Parts Advisor Apprenticeship - Manchester – Find an apprenticeship

Summary

At Quickco, you’ll be working within a fast-paced, challenging, environment, where you’ll be encouraged to push boundaries and challenge convention. As a global automotive manufacturer, and one of the fastest growing, you’ll have the opportunity to work within an international business environment and grow with the company.

Wage

£13,312 a year

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23 days excluding of bank holidays

Training course

Customer service practitioner (level 2)

Hours

Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm with a 30-minute lunch

40 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 24 March

Duration

1 year

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

The Apprenticeship Programme is designed to train and develop you in a way that enables you to learn the core.

Elements of your job role using advancing technology as well as fostering an exceptional level of customer service.

Duties will include:

Working with customers to meet their requirements and giving advice on additional parts and services
Matching orders against stock items and sourcing parts, while offering competitive prices
Working as a team and independently to reach set goals and KPIs
Delivering fantastic customer service while remaining efficient and focused on your tasks
Incoming and outgoing call handling, face-to-face transactions, and IT-based communications
Managing goods in and out
Working with suppliers, placing orders or returns and processing paperwork accurately
Working to a high-level of customer service at all times and remain courteous and police to customers

Where you’ll work

6, Clarke Industrial Estate Barton Dock Rd Trafford Park, Manchester

M32 0ZE

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

NOTTINGHAM COLLEGE

Your training course

Customer service practitioner (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents

Use a range of questioning skills, including listening and responding in a way that builds rapport, determines customer needs and expectations and achieves positive engagement and delivery.
Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication skills, along with summarising language during face-to-face communications; and/or
Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate communication skills, along with reinforcement techniques (to confirm understanding) during non-facing customer interactions.
Depending on your job role and work environment: Use an appropriate ‘tone of voice’ in all communications, including written and digital, that reflect the organisation’s brand.
Provide clear explanations and offer options in order to help customers make choices that are mutually beneficial to both the customer and your organisation.
Be able to organise yourself, prioritise your own workload/activity and work to meet deadlines.
Demonstrate patience and calmness.
Show you understand the customer’s point of view.
Use appropriate sign-posting or resolution to meet your customers needs and manage expectations.
Maintain informative communication during service recovery.

Your training plan

Candidates will work towards achieving Level 2 Customer Service Practitioner apprenticeship standard. They will also be required to study towards achieving level 2 maths and English functional skills if they do not already hold equivalent qualifications. https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/customer-service-practitioner-v1-1

Level 2 Customer Service Practitioner apprenticeship standard.

Standard Training will include:

Nationally recognised qualifications
IMI level 2 Certificate in Customer Service for the Automotive Industry

· ATA Accreditation Customer Service Advisor

· Regular in dealer review and assessment visits

· Functional skills if needed

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths And English (grade 4)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Administrative skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

Other requirements

The candidate must be available to start as soon as possible and be able to travel to the workplace according to the working hours. The candidate must be able to attend the block release training weeks in Nottingham. The current National Minimum Wage (NMW) rate for apprentices is £6.40 per hour. This applies to 16-18year old apprentices and those aged over 18 in the first year of their Apprenticeship. For all other apprentices the National Minimum wage appropriate to their age applies. The Minimum Wage for Apprentices applies to time spent on the job plus time spent training. * Please note that anyone under the age of 18 will only work a maximum of 40 hours per week. Any role which exceeds these hours on advert will be amended accordingly to fall in line with the legislation * Please note that if the successful applicant is found prior to the closing date the vacancy maybe withdrawn early

About this company

Quickco has a long and successful history being one of the UK’s largest multi-franchise Genuine parts distributors. Our sites are stockists of Ford, Vauxhall, Citroen, Peugeot, & more. As part of Pendragon PLC, OE manufacturers form the cornerstone of our parts strategy and product range.

After this apprenticeship

Possible permanent position on the completion of the apprenticeship.

On completion of the apprenticeship the average salary of a parts advisor is anywhere between 22k-28k.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

NOTTINGHAM COLLEGE

Lauren

lauren.moulds@nottinghamcollege.ac.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000302417.

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Closes in 8 days (Monday 3 March at 11:59pm)

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Parts Advisor Apprenticeship - Manchester

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