ROI created a Business support centre in 2015 for the Global Fleet sales team in Sweden, managing a variety of tasks and processes to ensure that Volvo’s Sales team are as effective as possible in dealing with the world’s largest fleet operators.

An area that we felt could be improved was ensuring all of useful technical and sales information about the recently launched 90 series cars was packaged into a concise guide and that everyone who had contact with the customer had the best training and knowledge on new product. A difficult task when the sales team is spread over 10 countries.

Paul Black, part of ROI’s Global Fleet support team for Volvo, devised and managed a training event to disseminate Volvo’s strategy and technical expertise about the 90 series cars to Volvo’s team of sales people working round the globe. 20 Fleet sales team members had the chance to explore the Volvo S/V90 in detail, including the presentations from senior managers on the commercial background, product highlights and connectivity, as well as driving these innovative new cars in different conditions.

ROI is the market leader in helping vehicle manufacturers get their field team personnel in front of Fleet Decision Makers. We know every Sales & CRM technique and use the best technology to do this. However, a combination of factors led to us reviewing the logic and need for Field Sales face-to-face meetings being the only answer: changing ways in how remote communication and meetings are viewed, pressure on time, cost of running field teams, at what stage in the sales cycle a need for a face- to-face meeting is required, influence of sales person, and increasing the input of leasing or fleet management companies.

We conducted research with Fleet Decision Makers, brands and Field Team Managers to give us a robust set of data, leading to the eventual design of a Remote Customer Relationship Management solution.

Our first implementation of this solution has been with Honda UK, who challenged ROI to help them create a programme that allows the customer relationship to be maintained and increase customer service, whilst reducing their field sales team and investing in other areas. Early results have proved impressive and now two other manufacturers are working on a bespoke solution with ROI.

Field team efficiency is dependent upon a wide range of factors and getting optimised territory boundaries is crucial. ROI has been working with 20 brands over the last ten years and we understand the difficult balance for brands as Field teams change and the corresponding difficulty with home location vs. client disruption.

Therefore in 2014 ROI invested in Geo-mapping software that allows us to look at modelling the impact of various changes for both field team and SME Retailer programmes. We have now used the software with a number of brands, the latest being BMW UK.

Changes in the field team led to a project for ROI where we advised on matching the customers and prospect opportunities against the current field team structure and what various changes might mean when potential new personnel where considered. We were able to rapidly produce ‘impact charts’ showing how many customers might be affected by territory change and analyse the average drive times for a field team person over the course of one year.

Our recommendations were adopted by BMW UK and now the Field Team are working to this new territory structure.

The effective management of thousands of tasks such as Demonstrator requests, Agreement management or email enquiries is a challenge that every automotive manufacturer faces. Mostly these tasks are handled in individual software programs, inboxes or manual processes. Increasing pressure from Customers means turnaround times need to be made quicker and missing something, could mean lost sales.

A number of ROI clients, including Skoda, PSA Group and Honda are reaping the benefits of Resolve’s intelligent unified inbox and tracking methodology. All tasks are assigned a ‘ticket’ which is time stamped, categorised and given a priority. The system then distributes these tasks to the correct personnel who are trained to handle the specific tasks. All tasks are visible to the ‘task controller’ and they can see where tasks are building and can reallocate resources to ensure that things are dealt with correctly. Even if the ‘task controller’ misses’ things, resolve has clever business rules built in to automatically escalate or reroute tasks.

For more information and a demonstration of ROI Resolve’s capabilities, contact Lloyd Stretton or Simon Fretwell on 0870 460 5474

As well as running the Fleet programme for the PSA Group, the Fleet Business Centre also manages SME Retailer based activities.

After merging the Peugeot & Citroen sales operations earlier this year, ROI was able to then look at direct comparisons of the two brands activities in marketing & sales efficiency and make recommendations to improve both sales and processes.

A key area was analysing the relative success of Digital campaigns in converting to sales enquiries and the speed at which ROI can then filter and distribute to the Retail network.

The project resulted in ROI suggesting changes to the process, which after implementation, has seen an 800% year on year increase in the number of marketing enquiries received into the Peugeot fleet contact centre. These sales leads are now fed directly into the ROI CRM platform and followed up 100% faster, this has led to a smoother customer journey.

ROI has been certified to ISO9001:2008 for a number of years at its head office operation in Nantwich. We embarked upon a project to ensure that the new operation in Milton Keynes for VW Group also went through the same rigorous process to gain certification to the standard.  Part of that was future proofing the processes, by taking into account the new standard (ISO 9001:2015) that was introduced this year, with a greater focus on Senior Management involvement in the Quality System and ensuring the adoption of a Risk & Opportunity Management culture across the business.

Return on Investment (ROI) is a market leading B2B sales support agency within the automotive industry. The company has grown dramatically since its inception and now supports five offices: Milton Keynes, Nantwich, Gaydon, Whitley and Gothenburg in Sweden.

Our Milton Keynes office is looking to expand over the next 12 months; therefore we require high calibre people in a range of roles. The office is dedicated to supporting the Volkswagen Group and employs over 50 people engaged in supporting the Corporate Sales function in their day to day activity, playing a lead role in helping them increase their sales of Volkswagen Group vehicles on a business to business basis.

These challenging and varied full time roles will give you a fantastic chance to work alongside some of the world’s most successful and innovative car brands. Salaries are competitive and all roles are based in the Central Milton Keynes area.

Business Development Executive (B2B)

This is a crucial role in ensuring the customer facing VW Group field team personnel are supported in a variety of tasks and maximising their time in front of Corporate fleet decision makers.

The role is a busy, challenging position and will involve:
• Working with the dealership / Field-based Sales Managers to develop the sales territory
• Existing account management and booking account reviews
• Updating the CRM system with Fleet information and contact notes
• Working with the Dealership / Field Sales Manager to effectively plan territory-penetration, appointment setting for new business.

Our Business Centre is a busy, challenging place to work. To be successful in a business support role, you should be able to demonstrate:
• Excellent attention to detail and consistency in your administration
• A helpful, customer-oriented approach to working
• A calm, methodical disposition combining efficiency with the ability to solve customer’s problems and deliver results each and every time
• A good level of educational attainment
• Excellent written English and the ability to communicate effectively to a range of different external stakeholders.

Business Support Executive

ROI’s dedicated Fleet Business Centre in Milton Keynes provides an extremely important service to the VW Group. We have two dedicated teams providing administrative support to the Area Fleet Managers:

The Demonstration Team co-ordinates the provision of trial vehicles to both existing and prospective VW Group customers throughout the UK and across all five brands and the Agreements Team ensures that contracts are administered effectively when a sale is agreed.

The role is a busy, challenging position and will involve:
• Working with customers or prospect companies to ensure their needs are met and
• any changes or issues are communicated to them in a timely manner
• Ensuring accurate recording of information in the CRM system
• Capturing feedback and dealing with inbound customer service enquiries
• Daily interaction with 3rd party fleet management companies to locate the correct cars and manage the demo process

We are interested to hear from people at all stages of their career, but it will help your application if you have experience of:
• Working within a business services environment
• Using CRM systems / IT packages on a daily basis
• Working in a customer-service driven organisation.

Team Leader

The Team Leader’s role is varied and is responsible for day to day management of a Brand Development (appointment setting) team along with the delivery of Process and Quality across all VWG Brand Development teams.

Core responsibilities within the role include:
• Managing the delivery of performance through a team of Business Development Executives aligned to specific brands
• Ensuring process adherence across Brand Development Teams
• Quality checking and validating internal and external reporting
• Supporting the Operations Manager resolving customer issues
• Coaching and developing the established Assistant Team Leader community

successful candidate must be able to demonstrate:
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent Excel and data skills, including client reporting
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to spot errors in information
• Self-disciplined in ensuring accuracy at all times
• Articulate and well presented
• Experience of CRM systems

Operations Manager

This is an important client facing role and is responsible for the delivery of ROI’s Service Level Agreement (SLA) to our VW Group client. You will have overall leadership responsibility for a small business unit, managing a team of up to 20 people through direct reports to you.

Core responsibilities within the role include:
• Championing an environment of best practice where attention to detail and accuracy is vital
• Developing in depth knowledge of all high level procedures and to act as a point of reference for the client
• Assuring all key processes are mapped and the SLA’s in place are measured, monitored and reported
• Coach, develop, appraise and motivate the team

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate:
• You will have exceptional client facing skills, with an ability to manage multiple projects and troubleshoot where necessary
• Vehicle Leasing and/or Financial experience is highly desirable
• You will have excellent leadership skills able to direct and inspire the best from your team in a friendly, approachable manner
• You should be familiar with CRM systems
• You will demonstrate tenacity and resilience in ensuring delivery of service

Please send in your CV with an indication of which role you are interested in to matt.baty@roiltd.co.uk.
For an informal chat, please contact Matt Baty on: 07805 648 936

PSA Group, the second largest car manufacturer in Europe, decided to create synergies from joining key systems, processes and the UK Fleet sales teams in late 2015. This meant taking a set of experienced ‘single brand’ Field Sales Managers and completely re-writing the rule book in how they engaged with the market, CRM systems and processes underlying it.

ROI manages the Fleet Business Centre for both brands and a joint project was set up to ensure that the newly formed teams had the best start, looking at:

• Correct territory alignment, using ROI’s mapping software
• Revised sales and appointment opportunity plans
• Visit frequency & drive times
• Account hierarchy with ownership of records & targets for data accuracy
• Synchronised databases between previously separate brands

The project started smoothly with minimum disruption both internally and crucially with PSA’s important fleet customers.

One consistent part of ROI’s relationship with our clients is that they see us an agency that can provide solutions on time every time. Technology is an integral part of our offering because we combine our leading industry expertise with agile methods to deliver the right solution for our clients.

Jaguar Land Rover had an interesting problem as they needed to not only move agency for their Agreement processing and dealer payments but also replace a system that had been supporting the process over the last 7 years.

JLR tasked us with using our FleetCRM solution to deliver a complete replacement in 3 months to support over 50 head office and field personnel.

Our solution delivered:

• Agreement request process
• Authorisation workflows
• Dealer payment reconciliation
• Live integration with JLR’s European SAP implementation

This was a critical IT solution that had to ensure thousands of existing live agreements and 7 years of history worked first time on go live.

ROI has for the last 9 years continuously improved its specialist FleetCRM solution that is used now by 17 major vehicle manufacturers in both its internal Fleet area and also with their specialist Fleet Retailer network.

Pulse has been developed by our IT team to sit alongside the FleetCRM and over the last 3 years has ensured our clients receive only the best quality information at the right time. Many of our new solutions will be external facing client solutions such as our mobile Field Sales tool – engage. Pulse however sits behind the scenes and provides two vital functions:

It is our quality checking system for all appointment calls. Last year it tracked, recorded and helped our QA team score over 17,000 appointments to make sure that when we send a Brand or Retailer sales person, they are seeing the right person, at the right time, with a valid opportunity.

Secondly, Pulse can also automate a number of tasks to make the appointment process as efficient as possible: Pre-checking Telephone Preference Service, create and send out calendar invites to both parties and send a summary of the meeting reasons and report pdf.