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Service Advisor

Riverside Consultancy Gloucester, GL1 1AH, GB
Up to £30,000 per year
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Job Details

Hours: Monday to Saturday
Contract: Full-Time
Experience: Previous experience in a Service Advisor role
Department: Service & Support

Job Description

Service Advisor

  • Rygor Auto: Gloucester (Mercedes-Benz Van and Truck)
  • £30,000 per annum plus bonus opportunities.
  • 42.5 hours: 08:00 to 17:00, Monday to Friday. Alternate Saturdays 08:00 to 13:00.

Your Role

Rygor Auto is looking for a dedicated Service Advisor to join their team in Gloucester. If you provide exceptional customer service and can confidently and efficiently maximise service and repair bookings, ensuring all resources required in completing the work are available and on schedule – this is the role for you!

Day to day you will be:

  • Dealing with customers and ensuring customer satisfaction.
  • Utilise workshop loading and ensure it is up to date.
  • Regularly and proactively keep customers up to date with progress on their vehicle
  • Booking in vehicles. Ensuring appointments are convenient for the customer and department, in line with the workshop capacity.
  • Identify the customer requirements and where possible, supply an accurate fully inclusive costing.
  • Produce accurate job cards, invoices, estimates and related information.
  • Provide customers with full explanations of work carried out, making the most of any additional selling opportunities.
  • Produce warranty job cards in line with the manufacturers policy and procedures.
  • Accurately record all work requirements and identify retail, warranty, internal and non-chargeable repairs.
  • Liaise with the Parts Department to ensure availability of parts.

️ Skills & Behaviours Required for this Role:

  • Communication – This role is pivotal in ensuring that all stakeholders are accurately informed. This may include providing customers with updates on their vehicles or notifying the Parts Team about the availability of necessary parts.
  • Time Management – When working to deadlines, being able to manage your time effectively, is essential. Strong organisation skills are key to this.
  • Resilience - A resilient person is someone who has strong coping skills and can draw on these when life presents challenges.
  • Motivation - To ensure personal and team success, being motivated is essential.

About You

You will have exceptional customer service skills and deliver the highest quality customer experience. You will approach this role with a commercial mind, actively selling after-sales services in a customer-orientated manner (i.e.: service contracts), ensuring the workshop is working to full capacity by effectively scheduling customer bookings.

You will be committed to taking responsibility for managing the customer service journey, updating customers on repair times and status, estimates and gaining approval for additional work.

This role will be a great fit for you if:

  • You have exemplary communication skills via email, telephone, and face-to-face.
  • Excellent organisation and administration skills.
  • You have previous working experience in administration and/or office environments.
  • You can organise and manage your time efficiently to meet deadlines.
  • Previous experience in a Service Advisor role.
  • Understanding of Kerridge.

Our Values & Behaviours

Rygor are looking for incredible team members who share their values and can add to their culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals.

Rewarding
I am grateful. I am courageous. I am curious.

  • We love to say “thank you” to our team members, and we promise to let you know when you have done a great job. We will make sure you feel rewarded and valued, every step of the way. We all value our customers and go the extra mile to set standards for them – every single time they visit. You are a natural helper and have exemplary manners, you enjoy saying a simple “thanks” to your colleagues.

Reliable
I am honest. I am attentive. I am trustworthy.

  • Our customers can depend on us to keep their vehicles on the road with exceptional service, and our team members can trust us to set standards for them through open and honest communication, training and support, and personal and professional development. You are dedicated to achieving high quality standards via being process driven and a critical thinker.

Respectful
I am inclusive. I am resilient. I am kind.

  • We are considerate and kind to our team, the definition of being a true team-player. We promote the importance of equality and diversity, the wellbeing of our team members, and we are respectful in the way we speak and act towards others. You respect and adhere to safe working practices and have good interpersonal and organisational skills.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)

At Rygor Auto, we're committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We are an award-winning community of professionals from all walks of life, and we believe our unique qualities should be celebrated. It's essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise.

Benefits for you

  • Working for an official Great Place to Work™️ and UK Best Workplace for three years running!
  • Working for a Best UK Workplace for Wellbeing.
  • Working with our award-winning team – we have been named 'Service Provider of the Year' at the WhatVan? Awards 2022 and winners at the IOIC Employee Engagement Awards.
  • Recipients of the Bronze Award under the Armed Forces Covenant.
  • Access to 100s of employee perks on Perkbox.
  • Auto-enrolment pension.
  • A day off for your Birthday.
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay policies.
  • Access to our wellness programme and Employee Assistance Programmes, including WeCare from Canada Life (EAP and 24HR Online GP access and second Medical Opinion).
  • Mental Health First Aiders.
  • Reward and recognition programmes, including our annual Rygor Group Awards
  • Annual appraisals programme and progression opportunities.
  • Manufacturer training and access to our in-house training hub.
  • Long service recognition.
  • Branded uniform
  • Four times death in service benefit.
  • Ongoing investment in company facilities and working environments.
  • 23 days of annual leave per year plus Bank Holidays

Our Process

When applying please include a full current CV with your current salary outlined and notice period, once this has been reviewed, we will be in touch to advise if your application will be progressed through to the next stage. The Riverside Resourcing & Consultancy recruitment process reflects our obligations under relevant UK legislation. Whilst all applications are carefully considered, we are only able to progress applications from candidates who have the right to work in the United Kingdom.

Managing your data

We care about your personal data. The General Data Protection Regulation provides you with more control and by applying to us, we consider this to be an agreement to process your personal data in support of our recruitment and selection process. Your application data is held within our secure applicant tracking system through hireful - you will be given access to a candidate zone in this system where you can monitor and manage your application and see status updates. We will communicate with you, by email or phone, throughout the recruitment process so that we can keep you updated and inform you of your application progress.

Additional Benefits

  • Company Pension
  • Death in Service Cover

About the Company

You will have exceptional customer service skills and deliver the highest quality customer experience. You will approach this role with a commercial mind, actively selling after-sales services in a customer-orientated manner (i.e.: service contracts), ensuring the workshop is working to full capacity by effectively scheduling customer bookings.

You will be committed to taking responsibility for managing the customer service journey, updating customers on repair times and status, estimates and gaining approval for additional work.

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