It’s all about peopleIt’s all about people
We put people at the centre of everything we do. Being curious about what the people around us need and want is key to creating safe, personalised and sustainable mobility solutions. If you believe in the power of people and share our respect for human-centric innovation, you'll thrive at Volvo Cars. We are people who care about other people. With us, you’ll be surrounded by brilliant, curious colleagues all committed to making a difference.
Let's introduce ourselves
Volvo Car Portugal is the Portuguese Sales Company, part of the Volvo Car Group. What sets us apart is our human-centered focus, forming the core of everything we create. The strength of Volvo Cars lies in a culture of collaboration, continuous development, and achieving results. We believe in bringing out the best in each other by optimally utilizing and developing the competencies of our employees.
To further build the world of tomorrow, Volvo Car Portugal, located in Lisbon, is looking for a Retailer Specialist. We value involvement and collaboration and understand the importance of reaching out especially given our hybrid work model. If you want to join us in our mission to make people’s lives less complicated, we offer you a chance to grow together with talented people who want to make a true difference!
Network and Business Development provide the ‘shop window’ and the foundations for our brand, our products, and our services. Reporting to the Business &Retailer Development Director, you will develop our retail partners and their data to enable them to flourish in terms of volumes, profit, and customer experience. You are responsible for ensuring that we have a profitable and effective franchise network, taking the very best practice from the brand and across the industry to drive performance improvement. You will be involved in several areas, such as Electrification projects, Retailer management, GDPR, and Data Maintenance.
What you'll do
In this role, you will be working directly with the identified retailers as well as observing, coaching, motivating, and implementing lasting change. You are a key driver of change and support the wider network and business development team with seamless integration of new and evolving business streams. You will negotiate and coordinate projects with key stakeholders, as well as develop and maintain a good relationship with stakeholders and all other internal departments across Volvo Car Portugal and forge a relationship of mutual trust and respect with the Retailer network.
Additionally, you will also be responsible for:
• Retailer Representation and Viability Plans
• Volvo Standards and Audits
• Volvo Retail Experience
• Legal matters regarding Dealer Contracts
• Dealer Financial Information – DCI
• Sustainability Strategy @ Retailers
• Quality Bonus management
• RPM – Retailer Performance Management
What you'll bring
We believe that you have experience of communicating and gaining buy-in at the most senior levels and with our retail partners. You are self-motivated and able to work autonomously with an agile attitude toward getting the job done.
Moreover, we’d like to see that you have knowledge in Excel and Power BI, a background in project management, strong administrative capacities, and that you are accustomed to working on different fronts simultaneously.
Your job will involve balancing multiple stakeholders so we expect that you are a strong collaborator who can manage both external and internal stakeholders. You understand the importance of not only managing the projects but also getting your hands dirty, hence we would like you to have a structured approach and the ability to follow up and follow through. You are able to work independently, which is important since we have introduced hybrid work and hence won’t see each other every day.
You master verbal and written communication in Portuguese as well as English to work intensively together on a professional level with both external and internal stakeholders.
Furthermore, you qualify by having: Other requirements:
• A MSc, BSc or similar within relevant area
• Excellent use of Microsoft Office suite and Power BI
• Experience in online business is considered a plus
• Availability to travel
Ready to Take the Next Step?Ready to Take the Next Step?
Please submit your application through our career page. Due to GDPR regulations, we’re unable to store or consider applications from other platforms. Make sure to submit your application in English.
Once your application is successfully submitted, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Applications are open until 6th of January 2025. We’re excited to get to know you!
Location: Lisbon (hybrid)
Volvo Cars – driving change togetherVolvo Cars – driving change together
Volvo Cars’ success is the result of a collaborative, diverse and inclusive working environment. Today, we’re one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with around 43,000 employees across the globe. At Volvo Cars, your career is designed around your skills and aspirations, so you can reach your fullest potential.
And it’s so exciting – we’re well on our way on our journey towards full electrification. We have five fully electric cars already on the market, and five more on the way. Our fully-electric and plug-in hybrid cars combined make up almost 50 per cent of our sales. So come and join us in shaping the future of mobility. There’s never been a more rewarding time to play your part in our inspiring and creative teams!
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