Experienced automotive professional skilled in managing service operations to boost customer satisfaction and dealership performance. With a proven track record in leading teams, optimising workflows, and maintaining quality standards, I excel in building strong customer relationships and resolving complex issues. My blend of leadership, technical expertise, and customer-focused service makes me a versatile and highly skilled professional.
- Lead Service team / Run payroll (107 staff)
- Lead staff meetings
- Interviews, onboarding, organising pre-employment medicals/police checks, new starter training plans & rosters
- Monitor service performance KPI's
- Monitor customer satisfaction reports and trends (NPS)
- Listen and action customer complaints or staff issues
- Complete audits – DERAP (Dealer Environmental Risk Awareness Program), TFL (Toyota for Life), Toyota Service Excellence, Lexus Dealer Standards, Mahindra Dealer Standards
- Monitor job quality through comeback reports or complaints
- Monitor rework, policy and department finials (profit, loss, expenses)
- Help develop targeted marketing offers
- Create/Review SOP's
- Carry out staff performance reviews (3m, 5m, 6m, 12m)
- Track and monitor TSHOP Tyres (Tyres4u, Bridgestone, Michelin, Goodyear, Toyo,Yokohama)
- Compress workshop board to fit more jobs in daily
- Monitor and review SAARS reporting (Efficiency, On time arrival, On time delivery, Daily CPUS, Open Ro's)
- Monitor TSA Toyota retention targets
- Mahindra Warranty Clerk
- Kinto champion, FIR champion, Tundra champion
- Submit and track insurance claims for the dealership
- Submit work cover claims
- Carry out health and safety inspections of the department
- Manage Dealer Principals vehicles (40 vehicles)
- Organise Rally vehicles to ensure they are race ready/ organise Pre/Post Rally checks
- Measure and recorded team activity daily in Microsoft Teams
- Check workshop board to ensure no errors or issues
- Provide feedback and training to the team and addressed specific errors with individual team members
- Manage resources
- Conduct daily follow-ups with the team, reviewing KPIs and assigned daily tasks
- Listen to phone calls for quality control
- Track upsells for commissions
- Train Ingham and Charters Towers Toyota staff
Service Advisor
- Confirm Repair order with the customer
- Complete FIR Diagnostic sheet
- Suggest up-sells on items such as wheel alignments or tyres
- Monitor the work progress and notify customers of any changes
- Invoice out ensuring to add technician notes & recommendations
- Follow up OOW submissions and Open CEs
Warranty Clerk
- Process warranty claims for Mike Carney Toyota, Ingham Toyota and Charters Towers Toyota
- Carry out internal audits and follow up on any corrective actions
- Liaise with Pioneer, Denso,WHD, Doran's
- Raise claims for transport and liaise with Hertz and Kinto
- Tag and store all warranty parts as requested by TMCA
Fleet Clerk
- Seek fleet approvals, raise orders & finale orders– via phone, email, online portals (1link, LeasePlan, Smartfleet, WEXPAY)
- Liaising with fleet companies (Smart Fleet, Lease Plan, SG Fleet, Fleet Partners,Fleet Card, Custom Fleet, Fleet Plus, NLC, Qfleet, Toyota Fleet Lease, Maxxia, Summit Fleet, Remserv, Orix, Interleasing, MotorPass)
- Seeking fleet approval for tyres, Raising BS Dans orders
- Utilising after pay and zip pay for customers
- Conducting Fleet labour rate reviews yearly
- Update SAP with Data Integrity
- Allocate and manage the bus driver schedule and wash list schedule
Quotes Clerk
- Creating customer estimates that includes parts, labour,misc
- Contact customers via phone call or podium to upsell
- Seek fleet authority for any extra items that are required
- Updating workshop daily upsells spreadsheet daily on Excel/Microsoft teams
Pre Delivery Coordinator
− Once admin orders are raised, book vehicle in accordingly with sublets and workshop
− Update PDC regularly
− Communicate with sales staff to ensure that they know the progress of all vehicles.
− Liaise with ARB, Rydweld, Motorone, Beehive
− Ensure the workshop is 100% productive
− Delivery 200 vehicles per month minimum
- Answer all incoming calls and make outbound calls
- Follow call scripts and booking matrix
- Action any emails or voicemails in the shared inbox daily
- Manage CRM/TSA retention list on a daily basis
- Follow up no-show customers to reschedule or cancel appointments
- Confirm all first job starts and special-order parts bookings for the next day's bookings
- Complete parts list daily, confirming parts arrival for the next day's booking and rescheduling as necessary based on new ETA of parts
- Sent out SMS service reminders for next day's bookings
- Create a wash list for the service vehicles and Lexus details
- Upsell additional services such as wheel alignments, tyres and injector cleaner
- Complete daily banking reconciliation for the service and parts department
- Complete weekly customer estimate list/ customer estimate follow ups
- Action all provisional (online) bookings.
- Contact customers to schedule outstanding recalls
Continuity
- Taking inbound calls and making follow up calls on fault cases
- Isolating the customers equipment
- Testing the line and detecting the fault
- Organising technician visit
- Assisting customers with transfer from Telstra Copper to NBN Fibre
Corporate Faults
- Assisting corporate customers in understanding the fault
- Sending out a field visit or fixing it over the phone
- Case managing corporate accounts
Digital Office Technology for NBN Faults
- Collecting data and adding into spreadsheets
- Scheduling appointments
- Bookkeeping, following up and handling bills
- Providing end to end technical support
- Sharing knowledge on devices, applications & services
- Logging into the customers modem and fixing the issue reported
- Sending out replacement items (Modems, phones etc)
- Providing interim fixes
- Selling products
- Dealing with current issues with products
- Troubleshooting
- Managing clients