21 Oct
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Geely Auto Australia
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Sydney
21 Oct
Geely Auto Australia
Sydney
- Geely is a global leader in smart electric vehicles and automotive innovation.
- Own iconic brands like Geely Auto, Zeekr, Volvo, Polestar, Lotus, and hold a 17% stake in Aston Martin.
- With $100B+ assets and 140,000+ employees worldwide.
- 30,000+ engineers & designers across China, Sweden, the UK, the U.S., and Germany.
- 4,000+ sales/service locations worldwide.
- Fortune Global 500 company for 13 consecutive years.
- Pioneering AI-driven automotive solutions with one of the largest cloud computing center powers (1.02 Exaflops/sec).
- Geely’s Geespace launched 20 satellites to enable secure autonomous driving.
- World-class digitalisation and AI-driven manufacturing.
- Mission & Vision: A Sustainable Future, A Better World.
- Core Value: Truth-seeking & practical, hardworking & enterprising, collaborative & innovative.
Why This Role:
- As Geely Auto Australia enters a critical growth phase, building a robust, scalable, and commercially driven national parts and accessories function is essential to supporting dealer success, enhancing customer experience, and ensuring business continuity.
- This role goes beyond traditional parts operations, taking full ownership of both parts and accessories performance, including commercial outcomes, customer experience, and dealer profitability.
- The Parts & Accessories Manager will lead the development of a high-performing, data-driven, and customer-centric operation, ensuring strong service delivery, operational excellence, and sustainable business growth.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and execute a national parts and accessories strategy, aligned with Geely Auto Australia’s overall business objectives.
- Own and drive parts and accessories P&L; performance, including revenue, margin, cost control, and working capital optimisation.
- Define pricing strategies, commercial policies, and revenue growth initiatives across both parts and accessories.
Accessories & Growth
- Lead the development and expansion of the accessories (genuine and lifestyle products) portfolio, aligned with customer demand, market trends, and brand positioning.
- Possessing experience in developing high-quality attachments, being familiar with the relevant processes, and having the ability to design corresponding business models.
- Drive accessory attachment rate across vehicle sales by integrating accessories into the full customer journey (pre-sale, point-of-sale, and aftersales).
- Develop accessory campaigns, bundling strategies, and promotional programs to maximise revenue and dealer profitability.
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, and Dealer Network teams to embed accessories into core commercial strategy.
Supply Chain & Operations
- Lead end-to-end parts supply chain management to optimise stock levels, availability, and inventory accuracy, minimising shortages and excess inventory.
- Oversee supplier management, master data accuracy, lead times, forecasting, procurement, and pricing.
- Monitor and analyse inventory turnover,
fill rates, and obsolete stock, and implement initiatives to improve efficiency.
- Develop advanced demand planning and forecasting capabilities to support business growth and reduce stock risk.
- Oversee performance and compliance of suppliers, 3PL warehousing, and logistics partners, ensuring SLA adherence and continuous improvement.
- Drive cost-to-serve reduction initiatives and optimise warehousing and logistics costs.
- Manage dealer parts policies, training, and performance, ensuring consistency across the network for parts ordering, stocking, and accessory fitment ratio.
- Drive continuous improvement through structured dealer performance reviews.
- Implement dealer incentive programs and performance frameworks to drive parts retention, service absorption, and accessory penetration.
- Collaborate with regional teams and dealers to identify opportunities to improve service quality and grow parts and accessories sales.
Process, Systems & Governance
- Develop, implement, and maintain national parts and accessories processes, procedures, and reporting frameworks.
- Build scalable operating models, systems integration, and governance structures to support long-term business growth.
- Coordinate with HQ and stakeholders to improve system integration and operational efficiency.
Quality, Warranty & Risk Management
- Oversee warranty returns, root-cause analysis for defective parts, and continuous quality improvement initiatives.
- Establish robust quality monitoring, recall support, and risk mitigation processes aligned with regulatory and brand standards.
- Ensure compli
📌 Parts & Accessories Manager (Sydney)
🏢 Geely Auto Australia
📍 Sydney