Cessnock Toyota’s Matthew Stamp is currently the only car sales consultant in Australia to have won not one, but two national Toyota Sales Walkaround awards as part of the company’s national skills contest.
Now, Stamp is preparing for the chance to win a third national title after progressing through the regional finals held recently at Toyota head office in Sydney.
The annual awards are designed to test the salesperson’s product knowledge, with the name coming from the ‘walkaround’ tour that is performed around the car during the entrant’s sales presentation.
Stamp has been a sales consultant at Cessnock Toyota since 1997 and says that the competition is a great incentive to stay on top of his game.
“It is a real test of your product knowledge which is obviously very important in my role. It is more or less a test of qualifying skills, to get people the right deal for the right car and not a great deal on the wrong car,” Stamp told The Cessnock Advertiser.
The Toyota national skills contest recognises outstanding achievements in the categories of: service advisor, service technician, diagnostic technician, parts sales representative, parts interpreter, vehicle sales and customer experience managers.
More than 5000 dealer staff were eligible to take the first online quiz in March with the regional finalists then determined through a series of quizzes and in-dealer assessments.
Stamp will now compete at the national finals in Sydney in November where he has the chance to once again make history if he takes out a third national title.
He is also a Toyota gold executive mentor which acknowledges the efforts of sales consultants who consistently over achieve in the areas of sales, training and customer satisfaction.
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