Sales Manager

To support the local French Business Operations – Mobility and Innovation - division of a global automotive brand with office in Paris, we are looking for a dynamic and motivated 'Sales Manager' with relevant and hands-on experience in network activation.

You will be developing, rolling out and governing the business & profitability strategy framework & organisational structure in view of mobility products offering, incl. business expansion plan across Europe. This includes business strategy analysis locally and on-going alignment with pan-E strategy, as well as coordination across entities in Europe.

This also includes the support for implementation of new mobility product within the local entities.

In addition, a governance & reporting system is to be established to ensure correct implementation and on-going compliance with European guidelines.

You are also managing high level internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment and securing management expectations.

More concretely this means

• Interface with and act as a liaison between Markets, various Regional Functional Departments and Senior Management for approvals, advice, open issues, and general co-ordination.
• Country Management: Establish, introduce & continuously evolve the pan-E business strategy framework for Mobility asset-based services/products incl. profitability structure and regular performance analysis and reporting.
• In alignment with the strategy, build & evolve the Business Strategy organisation on European level to support roll-out and on-going governance of mobility business across Europe.
• In the mid-term help the local markets in establishing an operational organisation to operate mobility business.
• In close coordination with the Product & Operations team, support the analysis and evolution of the pan-E product strategy framework to further improve the Business growth.
• Monthly review of business performance including analysis of KPI´s and reporting thereof to Regional Management. Involvement and alignment of annual business plan and target setting processes
• Communication to existing locations of operational and strategic guidelines and policies established at Regional (or global) level, to ensure clear understanding and implementation by local management.
• Assist/guide local entities in seeking approval for mobility products e.g., vehicle subscription, carsharing, from HQ.
• Organise activities to share key initiatives and learnings between local entities and the HQ
• Resource management of internal and external project resources
• Regular reporting to management on status of projects
• Identify and implement synergies strategies across countries, including time & cost savings

Your profile

Education

Master Degree

Experience

• You have minimum 5 years’ experience in business and/or product strategy, with a link to network activation, ideally worked in fleet and/or mobility industry.
• You have experience in Business management – projects, budget, reporting etc.
• You dispose strong numerical & analytical skills
• You have good project management and coordination skills and have experience in managing multiple internal & external stakeholders at all level of the organisation.
• You have the ability to communicate effectively across different stakeholders in different entities and achieve consensus
• Organized, structured mind and good presentation skills
• Good time management – able to work under pressure and dedicated to meet variable deadlines
• Excellent team player and collaboration skills
• Result driven and performance mindset
• Motivated and persevering.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, etc)

Language: Fluent in French and English (corporate language).

You have the right DNA, this means you

• - Courage : you are ready to let go of the easy path to reach challenging targets
• - Collaboration : you are a team player, respectful and inclusive in your style and you take a customer-oriented approach
• - Creativity : your passion drives you to explore innovative ideas and challenge the impossible
• - Curiosity : you combine imagination and fact-based observation
• - Coaching : you share knowledge and feedback with your colleagues and celebrate each other’s success