Warranty Administrator

Overview

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• Conducts analysis of the Warranty versus the customer complaint and workshop diagnosis to ensure that warranty claim is justified before presenting it to the factory. This includes circulating factory notifications on guidelines for workshop repair and diagnosis as and when needed
• Understands and analyses the Warranty evidence in terms of claim coverage and outside it to facilitate the warranty claims’ acceptance and approval.
• Guides the Service Advisor on claims’ acceptance to educate and provide appropriate feedback to customers. This includes responding to related queries, familiarising and providing guidance with technical manual and ensuring customers are furnished with a copy
• Collects, scrutinizes and submits relevant documentation to the factory to ensure accuracy and timely processing of claims in compliance with Warranty policies and procedures. This includes identifying outstanding ageing claims, investigating causes for rejected claims, rectifying errors related to documentation and/or otherwise and resubmitting them
• Ensures the collection and appropriate tagging/coding and storage of defective parts to conform to Warranty guidelines. This includes consistently inspecting defective parts in readiness for the parts audit carried out by the Factory Representative on a monthly basis
• Ensures all defective parts are scrapped as per Warranty policy guidelines. This includes preparing a list or parts to be scrapped.
• Submits processed claims and monitors payments to ensure prompt payment from the factory. This includes reconciling credit notes and payments received with the recorded warranty value.
• Submits claims payment report to Finance and justifies any payment variance to draw attention to non-warranty related reasons such as labour or parts overcharge
• Coordinates and prepares technical reports on product defects to provide feedback to the Principal to take the necessary actions. This includes handling or controlling the service recalls and measures process in view of safety to highlight any defects after the vehicle is released and help assigning incentives based on achieved target rate
• Uploads any new policy guidelines and procedures for handling claims to create continuous awareness and help resolve any key concerns (e.g. those related to GAP Warranty or permissible warranty extension in relation to vehicle age and mileage limitations)

Qualifications

• High School Certificate/ Diploma (12 years of school education)
• Automotive Technician Diploma or equivalent from a recognised institute

Experience

• Minimum 3-4 years’ experience as a Service Advisor in a reputed automobile workshop

Knowledge & Skills

• Sound understanding of the automotive service industry
• Knowledge of a Workshop Model and Operations
• Written and verbal communication in English (other regionally spoken languages including Arabic would be an added advantage)
• Well organised & effective plans in all situations.
• Methodical approach for better inputs, result oriented
• Sets and achieve highest work standard at all the times.
• At Al Rostamani Group, we seek talented people who work hard to achieve great things.
• We consider not only your skills and experience, but also your passion for the role, your desire to learn and how well you align with our core values of care, commitment and vision.
• If this position represents an opportunity you wish to pursue, we invite you to apply.