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Spare Parts Administrator
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What they do
A Parts Specialist specializes in sales of spare and replacement parts. Assists customers in finding the correct parts for a product. Takes orders and tracks their progress.
$37,961 / year median in Virginia
+18% projected growth
Job Description
The Spare Part Administrator serves as the central point of contact for customers in the spare parts business, ensuring efficient, solution-oriented, and service-focused handling of all inquiries and orders. The role is responsible for timely case processing, proactive quotation follow-up, accurate order execution, and maintaining high customer satisfaction. Through structured case and backlog management, close collaboration with the Global Spare Parts Team, and continuous process improvement, the Spare Part Administrator contributes directly to increasing quotation quality, closing rate, hit rate, and ensuring fast, reliable end-to-end processing in the spare parts workflow. Core Tasks Act as the primary point of contact for customers regarding spare parts inquiries. Receive, prioritize, and process customer cases while ensuring complete and accurate documentation using the provided system landscape Maintain consistent follow-up on open cases, ensuring timely updates and transparency for the customer. Understand customer needs and expectations to drive high satisfaction and customer loyalty. Communicate professionally with customers regarding prices, lead times, technical clarifications, and negotiations. Collaborate closely with the rest of the Global Spare Parts Team to ensure alignment, escalations, and best-practice handling. Prepare, manage, and proactively follow up on quotations to increase hit rate and closing rate. Execute order processing accurately and on time, ensuring a smooth customer experience. Maintain low processing times for both quotations and orders. Support the entire spare parts process from inquiry to quotation to order confirmation and invoice Coordinate with the Global Spare Parts Team for complex cases, pricing alignment, or cross-regional spare parts needs. Monitor, control, and structure the backlog to ensure timely completion of all requests. Use KPIs such as quotation throughput time, quote-to-order ratio, and response time to steer daily activities. Collaborate with the rest of the Global Spare Parts Team to ensure global standards and performance metrics are met. Identify efficiency opportunities across the inquiry, quotation, and order processes. Actively contributes to improvement initiatives, process harmonization, and the implementation of global best practices. Drive customer satisfaction through improved service quality, communication transparency, and process reliability.