Description
Position: Bodyshop Manager
Location: Coventry
Salary: £45,000 - £47,000 basic + Bonus
Shift: Days / 45 hrs
Hours: 8am-5pm
Contract: Permanent position
Benefits: Company pension, 28 days holiday rising to 33 days, Bonus Scheme, free onsite parking
Bodyshop Manager Opportunity
Exciting opportunity to join a well-established multi-site commercial vehicle repair business within their brand new (Opening December 2022) state of the art site in Coventry as the Bodyshop Manager. The Bodyshop Manager will have full P & L responsibility for managing the site to maximise performance and achieve profitability reporting directly into the Managing Director.
We need an energetic, driven individual with strong operational and people management skills.
Bodyshop Manager main responsibilities
- Ensure profitability of the site by achieving monthly target contributions and managing costs
- Manage and drive productivity of the bodyshop
- Increase efficiencies and productivity, ensuring all areas are monitored and measured
- Manage and update all daily and weekly KPI’s
- Overall management of workloads and ensure completion dates are met for all jobs
- Provide leadership, direction and motivation to the team of circa 12 staff initially but this will increase
- Recruitment of new team members
- Ensure any performance, conduct, lateness or absence issues are managed appropriately and in a timely manner
- Inspect damaged vehicles and prepare estimates
- Create and develop new customer relationships
- Responsible for ensuring the site complies with all relevant H & S requirements (including training)
- Liaison with suppliers
Bodyshop Manager experience required
- Previous experience as a Bodyshop Manager
- Strong people management skills
- Budget management experience
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to motivate and drive teams to achieve targets
- Experience of estimating and certification in Audatex would be beneficial
If you are a Bodyshop Manager and would like to apply for this exciting role with one of the region’s leading employers, make an application via this advert