Join our Ricart Buick GMC Chevrolet team located in the North Columbus area. Ricart Automotive has been Columbus’ Top Place to Work since 2013! We offer competitive pay, a generous benefits package, opportunities for advancement, a family environment, strong company culture, and more employee events than anyone in the industry!
Responsibilities:
- Sells used vehicles while achieving and maintaining appropriate levels of gross profit, volume, and customer satisfaction.
What We Need From You Job Duties and Requirements:
- Approaches, greets and offers assistance or direction to any customer who enters the dealership showroom or sales lot.
- Assists customers in selecting a vehicle by asking questions and listening carefully to their responses. Suggest alternative vehicles if necessary.
- Provides thorough product information and demonstration to all prospects.
- Offers test drives to all prospects. Follows dealership procedure to obtain proper identification from customer before test drive begins.
- Exhibits a high level of commitment to customer satisfaction.
- Utilizes dealership sales control and follow-up system.
- Knows and understands the federal, state and local laws which govern retail auto sales.
- Establishes personal income goals that are consistent with dealership standards of productivity, and devises a strategy to meet those goals.
- Knows and understands equity and values, and is able to explain depreciation to the customer.
- Ensures that the sales manager has an opportunity to meet each customer.
- Turns 100 percent of closed deals to finance and insurance manager and presents properly completed paperwork (i.e., insurance information, trade title etc.).
- Prepares sold vehicles for customer delivery (i.e., cleans vehicles, fills gas tank and ensures all features are operational) prior to customer arrival.
- Delivers vehicles to customers, ensuring that the customer understands the vehicle's operating features, warranty and paperwork.
- Introduces customers to service department personnel to emphasize to them the quality and efficiency of service repairs and maintenance available in the dealership's service department.
- Schedules first service appointment.
- Follow up on all post-delivery items, tag/title work, “we-owes,” and special requests to be sure that all customer expectations are met.
- Maintains an owner follow-up system that encourages repeat and referral business and contributes to customer satisfaction.
- Maintains a prospect development and follow-up system.
- Works with the service department and body shop to ensure that vehicles are properly reconditioned on schedule.
- Attends sales meetings.
- Helps with the used-vehicle inspection process.
- Writes complete sales orders and processes paperwork in accordance with established dealership policies.
- Reviews and analyzes actions at the end of each day, week, month, and year to determine how to better utilize time and plans more effectively.
- Other tasks as assigned.
Essential Job Functions:
- Must have and maintain a valid driver’s license with less than 6 points to remain insurable and able to drive on company property
- High school education or equivalent
- Ability to drive a manual vehicle preferred, but not required
- Must be able to walk around/stand for long periods.
- Understands the terminology of the automobile business and keeps abreast of changes in product technology, incoming inventory, features, accessories etc.
Ricart Automotive is an equal opportunity employer.