Top Benefits
About the role
About Myers
Myers Automotive Group is all about Ottawa. The people on our team are your friends and neighbours. Our kids go to school together, play sports together, and succeed together. We sit on parents’ councils and volunteer with you to make good things happen. We sponsor teams and charity events. We are the community we serve.
We stand behind a solid reputation that we built the “hard way”: By attracting the best staff and the best customers, from one generation after another. From founder to Hank Mews in 1975, and then to his sons Harry and Rob in 2003, each leader of Myers Automotive Group has unwaveringly committed to Ottawa. This dedication fueled Myers' growth to a robust enterprise with 17 dealerships and 3 CARSTAR collision centres, employing over 1,000 employees.
Come join our team!
Reporting to the Vice President, Operations, the primary responsibility of this position is to maximize profits and standardize efficiencies within all of Myers dealerships parts departments.
What you will do:
- Manage group initiatives such as Bulk Purchasing in conjunction with manufacturers’ programs
- Meet with suppliers to negotiate discounted group purchasing and initiate purchases
- Conduct monthly store reviews and performance evaluations and KPI review
- Wholesale development - identify key areas of opportunity for wholesale growth and initiate acquisition of new business
- Help Coordinate the lay out, set up, online start up and onboarding of all new points, and store acquisitions. This will include but not be limited to physical parts inventories.
- Fill in as Parts Managers due to vacations.
- Trouble shoot Parts Departments across the entire group.
- Monitor and make store level recommendations to adjust inventories to minimize obsolescence.
- Establish individual parts inventory levels for each store and balance them for maximum turnover.
- Set and enforce a policy on the special ordering of parts through a coordinated effort for both retail and wholesale operations
- Develop and administer an aggressive wholesale parts program to produce profit. Ensure our wholesale programs are profitable.
- Coordinate a prompt, efficient and timely workflow process, paying particular attention to purchase order matching and verification.
- Develop and produce Lost Sale Tracking Report.
- Analyze Sales, gross expense, and inventory monthly to maintain profit goals.
- Monitor the percentage markup on parts obtained locally.
- Forecast goals and objectives for the Parts departments and assist store Managers in their efforts to meet them.
- Strive for harmony and teamwork with all other departments.
- Work with the Service Managers and Body Shop Managers to ensure a timely turnaround of parts needed for internal jobs.
- Attend Managers' Meetings.
- Understand, keep abreast of, and comply with federal and provincial regulations that may affect Parts sales.
- Provide technical assistance and periodic training to Parts department employees.
- Conduct meetings with Parts department employees to discuss activities and problems of mutual interest and to develop strategies for a more efficient operation.
For this role, come equipped with:
- Proficiency with Excel and business intelligence tools
- Knowledge of Reynolds & Reynolds
- At least 5 years’ experience in parts sales; wholesale, dealership sales and/or dealership experience such as Dealer Parts Manager or Service Manager
- Strong relationship-building skills
- Experience evaluating business performance and providing effective and accurate reports
- Inventory Management experience
- Project management experience would be considered an asset.
Please note: In addition to the base salary, Myers proudly offers its employees a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package that features:
- bonus incentive plans (where applicable)
- career mobility
- flexible benefits
- paid leaves
- good work/life balance
- robust health & well-being initiatives
- and on-going training.
Don't check off every single bullet point? At Myers, we prioritize the right fit for our organization over a strict checklist of criteria. We encourage applications from individuals whose backgrounds may not perfectly align.
Top Benefits
About the role
About Myers
Myers Automotive Group is all about Ottawa. The people on our team are your friends and neighbours. Our kids go to school together, play sports together, and succeed together. We sit on parents’ councils and volunteer with you to make good things happen. We sponsor teams and charity events. We are the community we serve.
We stand behind a solid reputation that we built the “hard way”: By attracting the best staff and the best customers, from one generation after another. From founder to Hank Mews in 1975, and then to his sons Harry and Rob in 2003, each leader of Myers Automotive Group has unwaveringly committed to Ottawa. This dedication fueled Myers' growth to a robust enterprise with 17 dealerships and 3 CARSTAR collision centres, employing over 1,000 employees.
Come join our team!
Reporting to the Vice President, Operations, the primary responsibility of this position is to maximize profits and standardize efficiencies within all of Myers dealerships parts departments.
What you will do:
- Manage group initiatives such as Bulk Purchasing in conjunction with manufacturers’ programs
- Meet with suppliers to negotiate discounted group purchasing and initiate purchases
- Conduct monthly store reviews and performance evaluations and KPI review
- Wholesale development - identify key areas of opportunity for wholesale growth and initiate acquisition of new business
- Help Coordinate the lay out, set up, online start up and onboarding of all new points, and store acquisitions. This will include but not be limited to physical parts inventories.
- Fill in as Parts Managers due to vacations.
- Trouble shoot Parts Departments across the entire group.
- Monitor and make store level recommendations to adjust inventories to minimize obsolescence.
- Establish individual parts inventory levels for each store and balance them for maximum turnover.
- Set and enforce a policy on the special ordering of parts through a coordinated effort for both retail and wholesale operations
- Develop and administer an aggressive wholesale parts program to produce profit. Ensure our wholesale programs are profitable.
- Coordinate a prompt, efficient and timely workflow process, paying particular attention to purchase order matching and verification.
- Develop and produce Lost Sale Tracking Report.
- Analyze Sales, gross expense, and inventory monthly to maintain profit goals.
- Monitor the percentage markup on parts obtained locally.
- Forecast goals and objectives for the Parts departments and assist store Managers in their efforts to meet them.
- Strive for harmony and teamwork with all other departments.
- Work with the Service Managers and Body Shop Managers to ensure a timely turnaround of parts needed for internal jobs.
- Attend Managers' Meetings.
- Understand, keep abreast of, and comply with federal and provincial regulations that may affect Parts sales.
- Provide technical assistance and periodic training to Parts department employees.
- Conduct meetings with Parts department employees to discuss activities and problems of mutual interest and to develop strategies for a more efficient operation.
For this role, come equipped with:
- Proficiency with Excel and business intelligence tools
- Knowledge of Reynolds & Reynolds
- At least 5 years’ experience in parts sales; wholesale, dealership sales and/or dealership experience such as Dealer Parts Manager or Service Manager
- Strong relationship-building skills
- Experience evaluating business performance and providing effective and accurate reports
- Inventory Management experience
- Project management experience would be considered an asset.
Please note: In addition to the base salary, Myers proudly offers its employees a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package that features:
- bonus incentive plans (where applicable)
- career mobility
- flexible benefits
- paid leaves
- good work/life balance
- robust health & well-being initiatives
- and on-going training.
Don't check off every single bullet point? At Myers, we prioritize the right fit for our organization over a strict checklist of criteria. We encourage applications from individuals whose backgrounds may not perfectly align.