Client Services Manager - (B2B) – Automotive Sector

Manheim by Cox Automotive; Coventry; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Exclusive discounts

Cashback offers

Birthday off paid

Well-Being Day

Charity Day

Career progression

Option to buy additional holiday days

Job summary

Manheim Vehicle Services, part of Cox Automotive, is seeking a Client Services Manager (B2B) to lead a small customer support team and manage relationships with high-profile automotive clients in Coventry.

This role focuses on proactive communication, delivering timely service updates and ensuring contractual service levels across a portfolio of key accounts, with opportunities for career progression. You'll be the trusted point of contact, driving customer satisfaction and service improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting business-to-business customers, ideally within automotive or service-led contract environments.
• Proven ability to lead and develop a small team.
• Strong communication with professional stakeholders and clients.

Responsibilities

• Act as day-to-day relationship lead for key contracted B2B accounts.
• Provide proactive updates on vehicle progress and service delivery.
• Manage customer queries and escalations to ensure positive outcomes.
• Attend client calls and account review meetings with commercial stakeholders.
• Build relationships with key contacts to support retention and partnerships.
• Coach and develop a small customer support team (3).
• Ensure service levels and contractual commitments are met with operational teams.
• Identify improvements to enhance customer experience.

Skills

B2B customer service

Relationship management

Team leadership

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Client Services Manager (B2B) – Automotive Sector

Coventry

40 hours per week (Mon-Fri)

Lead relationships. Deliver exceptional service. Keep clients happy.

At Manheim Vehicle Services, part of Cox Automotive, we support customers across the automotive sector with high-quality vehicle preparation and remarketing services.

As our customer base continues to grow, we’re looking for a Client Services Manager (internally referred to as a Service Delivery Team Manager) to lead a small customer support team and manage relationships with a portfolio of high-profile B2B automotive clients.

This is not a consumer contact centre role. You’ll be working closely with established commercial customers, providing service updates, managing queries and ensuring contractual service expectations are consistently delivered.

You’ll become a trusted point of contact for key accounts, helping to maintain strong long-term client relationships through excellent communication, responsiveness and problem-solving.

Why Join Us & What’s In It For You?

As a Cox Automotive team member, you’ll have access to a wide range of benefits, including exclusive discounts, cashback offers and our brilliant peer to peer recognition scheme. And there’s even more to enjoy:

• Option to buy additional holiday days
• Your birthday off every year - paid
• One annual Well-Being Day for you to relax and recharge
• One paid Charity Day to give back and support a cause that matters to you
• Opportunities for career progression across the Cox Automotive network

About the Role:

This is a customer-focused leadership role where you’ll oversee service delivery across a portfolio of key contracted customer accounts.

You’ll lead a small team of customer support colleagues, ensuring customers receive proactive communication, timely updates and a consistently high standard of service.

Working closely with operational teams, you’ll help ensure contractual expectations are met, customer issues are resolved quickly and relationships with key stakeholders remain strong.

You’ll also play an important role in identifying opportunities to improve customer experience and strengthen service delivery.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Acting as the day-to-day relationship lead for key contracted B2B customer accounts
• Providing proactive updates to customers on vehicle progress, service delivery and operational performance
• Managing customer queries, complaints and service escalations professionally, ensuring positive outcomes
• Attending client calls, account review meetings and service discussions with commercial stakeholders
• Building strong working relationships with key customer contacts to support retention and long-term partnerships
• Leading, coaching and developing a small customer support team (3), ensuring a consistently high standard of service
• Working closely with operational teams to ensure service level expectations and contractual commitments are met
• Identifying service improvements to enhance customer experience and strengthen client satisfaction

What We’re Looking For

We’re particularly interested in people with experience supporting business-to-business customers, ideally within automotive, fleet, logistics or other service-led contract environments.

You may currently be working as a:

• Customer Service Team Leader (B2B)
• Account Support Manager
• Customer Operations Team Leader
• Service Delivery Team Leader or Coordinator
• Account Coordinator or Client Relationship Lead

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has experience managing relationships with business customers rather than high-volume consumer enquiries
• Is confident communicating with professional stakeholders and representing the business in customer meetings
• Has experience managing customer complaints, escalations and service recovery professionally
• Understands service levels, contractual expectations or customer KPIs
• Enjoys leading and developing small teams
• Is organised, calm under pressure and naturally solutions-focused
• Can build credibility and strong relationships with both customers and internal teams

Experience within automotive, fleet or vehicle services would be highly desirable, although we’d also welcome applications from candidates with strong B2B customer service experience in other sectors.

Why This Role?

This is an opportunity to join a growing business where you’ll have real ownership, visibility and the chance to make a genuine impact on customer relationships and service performance.

If you enjoy building strong client relationships, solving problems and leading a small team to deliver excellent service, we’d love to hear from you.

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