Job Summary:

As a Body Shop Manager you are responsible for efficient and profitable operations of body & paint shop. In this function, you ensure that strategic and operational goals are met and that the derived measures are implemented. Your key responsibilities are:

- Ensuring the Body & paint shop department achieves budget objectives by continual (weekly/monthly) examination of accounts, operating controls and composite figures in conjunction with the Service Head
- Operating the Body & Paint shop efficiently.
- Ensuring accurate invoicing and repair estimate
- Ensuring premises, equipment and other assets are controlled and used effectively.
- Ensuring all stock purchases are controlled and sold at a profit.
- Training and coaching Body & Paint shops staff and technician as required.
- In consultation with training personnel, identify the training needs. Plan training schedule to keep all technical staff up-to-date with modern developments and maintain training records.
- In conjunction with the achievement of employee efficiency targets, maintaining Workshop productivity records to monitor the effective use of employee.
- Maintaining effective liaison with Insurance Company, Insurance Surveyor and within inter Departmental Managers.
- Maintaining direct liaison with Manufacturer, Suppliers, Statutory representatives and all other contacts.
- Timely reviewing all pricing policies, labour rates, fleet discounts, parts pricing and all other dealership policies.
- Purchasing stock, consumables, short-life tools and other Body & Paint shop related products within agreed limits.
- Monitoring Body shop productive performance daily, by total and individual technician.

Organizational competence

- You have the ability to put in place structured processes and ensure a high level of quality in Body & Paint Shop as well as to create a sense of awareness about this.
- You implement decisions effectively and achieve agreed objectives.
- You set high standards of quality,



ensure their sustainability vis a vis colleagues and employees, as well as maintaining these standards yourself.
- You use interfaces and exchange experiences actively and across divisions.
- You communicate processes clearly to others involved.
- You are open to recent solutions or process optimizations.
- Ability to control clerical work, administration, organization, systems, financial matters and leadership ability. Action goal: At all times, you guarantee the efficiency of the Body & Paint Shop by efficient and quality-effective processes.

Business competencies

- You have the ability to plan and set out future-directed strategic and operational goals for the long run, as well as ensure profitability of Body & Paint Shop at all times.
- You actively generate ideas for forming strategic and operational goals.
- You have a distinct long-term vision and keen sense for market trends.
- You recognize and consider changing demands; you can derive targets from key figures.
- You pay attention to the operative utilization of capacity in the Body & Paint Shop
- You initiate and actively manage new customer acquisitions. Action goals: you play an important role in increasing the earning of the dealership. Technical competencies
- You have the ability to use your professional knowledge in planning and controlling body & paint shop activities.
- You optimize the utilization of available tools, systems and instruments in planning, managing and developing body & paint shop activities.
- You can analyze and assess the key figures of derive targets as well as utilize them actively in planning and controlling body & paint shop activities. Action goals: you ensure an effective business operation.

Requirements

Qualification & Experience:

- Bachelor of Engineering in Automobile/Mechanical
- Management degree will have an added advantage
- Minimum 8-10 years’ experience in the Accident Management in premium segment brand.

Benefits

1. Statutory Benefit

2. Medi claim Policy

3. Incentive

📌 Bodyshop Manager (Pune)
🏢 B. U. Bhandari Mercedes-Benz
📍 Pune