Service Advisor

Rygor Group; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthday day off

23 days annual leave

Employer of the Year

Great Place to Work

Wellbeing program

Employee Assistance Program

Annual appraisals

Training opportunities

Branded uniform

Pension

Armed Forces Covenant

Job summary

Rygor Auto in Gloucester is seeking a dedicated Service Advisor to maximise service and repair bookings, ensuring resources are available and work is scheduled efficiently.

You will develop strong customer service, upsell after-sales services, update customers on repair times and status, and liaise with Parts to ensure parts availability. You will also produce estimates, job cards and invoices.

Qualifications

• Experience in administration or office environments.
• Strong communication skills to keep stakeholders informed.
• Previous service advisory experience preferred.
• Kerridge knowledge preferred.

Responsibilities

• Dealing with customers and ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Utilise workshop loading and ensure it is up to date.
• Regularly and proactively keep customers up to date with progress on their vehicle
• Booking in vehicles and scheduling appointments in line with workshop capacity.
• Identify customer requirements and provide accurate, fully inclusive costing.
• Produce accurate job cards, invoices, estimates and related information.
• Explain work carried out to customers and highlight add-on opportunities.
• Produce warranty job cards per manufacturers' policy.
• Record all work requirements and classify repairs as retail, warranty, internal or non-chargeable.
• Liaise with Parts to ensure availability of parts.

Job description

42.5 hours: 07:00 to 15:30, Monday to Friday. Alternate Saturdays 07:00 to 12:00.

Your Role: Role Level on the Rygor Career Journey Map: C1, Individual Contributor

At Rygor Auto, we are looking for a dedicated Service Advisor to join our team in Gloucester. If you are dedicated to providing exceptional customer service and can confidently and efficiently maximise service and repair bookings to ensure all resources required in completing the work are available and on schedule - this is the role for you!

The right candidate will have exceptional customer service skills and deliver the highest quality customer experience. You will approach this role with a commercial mind, actively selling after sales services in a customer-orientated manner (i.e.: service contracts), ensuring the workshop is working to full capacity by effectively scheduling customer bookings.

You will be committed to taking responsibility for managing the customer service journey, updating customers on repair times and status, estimates and gaining approval for additional work.

Day to day, you will be:

• Dealing with customers and ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Utilise workshop loading and ensure it is up to date.
• Regularly and proactively keep customers up to date with progress on their vehicle
• Booking in vehicles. Ensuring appointments are convenient for the customer and department, in line with the workshop capacity.
• Identify the customer requirements and where possible, supply an accurate fully inclusive costing.
• Produce accurate job cards, invoices, estimates and related information.
• Provide customers with full explanations of work carried out, making the most of any additional selling opportunities.
• Produce warranty job cards in line with the manufacturers policy and procedures.
• Accurately record all work requirements and identify retail, warranty, internal and non-chargeable repairs.
• Liaise with the Parts Department to ensure availability of parts

Skills & Behaviours Required for this Role:

• You have previous working experience in administration and/or office environments
• You have strong communication skills as this role is pivotal in ensuring that all stakeholders are accurately informed.
• Previous experience as a service advisor, preferable.
• Kerridge knowledge, preferable.

Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they meet 100% of the criteria. As long as you are experienced for the role, and hold the relevant and required qualifications, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t feel like you meet all our requirements. We want to know about your passions, achievements, learning and growth. If this role excites you, start a conversation with us!

• An extra day off for your Birthday
• 23 days of annual leave per year PLUS Bank Holidays
• Working for Motor Trader's 'Employer of the Year'.
• Working for an official Great Place to Work and UK Best Workplace.
• Working for a Best UK Workplace for Wellbeing and Development.
• Awarded Armed Forces Covenant Silver Award (RLS)
• Working with our award-winning team - we are Motor Trader's CV Employer of the Year and won silver at the internal communication and engagement awards for our new starter onboarding process.
• Auto-enrolment pension.
• Rygor Group Ranked 101 in SW Business Insider's Top 500 Companies
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay policies.
• Access to our wellness programme and Employee Assistance Programmes, including WeCare from Canada Life (EAP and 24HR Online GP access and second Medical Opinion).
• Mental Health First Aiders.
• Reward and recognition programmes, including our annual Rygor Group Awards and opportunities to attend the Rygor Wembley box as a celebration of your hard work and dedication.
• Annual appraisals programme and progression opportunities.
• Manufacturer training and access to our in-house training.
• Long service recognition and annual leave increase after 5 years' service.
• Branded uniform
• Charities of the Year programme, Army Sport sponsors and community engagement initiatives

We're looking for incredible team members who share our values and can add to our culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals.

Rewarding

Reliable

Respectful

What's it like to be part of Team Rygor?

"Rygor is a great place with equal opportunities for everyone and they are Rewarding, Reliable and Respectful and choosing Rygor to grow your career is something no one can regret."- Patrick, Technician

We are an award-winning, multi-franchise Dealer Group with branches across England, offering extensive coverage for customers throughout the M5, M4 and M42 corridors. Our business has gone from strength to strength in recent years, with significant investment in site renovations nationwide and exciting expansions, including the launch of a brand-new Mercedes-Benz Passenger Car Aftersales facility in 2024.

Our commitment to excellence has earned us multiple industry and network awards, and in 2025, we were proud to be named Employer of the Year at the prestigious Motor Trader Awards. We also received the Silver award for our onboarding experience at the ICE awards, meaning that if you're considering a new career with Rygor, you can be confident you'll receive an award-winning induction and support from day one.

We're officially a Great Place to Work and our company culture truly reflects our core values: Rewarding, Reliable, and Respectful. Exceptional customer service is at the heart of what we do and so is creating an environment where our team can thrive.

Rygor Group comprises of a diverse collection of UK automotive businesses, with a primary focus on trucks, vans, coaches, passenger cars, armoured vehicles, body repairs and coachbuilding. Through the hard work of our team members, we have secured our position as one of the UK's top automotive Groups, with a turnover of circa £300m a year.

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