Description
As our External Work Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring West Midlands Police vehicles are effectively, and cost efficiently and returned to operational service as quickly as possible.
You will take responsibility for overseeing the outsourced vehicle repairs, working closely with dealerships and body repair specialists to ensure high standards of service, value for money, and minimal downtime.
Combining your technical automotive knowledge with strong commercials awareness, you will assess repair requirements, challenge costs, manage supplier performance and identify opportunities to improve efficiency.
You will oversee external repair expenditure, manage relationships with key stakeholders, and support the effective prioritisation of repair to meet policing demand.
This is a varied and challenging management role, where you will have the opportunity to influence how our external repair services are delivered, drive continuous improvement and contribute to the wider management of our fleet workshop operations.
Your impact will be tangible: ensuring public money is spent wisely, improving vehicle availability, and ultimately helping to keep our officers and staff on the road.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage outsourced vehicle repairs
- Drive supplier performance
- Control costs, and deliver value for money
- Manage priorities and build relationships with stakeholders
- Effectively lead people and continuous improvement
Salary and Shifts
- Salary: Grade 7 - £44,700.00 - £50,949.00
- Shift patterns include shift allowance: No shift allowance as not working shifts.
- Hours: 07:00 – 15:00 or 15:30 with 30 mins Toil that we allow all our Vehicle ops staff to do.