VRM Operations Coordinator (9-month FTC/Secondment) in Norfolk

Motability Operations are currently recruiting for Operations Coordinators to join our team in Bristol on a 9-month FTC/Secondment. You will have the exciting opportunity to work in a busy operations team ensuring that all vehicles returned from the Motability scheme are allocated, routed, and entered into multiple sales channels, supporting with a decision-making tool Vehicle Assignment.

You will be responsible as a key decision maker in ensuring all returned vehicles are assigned to remarketing channels depending on market trends, optimising suitable supply and ensuring we continue to contribute to our North Star within Vehicle Remarketing which is supporting the growth of our Net Premium. Alongside this, you will ensure work is completed within service level agreements through to point of sale, ensuring all details are correct on each vehicle that is published or moved to its next destination, whether that be into our Vehicle Solutions network or our Physical Auction platform.

You will liaise with multiple 3rd party partners, building strong working relationships, holding suppliers accountable for their performance. You will ensure all team reporting and administrative support is actioned within agreed timescales, utilising data to support with daily tasks, as well as measuring and evaluating the success of any operational pilots or trials.

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate with people at all levels
• Commercially aware and focused
• Proven telephone experience
• Proven excellent customer services experience
• A genuine interest in providing excellent customer service
• Experience of delivering results in a pressurised environment
• Accuracy skills and a keen eye for detail
• Administration experience
• Experience of working to service levels
• Knowledge of Vehicle Remarketing processes
• Good relevant PC administrative skills, eg: Microsoft, Excel (using V look-up) and Microsoft Word, Outlook.
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Experience of working with Third Party suppliers/Relationship management

Benefits

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 800,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included.

We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, you can expect:

• An annual discretionary bonus
• 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary
• Employee Discount Scheme with a huge number of retailers
• Discounted Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme
• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
• Critical illness insurance
• Free access to healthcare apps
• Funded health screening for over 50s
• 1 day per year to volunteer
• Access to our fully accessible company allotment
• Access to Prayer room and quiet spaces whilst working in the office

We also understand that not everyone is the same so offer several voluntary benefits that you can select outside the core package, these include; Dental Insurance, Health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, Discounted gym memberships, Charitable giving.

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first-rate disability access.

With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.

Please note, Motability Operations reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.