Operations Associate

Portsmouth , United Kingdom
Full-Time

“This role that you are applying for, will be working for KINTO-UK Ltd which is a Mobility Brand owned by the Toyota Group, offices located in Portsmouth. KINTO-UK share their HR function with Toyota Financial Services (TFS) in the UK, however the job being advertised will not be working directly for Toyota Financial Services”

PURPOSE OF ROLE

This is a widely varied role, providing support across all KINTO Operational departments when required due to Holiday, Sickness and general workload.

Premier – To ensure all vehicles service, maintenance and repair is booked to the manufacture service schedule, to the client requirement and within our preferred network.

Downtime – To pro-actively monitor and manage all vehicles off road (VOR) as well as having close regular dialogue with garages so that each vehicle is repaired and reunited with its driver as quickly as possible.

Incident Management – To assist customers who have reported damage to their vehicles (FNOL), whether that be from a major incident such as a Road Traffic Incident, or minor damage such as car park scrapes.

Fleet Admin – Dealing with all aspects of admin relating to our Units in Operation

Remarketing - To perform Remarketing administration processing responsibilities in a timely and

accurate manner.

Key Responsibilities

Premier Team: -

  • Provide a point of contact for a range of customer queries via telephone and email
  • Making electronic bookings for vehicles’ service, maintenance and repair work.
  • Liaise with internal departments and external partners to resolve customer queries in an effective and efficient manner.

Downtime: -

  • Provide a point of contact for a range of customer queries via telephone and email
  • Pro-actively monitor and manage Downtime on KINTO Fleet vehicles during service, maintenance and repair work.
  • Liaise with internal departments and external partners to resolve customer queries in an effective and efficient manner

Incident Management: -

  • You will be speaking to customers on the phone, as well as dealing with repair centres, body shops, and mobile repairers. You will also work with our third-party accident management supplier to provide a seamless service for our customer.
  • You will also need to be able to take down high volumes of information quickly and accurately and manage your time effectively to chase repairs and complete tasks between calls.

Fleet Admin: -

  • Processing of all types of fines, Congestion Charges, Ultra Low Emission Zones (ULEZ) charges and Clean Air Zone (CAZ) charges
  • V5 Management, including Cherished Plates
  • Relicensing of vehicles on fleet
  • Motor Insurance Database (MID) Management
  • MOT & Service reminder Management, Recall Management

Remarketing: -

  • Requesting and Managing End of Contract (EOC) Inspect & Collection (I&C) Requests
  • Weekly Stock Reconciliation ensuring all assets are accounted for
  • Publishing of vehicles for sale
  • Assist in the Customer Monthly Reports ensuring monies are paid
  • Assist in the production of end of contract charges ensuring accuracy & revenue
  • Produce Driver Sales quotations and manage subsequent enquiries
  • Assist in the accurate and timely production of Remarketing reports and forecasts

General: -

  • The ability to cover all roles and support the team, ensuring we meet department targets and objectives.
  • Effective liaison with internal and external stakeholders & customers, delivering a service with Care, Warmth and Pride

How you could stretch this role:

  • Learning tasks above and beyond the basic role within the department to support more advanced areas.
  • Proactively monitoring areas that need support
  • Gaining further knowledge of our business and of the fleet industry in order to improve our service and processes
  • Using TPS Kaizen methodology to improve our processes

In the future, this role will provide a great knowledge base to become a subject matter expert across our department.

Experience you’ll gain:

  • A broad picture of the workings of the department.
  • A wide range of Customer Service, Operational, and Administrative skills.

How we’ll support you:

  • A full KINTO induction
  • Provide a great learning opportunity to develop the core skills required to excel in the role.
  • Give you the space and opportunity to be your whole self at work.
  • Foster a learning culture, providing you with clear and constructive feedback, and encouraging you to do the same.

As a manager:

  • Regular 1:1’s to provide direction and guidance
  • Clear objective setting via our performance management process
  • On-going coaching as required.
  • Always available for support as needed.

Requirements

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

  • Resilient and resourceful with good organisational skills and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels
  • Strong customer focus, first time resolution
  • Effective complaint handling
  • Organised to manage own workload
  • Problem solving, solutions focused
  • Self-motivated with enthusiasm to succeed
  • Excellent call & email quality
  • Attention to detail

Benefits

  • Competitive starting salary
  • Bonus earning potential
  • Hybrid working policy - 2 days from home each week
  • 25 days holiday + 8 days bank holiday
  • Great pension scheme starting at employee contribution of 4% with an employer contribution of 11%. This can flex to 15% dependent upon contributions
  • Life assurance scheme
  • Discounts on different retailers
  • Wellbeing hour each month
  • Discounts on Toyota & Lexus cars
  • Volunteer Days
  • Wellbeing events
  • Employee assistance programmes
  • Free fruit in the office
  • Free onsite car parking


KINTO UK is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from anyone who is excited by the opportunity of joining us and will thoroughly consider all applications without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.


OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS

At KINTO we value everyone and are pleased to be recognised as a Disability Confident Employer, which is a national standard that ensures our processes are accessible to all.

For this role we follow a 1st and 2nd round interview process with a member of HR and the hiring Manager/s. The interview will be via Teams and/or Face to Face, so that we ensure you have the best experience.

Everyone is unique, and that means what works for some may not work for everyone. When it comes to recruitment, please do let us know if we can adjust our process to be meet your accessibility needs.

Some examples of how we might be able to help are listed below:

  • Providing a copy of interview questions before the interview
  • Organising a time and location that best suits you
  • Allowing additional time for the assessment and interview

We are happy to review any adjustment on a case-by-case basis, so please let us know how we can support you to be your best self.

On the job training will be provided, we recognise we all learn differently, and we want to ensure that our training will suit your learning style. We are open to talking to you about how we can make learning your new role in the most positive way.

Toyota Financial Services (UK) PLC offer a range of innovative financial solutions, ensuring complete customer satisfaction is at the heart of what we do. Based in Burgh Heath, Epsom, our teams of experts work within a fast-paced environment where a culture of improvement and respect is ever-present.We ensure to conduct business with the highest ethical standards and a fair and sincere attitude. We aim to have a positive impact in the communities in which we operate and as a Company, focus on delivering high quality products that meet our customers needs. At TFS, our people are our greatest assets and we believe in dedicated ongoing training and development of our staff in order to maximise and support their growth.To find out more about Toyota Financial Services, please visit https://www.toyota.co.uk/world-of-toyota/careers/toyota-financial-servicesAt KINTO UK Limited (“KINTO”), we have a simple, clear goal. “To keep the wheels of commerce turning and provide a journey our customers come back for, delivered with care, warmth and pride.” We offer a complete portfolio of fleet management and funding solutions for cars and equipped light commercial vehicles. We also want to be a place where everyone is supported so that they enjoy what they do. There is a very special feeling at KINTO, which is why we invite people to Step Inside and experience it for themselves. Step inside KINTO and you’ll sense ambition, determination and a passion to do things better. You’ll also meet lots of really helpful, experienced and friendly people. Based in Portsmouth, everything we do is under one roof with over 200 staff, many of which are customer facing. The company is one team forever seeking to improve. We’ve always believed that happy staff will deliver fantastic customer service, and that’s why we enjoy such high ratings in our customer and driver surveys, and proudly remain an accredited member of the Institute of Customer Service. Based in Kings Cross, FAXI Ltd is a smartphone app and online platform provider which enables people in communities to identify each other and easily arrange to share journeys. Research suggests that nearly half of people would journey share with someone they know, yet millions of people travel each day with empty seats. FAXI believes that sharing is caring, and can help reduce congestion, pollution, and save people money and time while providing safer and more efficient travel. The FAXI team comes from a highly experienced background in technology and software development, "we love stuff that makes a difference. Some of us are techy and others just excited by ideas and being creative, so together we’re a pretty decent bunch".To find out more about Faxi, visit the You Tube channel:

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