The role in a nutshell: Commercial vehicles represent an important and clear growth area for KINTO UK. This is a highly visible role within the business, working on both existing customer and new business opportunities to ensure accurate, consistent, on time, and on budget coordination of conversions, fit outs and/or livery of customers leased vehicles. The role requires direct interaction with customers, prospects, supply chain partners, manufacturers and their networks and internal KINTO departments.
A bit about the ‘Department’: The multi-brand sales team are a fun, collaborative and hard-working group who strive to meet the fleet needs of major corporates, public sector and not for profit organisations in the UK. From funding to fleet management and mobility, our team will consult, support and offer a blend of products and services, that together attract new customers and help drive our existing customer’s fleet ambitions forward.
What you’ll be doing:
- Manage, coordinate, track, and report customer conversion activity from initial specifications, through to successful delivery
- Propose solutions to support timely and accurate vehicle conversions
- Facilitate final sign off conversion with the customer and relevant suppliers before delivery, where required to ensure satisfaction
- Build strong and effective internal relationships, in particular with our procurement and commercial team
- Build relationships with manufacturer, their CV network and conversion supply chain
- Utilise CRM (Salesforce) ensuring all sales activity is recorded
- Provide support and development with your peers
- Deliver appropriate activity to achieve all targets
- Preparation of reports summarising activity as required
- Attend sales meetings when required to do so
- Reinforce the culture and values of KINTO through appropriate behaviours and actions
What you’ll get to own:
- Communications between supply chain and customers for vehicle conversions
- Creation and delivery of conversion proposal through to delivery
Requirements
Key Experience & Skills:
Essential:
- Proven success working with fleet industry and commercial vehicles
- Vehicle conversion expertise
- Highly computer literate
- Ability to create, present and negotiate solutions internally and externally up to C-Suite
- Natural self-starter with consultative approach
- Work without direct supervision and on own initiative
- Understanding of project management methodology
Desirable:
- OPL background
- Salesforce CRM understanding
- Use of shared worksheet platforms (smartsheets etc)
Benefits
- Bonus earning potential
- 25 days holiday + 8 days bank holiday
- Great pension scheme starting at employee (EE) contribution of 4% with an employer (ER) contribution of 11%. This can flex up to 6% EE contribution and 15% ER contribution
- Car Scheme following passing of probation
- Private Medical Cover
- Life assurance scheme
- Discounts on different retailers
- Free onsite car parking
- Onsite nursery with discounted prices
- Well-being hour each month
- Discounts on Toyota & Lexus Cars
- Well-being events
- Volunteer Days
- Employee assistance programmes
- Free fruit in the office
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.
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 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.
