Location
Bristol
Position
Commercial Operations
Advertising Salary:
£35,431
Closing Date
16 Nov 2025

About The Role

Motability Operations are currently recruiting for a Dealer Partner Internal Advisor to join our team in Bristol on a 12-month secondment/FTC. You will be part of a team that provides dedicated dealer support to drive dealer performance and compliance that fundamentally improves the customer experience within dealerships.
  • Engage in a dynamic, multi-channel environment (inbound, outbound, Messenger, Teams, Zoom), applying deep dealer insight to diagnose root causes of operational inefficiencies and challenge substandard practices with authority and precision.
  • A direct line of support for all the dealerships (circa 4700), and as a team, the relationship lead for all groups outside of the top 100 acting as a strategic conduit between the network and internal stakeholders.
  • To support the dealer partner managers (DPM’s) with their dealership support requests and to be a supporting mechanism in their Top 100 group activity
  • Lead resolution of high-level customer complaints, navigate complex CNP and backdating scenarios, and facilitate strategic SMR discussions to elevate customer satisfaction.
  • Be able to support dealer groups through marketing best practises and use of the dealer marketing portal
  • Maintain and audit dealer data integrity, including Find a Dealer (FAD) systems to ensure accuracy for our customers
  • Respond rapidly and effectively to negative customer reviews
  • Promoting best practises within the business and the dealer network services – highlighting challenges and solutions
  • Execute administrative functions with precision and timeliness, fully aware of their downstream impact on dealer operations and customer experience.
You will act as a subject matter expert on dealership operations, resolving complex logistical and reputational issues with a dual focus on customer satisfaction and business sustainability.

About You

  • You will have a good knowledge of dealers, and how they operate alongside a keen interest in the automotive industry generally
  • You thrive in high-change environments and are adept at navigating uncertainty, adapting quickly to evolving processes and priorities. You will have a positive approach to change and be able to flex and adapt to fast moving and evolving ways of working
  • You have strong organisational skills and the ability to motivate people to deliver to the very best of their ability
  • You are a truly excellent B2B communicator who can build effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, at all levels
  • You are both autonomous and collaborative, able to lead initiatives independently while contributing meaningfully to team success.
  • You are confident in resolving escalated complaints and can articulate the commercial value of the Motability scheme to dealer partners.
  • You deliver difficult messages with clarity and empathy, maintaining trust and alignment.
  • You understand the digital transformation underway in the scheme and can guide dealers through this evolution.
Minimum criteria:
  •  Demonstrated understanding of dealer and dealer group operations.
  •  Proven ability to build and sustain high-value relationships.
  •  Track record of exceeding inbound performance KPIs.

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 800,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

  • We find solutions
  • We drive change
  • We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers.  It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, you can expect:

  • An annual discretionary bonus
  • 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
  • Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
  • Employee Discount Scheme with a huge number of retailers and an app to save on the go
  • Discounted Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
  • Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme (we have showers, changing rooms and secure bike sheds on site)

As well as financial benefits, our staff's health and well-being are very important to us, so we also offer:

  • 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
  • Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
  • Critical illness insurance
  • Free access to healthcare apps, such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP
  • Funded health screening for over 50s
  • 1 day per year to volunteer – Staff can support a local charity or do a sponsored event whilst being paid for it
  • Access to our fully accessible company allotment – Where we grow our own produce for local charitable organisations
  • Access to Prayer room and quiet spaces whilst working in the office

We also understand that not everyone is the same so offer several voluntary benefits that you can select outside the core package, these include;

  • Dental Insurance
  • Health and cancer screenings for you and your partner 
  • Discounted gym memberships
  • Charitable giving

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.  We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.

Please note, Motability Operations reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date. 

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