Customer Specialist

CarMax; Myrtle Beach (SC); On-site; USD 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading used car retailer is looking for a Customer Specialist in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The role requires providing exceptional customer service, assessing vehicle conditions, and performing various administrative duties in a high-energy environment. Ideal candidates should possess a high school diploma, communication skills, and experience in sales/customer service. The position offers opportunities to grow within the company while ensuring a positive experience for customers during their buying or selling journey.

Qualifications

• Sales and customer service experience in retail preferred.
• Valid Driver’s License is required.
• Ability to perform multiple duties in a high-energy environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide exceptional customer service by guiding customers throughout the buying/selling process.
• Conduct vehicle condition assessments for appraisals.
• Perform administrative duties and maintain accurate transaction paperwork.
• Work as part of a team in a fast-paced retail environment.

Skills

Exceptional communication skills

Building and maintaining strong relationships

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Confidence in self and product

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

As a Customer Specialist, you will be empowered to provide an iconic experience for our Customers by acting as a guide and offering support during every step of their CarMax journey, reinforcing our simple and seamless process. While communicating and partnering effectively with teams across the organization, you will work to ensure each customer has a positive experience buying and selling cars. We’ve become the nation’s largest retailer of used cars due to our honesty and transparency, and those same values will help you succeed, too.

What you will do – Essential Responsibilities

• Provide exceptional customer service by guiding customers every step of the way, from sale or facilitating the appraisal to test drives and arranging financing applications
• Conduct vehicle condition assessments by collecting, recording, and communicating information to Buyers that will be used to perform customer appraisals
• Check in and receive vehicles that are shipped to CarMax; complete the daily scanning and reconciliation of vehicle inventory
• Perform cosmetic inspections and ensure that all vehicles meet CarMax Quality Standards
• Perform various administrative duties, including, but not limited to: printing daily reports, maintaining transaction paperwork, contacting finance companies regarding Customer contracts, obtaining requirement information regarding registration and/or titling, auditing completed paperwork, cash/payment management
• Create service appointments and review repair order invoices for retail service work performed; ensure accuracy of documentation for billing

Purpose of the role

This is a high-energy retail sales environment where you will work as a team to meet goals and handle a wide range of customer interactions. To make sure everything goes smoothly, the ability to quickly build rapport with people and understand their needs is essential. You will manage a variety of diverse tasks, with limited supervision, including vehicle sales, processing of sales paperwork, assessing vehicle condition for use in appraisals, and even managing repair orders. We work and learn as a team and the prospects are bright for professionals who aspire to become mentors, managers and business leaders.

Qualifications and Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Demonstrate exceptional communication skills
• Display confidence in self, the product and CarMax
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships
• Demonstrate strong team behaviors including integrity, respect, inclusion, fairness and fun
• Balance the needs of the Customer and the business when making decisions
• Seek to fully understand and meet Customer needs
• Create win-win solutions to Customer issues
• Get work done well, on time and follow the right process
• Drive work processes and pay close attention to detail
• Perform multiple duties in a high energy, fast-paced working environment
• Read, interpret and transcribe data in order to maintain accurate records
• Lift objects that weigh as much as 25 lbs.

Education and/or Experience

• High School Diploma, or equivalent
• Sales and customer service experience, in an area such as retail, preferred
• Valid Driver’s License
• Basic skills with Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., Word, Excel and PowerPoint) preferred

CarMax is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.