Job Description
Description:
Parts Specialist
12+ months with
Atlanta GA or Rialto, CA (Hybrid 2-3 days per week)
Notes:
- Candidate must be located in ATL or Rialto CA
- Looking for recent college grads
- Resume must be well written with no grammar or punctuation errors
- Looking for recent college grad with great Analytical skills, professionalism, able to work in an office environment.
Position overview:
- Parts Business Operations is a core profitability, customer satisfaction and dealer efficiency driver for Client and its network of authorized dealer franchise partners.
- Key responsibilities include supply chain management, genuine parts sales, dealer partner support and communication management for the parts business in the US market.
- This center of competency facilitates the flow of genuine parts to authorized dealers, who sell to retail customers, independent repair facilities, and collision repair facilities.
- Parts Operations seeks a contractor to help manage a rapidly growing parts operation that serves a growing fleet of vehicles operating on US roadways.
- This person must be self-motivated, capable of operating independently, and willing to be flexible in the handling of priority parts projects that may change on a daily basis.
- As a support function to a team of existing Parts Support Specialists, this person will support dealers on parts order specifying and supply chain related topics.
- Additionally, this role will be responsible for special projects, and administrative tasks necessary to keep the supply chain running to dealers.
- This includes but is not limited to the following; management of dealers’ parts transactions, ETA’s has and order management.
Primary responsibilities:
- Own the dealer support process for your area of responsibility – manage to dealer inquiries and tickets in a timely manner, providing a high level of service to Dealer partners.
- Topics include but are not limited to: Parts availability, parts shipment ETAs, parts ordering, collaboration with parts warehouse colleagues, priority order management (VOR), damage claims, process guidance etc.
- Process parts trades between dealers, properly exchanging parts and performing financial reconciliation.
- Manage dealer support tickets to a high level of service, reasonable time to close with resolution to dealer partner, supporting customer satisfaction.
- Managing escalation with clear and timely communication with the appropriate parties at Client, as needed to resolve.
- Administer inbound parts supply and ensure proper allocation to dealers, for campaigns and recalls requiring parts
- Manage special parts returns (parts withdrawals) from dealers and warehouses to ensure that all affected parts ship as directed within the process and timeline for each campaign.
- Manage to relevant KPI’s specific to parts operations and parts operations support responsibilities, ensuring high level of service and accountability.
- Perform special projects as needed. Reporting and ad hoc analysis as needed.
- Flexible to market needs with a high degree of curiosity, always looking to improve process, workflow, which lead to a high level of service to our franchise dealer partners.
Qualifications
Education:
- College degree in Business, Management, Supply Chain, and Data Analytics, or the equivalent education and experience
Experience:
- Looking for recent college grad w/ professional and analytical skills to work in an office environment.
Skills:
- Customer focus and ability to advocate for dealers in the resolution of issues
- Software proficiency – Excel required, SAP and or BW a plus
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Initiative - ability to demonstrate competency managing project or program from ideation to introduction and operation
- An entrepreneurial spirit that creatively solves problems and delivers solutions
- Ability to work cross-functionally, effectively relaying information to various stakeholders, especially field employees and dealers
- Excellent oral and written communications skills
Job Tags
For contractors, Flexible hours, 2 days per week, 3 days per week,