Parts Pricing Specialist at UD Trucks

Job Overview

• UD Trucks is known for our pioneering technologies and products within the commercial automotive industry. The successful candidate will be responsible for parts price maintenance and dealer pricing support combined with parts price basket maintenance and sales opportunity identification. Dealer support with incentive programs and promotional assistance and financial controls.

Responsibilities and Duties 

Parts pricing maintenance

• Parts Comparative baskets
• Pro-active parts price negotiations
• Dealer price assistance requests - VMS
• Annual parts price increase
• New Part numbers

Promotions and Incentives

•  Parts specials & campaign
•  Dealer Momentum Incentive (DMI)
•  Manage Truck Sales promotions where parts are involved

Reporting

• Bi-daily Sales Forecast
• Weekly sales tracking report
• Monthly Parts performance vs budgets
• Monthly Lubricant performance vs budgets
• Monthly parts export performance vs budgets
• Monthly detailed sales & GP report for trend identification
• Monthly Dealer performance vs Challenge targets
• Local & Export dealers
• Monthly departmental profitability 
• Monthly capturing of RB maps from dealers
• Sales & stock trend analysis

Financial controls

• Sundry credits
• Monthly expenses on incentives and promotions
• LPA initial & periodical buy back provisions vs actuals and balance management
• Purchase orders

Dealer Challenge targets

• Annual trends analysis
• Compilation at year-end of historical dealer purchase data
• Application of discussed and agreed growth factor
• Design and create Challenge letter to all dealers and distribute for evaluation
• Receiving and safe keeping of all signed Challenge letters
• Accurate record keeping as we require 100% signed commitments

Dealer communication

• Campaigns & promotions
• Bulletins
• Incentives
• Policies and procedures

Minimum qualifications and experience

• Bachelor degree advantageous
• Minimum 2 years aftersales experience
• Minimum 3-5 years parts pricing experience
• Basic Financial understanding
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to allow effective interaction with all levels of the organization and dealer network
• Ability to work independently, work under pressure of deadlines, handle multiple priorities and pay close attention to detail
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Excellent analytical and numerical skills
• Basic knowledge on parts and various parts components
• Self motivated and driven personality