Customer Specialist

CarMax • Albany, NY

397d • $35,152 - $52,832

About The Position

As a Customer Specialist at CarMax, you will play a crucial role in providing an exceptional customer experience throughout the car buying and selling process. This position involves guiding customers, conducting vehicle assessments, and ensuring that all transactions are handled smoothly and efficiently. You will work in a high-energy retail environment, collaborating with various teams to meet customer needs and uphold CarMax's commitment to honesty and transparency.

Requirements

• Demonstrate exceptional communication skills
• Display confidence in self, the product and CarMax
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships
• Demonstrate strong team behaviors including integrity, respect, inclusion, fairness and fun
• Balance the needs of the Customer and the business when making decisions
• Seek to fully understand and meet Customer needs
• Create win-win solutions to Customer issues
• Get work done well, on time and follow the right process
• Drive work processes and pay close attention to detail
• Perform multiple duties in a high energy, fast-paced working environment
• Read, interpret and transcribe data in order to maintain accurate records
• Lift objects that weigh as much as 25 lbs.

Nice To Haves

• Sales and customer service experience, in an area such as retail, preferred
• Basic skills with Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., Word, Excel and PowerPoint) preferred

Responsibilities

• Provide exceptional customer service by guiding customers every step of the way, from sale or facilitating the appraisal to test drives and arranging financing applications
• Conduct vehicle condition assessments by collecting, recording, and communicating information to Buyers that will be used to perform customer appraisals
• Check in and receive vehicles that are shipped to CarMax; complete the daily scanning and reconciliation of vehicle inventory
• Perform cosmetic inspections and ensure that all vehicles meet CarMax Quality Standards
• Perform various administrative duties, including printing daily reports, maintaining transaction paperwork, contacting finance companies regarding Customer contracts, obtaining requirement information regarding registration and/or titling, auditing completed paperwork, cash/payment management
• Create service appointments and review repair order invoices for retail service work performed; ensure accuracy of documentation for billing

Benefits

• Paid sick time of up to 48 hours per year accrued on a per pay period basis
• Vacation time between 80 hours and 200 hours per year after a 90 day waiting period depending on years of continuous service
• Paid time off for 6 scheduled holidays per year plus 1 floating holiday
• Holiday Premium Pay for working on scheduled holidays
• Full-time salaried associates entitled to paid time away with no specified limit for sick, vacation, bereavement, jury duty, holidays, floating holiday, etc.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 10,001+ employees