monitoring of the accounting practices.
- Ensure all business transactions are made within Vospers Company guidelines.
- Continually develop knowledge relating to competition within the market place, especially within the dealer area of responsibility.
- To ensure premises, equipment and other assets are controlled and used effectively and efficiently.
- Promote and explain Customer Viewpoint standards to your team ensuring the department excels in customer satisfaction.
- Motivate staff through positive leadership and frequent appraisal meetings to determine clear and obtainable objectives.
- Encourage and endorse joint identification of training and support needs, confirming all personnel are trained to a level so they are able to carry out their work in an efficient and professional manner.
- Provide coaching when required if individual goals are not met, helping to continually guide and control the effectiveness of the team.
- Communicate important results, ensuring that all staff are kept up to date on department progress and success.
- To improve the quality of customer service and retention through enhancing facilities, improving personnel skills and high standards of quality workmanship.
- To ensure all customer complaints are dealt with promptly, courteously and sympathetically and to maintain an accurate written record of all complaints and actions taken to restore customer satisfaction, and ensure the same type of complaint does not reoccur.
- To address issues relating to participation in customer service reporting. Define measures to prevent reoccurrence, set targets and allocate specific responsibilities, and to monitor progress to completion.
- Ensure customer satisfaction through continuous quality control checks and support all Technicians in diagnoses and difficult work.
Location
Marsh Mills, Plymouth
Salary
Dependent on experience and qualifications, to be discussed at interview
Hours
Monday to Friday
Care - Accountability – Performance - Respect - Integrity
We are proud that so many of our people stay with us and develop their careers at Vospers over the long term. Over 100 of our staff have completed between 10 and 40-years service with the company. At Vospers, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in Vospers workforce.
Vospers are a Disability Confident and Youth Friendly Employer
No terminology in this advert is intended to be deemed discriminatory. We are happy to accept applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, gender, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.
If you wish to discuss any aspect of this job vacancy, please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Vospers HR team at hr@vospers.com or 01752 636342
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