Ford Parts Manager

About the position

The Ford Parts Manager at Capital Auto Group is responsible for overseeing the parts department in an automotive dealership, ensuring a best-in-class customer experience while managing inventory, pricing, and staff performance. This role involves strategic planning to meet departmental goals, maintaining profitability, and fostering a positive work environment.

Responsibilities

• Forecasts goals and objectives for the department and strives to meet them.
• Hires, trains, motivates, counsels, and monitors the performance of all parts department staff.
• Prepares and administers an annual operating budget for the parts department.
• Maintains a balanced inventory consistent with the requirements of the service department, body shop, wholesale accounts, and the do-it-yourself public.
• Establishes pricing parameters in each customer category that generate sufficient gross profit to produce a satisfactory profit while maintaining customer loyalty.

Requirements

• Outstanding leadership skills which focus on treating customers and employees with respect.
• Analyzes sales, expenses, and inventory monthly to maintain profit goals.
• Develops and administers an aggressive wholesale parts program to produce profit.
• Ensures that the same high-quality level of service provided to outside customers is also provided to internal dealership customers.
• Works with the service manager and body shop manager to ensure a timely turnaround of parts needed for internal jobs.
• Monitors daily reports such as DOC, and sales productivity.
• Develops and utilizes a lost sales tracking report.
• Two to four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Benefits

• Health savings account
• Paid holidays
• Relocation assistance
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible spending account
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Employee discount
• Opportunities for advancement
• Life insurance
• Prescription drug insurance