Parts Advisor - Bicester
1. Salary: Between £28-31,000 per annum, pending experience, plus bonuses earned (£3,000 per annum).
2. Hours: 44.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday shift rota with 1 in 2 Saturdays, 8:00am-12:00pm.
3. Benefits: Enhanced annual leave allowance, optional overtime, free MOT tests, further technical training, and the opportunity to work with an award-winning family-run business operating for over 50 years.
Our client, a large franchise-approved commercial vehicle dealership in the Bicester region, requires an experienced and professional Parts Advisor to join their busy Parts Department.
Reporting to the Parts Manager and working as part of a friendly team, as a Parts Advisor, you be responsible for dealing with trade and retail customers regarding parts enquiries and sales, ensuring that all parts orders are accurately identified, promptly picked, and dispatched to the highest standard of customer service. You will primarily be working on the front of house, dealing with customers face-to-face, via email, and over the phone. You will also be required to carry out parts stock control and supply parts to our client’s Vehicle Technicians in the workshop.
In order to be eligible, you will ideally live within a reasonable commutable distance of Bicester and will need to hold recent or current experience working as a Parts Advisor within a franchise-approved automotive dealership. Any experience working with commercial vehicle parts would be highly advantageous; however is non-essential. You will also need to be IT literate, given that you will work daily with an electronic parts catalogue system, hold a UK driving license with minimal points, and have strong customer service/sales skills with a friendly and charismatic telephone manner.
What's in it for you?
For your hard work as a Parts Advisor, our client is offering:
4. Starting salary between £28-31,000 per annum pending experience and current earnings.
5. Performance-related bonus scheme of up to £3,000 per annum.
6. Overtime, subject to availability, paid at an enhanced rate of time and a half.
7. Full in-house and manufacturer-approved training.
8. 22 days annual holiday allowance plus the 8 bank holidays, with your holiday allowance increasing over the length of service.
9. Workplace pension scheme.
10. Various additional company benefits including free MOT tests, referral and wellbeing programmes, vehicle salary sacrifice scheme, cycle to work scheme, and staff uniform, amongst others.
11. Opportunity to work with an award-winning family-run business operating for over 50 years.
12. 44.5 hours per week Monday to Friday over three different shifts (7:00am-4:00pm, 8:00am-5:00pm, and 9:00am-6:00pm) with 30 minutes daily unpaid lunch break.
13. 1 in 2 Saturdays 8:00am-12:00pm.
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