Employment Opportunities

Menzies Chrysler is a customer-focused, high volume dealership located in Whitby, Ontario. We are looking for an experienced, highly professional, full-time Parts Manager to join our successful team.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Forecasts goals and objectives for sales, gross and key expenses on a monthly and annual basis.

• Collaborates with the Fixed Operations Manager to make final decisions on departmental goals and objectives.

• Assists Parts team in setting goals and objectives and coaches to achieve goals.

• Responsible to hire, train, motivate, coach and monitor the performance of the Parts employees.

• Works with the Service Manager to ensure a timely turnaround of parts needed for internal jobs.

• Develops and directs advertising initiatives and takes advantages of all manufacturers' inventory co-operative advertising.

• Maintains a balanced inventory consistent with the requirements of the service department, body shop, wholesale accounts and the public.

• Ensures that all parts are properly tagged so that the dealership recovers full credits from the factory.

• Develops and administers an aggressive wholesale parts program to produce profit.

• Provides technical assistance to Parts department employees.

• Receives inventory, records and stocks orders as required.

• Ensures that all parts purchases are properly accounted for prior to payment being made.

• Working with the accounting department to establish department credit limits for customers and ensure the limits are maintained and current.

• Reviews and assists in the collection of past-due accounts.

• Reviews and approves invoices and statements.

• Finalizes month end reports as required.

• Responsible for the day to day operational decisions in the Parts department.

• Responsible for determining the priority of tasks within the scope of the position.

Qualifications

• Previous parts management experience in a dealership parts department.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience working as a parts advisor, shipping and receiving clerk, or delivery driver.

• Proficient with the following computer environments: Google Docs, Google Sheets, Internet Explorer and Gmail.

• Working knowledge of wholesale parts department operations.

• PBS Experience preferred.

• Valid Ontario Driver's License and a clean driver's abstract.

• Completion of high school diploma or vocational equivalent.

• Excellent leadership and management skills.

• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.

• Must be able to communicate in verbal and written English.

• Ability to build a customer focused team environment.

• Ability to build long-lasting and trusting customer relationships.

• Excellent problem-solving skills in order to resolve customer issues.

• Ability to work efficiently and effectively under pressure with simultaneous deadlines.

• Must be detail oriented.

• Excellent organizational and multi-tasking skills.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality of pertinent data.