Area Parts Supervisor - UAE

What To Expect
Our Parts team plays a critical role in the service operations, offering fundamental support to both Technicians and customers. Together they constitute Tesla's front line and are our brand ambassadors, supporting our mission to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy.

Parts Supervisors are the front-line leaders of our parts operation. They act as brand ambassadors, delivering exceptional experiences to customers, managing day-to-day operations as well as proactively developing team members to reach their full potential.

We hire leaders who want to run a service parts business and be a part of our critical mission to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy.

Our parts Supervisors consistently deliver excellent results across both people's leadership and business operations. To succeed at Tesla, you must be energetic, highly organized, and smart working as well as having a passion for true leadership and our brand.

1. Supports Parts Advisors to achieve KPIs including, but not limited to, customer satisfaction, productivity, profitability, and cost savings.
2. Monitor performance consistently and be responsible for quality within your team, motivate, lead, and inspire the team in continuous improvements and efficiencies. Support from other locations is required.
3. Conduct regular one-to-ones and feedback sessions with team members, providing constructive and clear coaching and following up on development training and any personnel cases. Identify any roadblocks disturbing workflow and ensure that everyone has the tools and training to perform their role successfully.
4. Ensure that parts standards and available procedures are up-to-date, accurate and that all work is compliant.
5. Manage complex escalations together with your team, confidently resolving and defusing difficult conversations across all communication channels.
6. Accountable for end-to-end completeness of inventory from receiving to fulfillment and invoicing/consumption. Partner closely with the service manager to guarantee we service our customers' cars efficiently and seamlessly, ensuring parts are available and escalations processes are properly followed.
7. Liaise daily with internal teams within the Service Centre including Service & Delivery and local Senior Management.

1. Experience as a Lead Service or Parts Advisor, in a customer-facing industry role (within Tesla) is preferred.
2. Proven ability to lead by example and be innovative with processes and efficiencies. Ability and desire to lead and motivate a team, to engage and facilitate others to achieve and succeed.
3. Analytical ability to understand and impact key performance indicators.
4. Problem-solving initiative to fix problems when they arise, but also understand why and how they happened.
5. A calm, considered approach with exceptional communication skills and the ability to adapt your style dependent on whom you're interacting with.
6. Have an interest in developing yourself as a people manager and continuously grow by actively learning, self-assessing and asking for feedback.
7. Possess the ability to build trust with your team, your Manager, customers and stakeholders.