LKQ Bodyshop Division, the bodyshop industry's leading complete service provider, has appointed Jodie Mullard as its new Channel and Technical Director. 

Jodie moves to the post after 18 months as Head of Channel, before which she was Director of Digital Customer Experience at LKQ Europe.

In her new role, she will support and contribute to the LKQ Bodyshop Division’s strategic vision, overseeing the development, implementation and execution of new solutions that align to its customer propositions and the wider LKQ UK & Ireland plan. 

Chris O’Rourke, Managing Director of LKQ Bodyshop Division, commented: “Jodie has been instrumental in the achievements of our bodyshop business in recent years, developing and implementing a strategy and long-term proposition designed around what bodyshops want and need – underpinned by the guiding principles of our Customer Promise.” 

LKQ Bodyshop Division’s technical and projects teams, led by Lee Berridge, Head of Technical and Training, and Ian Beasley, Bodyshop Project Manager, have now joined forces and will report directly into Jodie.

Jodie Mullard, Channel and Technical Director at LKQ Bodyshop Division added: “Our business achieved a huge amount last year thanks to the commitment, skills, passion and expertise of all of our colleagues, who go above and beyond to be there for customers as their supportive partner in a changing world. 

“We’ve come into 2024 with real momentum – voted by repairers as their Paint Distributor of the Year – and I’m looking forward to working with the team to keep leveraging our brilliance and difference to help customers of all sizes unlock sustainable and profitable growth.”

Established in 2013, LKQ Bodyshop Division is a complete solutions provider – going beyond products to offer aftersales support, training, insights and technical know-how.  

As well as a busy catalogue of training courses available through the LKQ Academy, the business is home to the market’s largest in-house training technical team – with more than 20 expert colleagues, with more than 700 years’ combined experience, who travel the country partnering with customers to maximise efficiencies and identify opportunities to drive their businesses forward.

The LKQ Bodyshop Division sits alongside LKQ Euro Car Parts, LKQ Leisure & Marine and Digraph as part of the LKQ UK & Ireland group of businesses – the market’s largest and leading distributor of parts and accessories for all cars, motorbikes, commercial vehicles and leisure and marine vehicles.