Senior Manager Dealer Profitability

We have an exciting opportunity as:

Senior Manager Dealer Profitability & Systems (all genders welcome) at the Kia Europe Headquarters in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Job mission:

Channel, the Kia Europe department responsible for the Retail network, manages both strategic and operational activities with a strong cross-functional approach. The Senior Manager Dealer Profitability and Systems defines Kia Europe's strategic direction on dealer profitability and systems, ensuring their localization and implementation across countries. Key focus areas include maximizing dealer profitability and sustainability while safeguarding brand representation and customer satisfaction, and enhancing retail efficiency, performance, and customer satisfaction through dealer-related systems. As part of the Channel team, the Senior Manager also contributes to or leads all relevant Channel projects.

Your responsibilities:

Dealer profitability:

• Ensures all KEU countries have the necessary dealer profitability tools and processes, driving their effective implementation through local situation analysis, gap assessment, planning, and training.

• Leads the development and deployment of the Dealer Profitability Strategy in collaboration with Channel Network, Sales Academy, and other KEU stakeholders across countries.

• Monitors and analyzes dealer profitability, covering both income and expense aspects, and reports insights to Kia Europe top management and global headquarters.

• Drives pan-European improvement strategies and actionable initiatives with countries.

• Defines a medium to long-term Dealer Profitability Strategy for KEU aligned with the competitive environment and local dealer network structures, cascading mid-term planning tools for country-level adaptation.

Dealer systems:

• Defines Dealer Sales tools strategy to streamline in-dealer operations, integrating regulatory, customer, operational, business, and software modules.

• Ensures country-specific requests are incorporated, adhering to localized dealer system upgrades.

• Maintains strict timelines for pan-European and country-specific developments.

• Defines dealer training material for fast ramp-up.

Internal KEU dealer related systems:

• Ensures Channel's dealer systems remain the exclusive European source for dealer information.

• Maintains seamless integration of KEU internal dealer systems with upstream and downstream databases.

• Explores automation opportunities through holistic interfacing.

Your talents:

Education:

• University degree (Business/Marketing preferred).

Experience:

• Min. 10+ years experience in dealer profitability related fields with the following specifications: 

  • Dealer financial controller

  • Network financial controller

  • Network financial reporting

  • Financial risk

  • Dealer margin

  • Profitability forecast 

  • Business management

  • Dealer Network Financial performance

Skills:

• International headquarters implementation experience a strong plus.

• Strong project management skills and strategic mindset.

• Highly organized team player, negotiator, resilient, able to prioritize, customer-oriented and interpersonal skills.

• Fluent in English, additional European language(s) a plus.

Who are we?

Kia is a global mobility brand with a vision to create sustainable mobility solutions for consumers, communities, and societies around the world. Founded in 1944, Kia has been building motorcycles, cars and trucks for more than 75 years.

Kia is now spearheading the popularization of electrified and battery electric vehicles, developing a growing range of mobility services while encouraging millions of people to explore the best ways of getting around. Our brand slogan – 'Movement that inspires' – reflects our commitment to inspire consumers through our products and services.

Kia Europe is the European sales and manufacturing arm of Kia Corporation. From our headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, we lead 39 markets across Europe and the Caucasus, employing more than 5,500 persons, including about 3,500 blue collar workers in our state of the art car plant in Zilina, Slovakia.

Our headquarter is home to more than 40 different nationalities and this diversity is truly inspiring This means that every day at Kia is an opportunity to learn something new and to grow personally and professionally. The mix of ambitious and dynamic employees from all over the world is the fuel to our success. Do you have what it takes to join our team? We are looking forward to getting to know you

You will enjoy working with us if you like these things:

• A pulsating international environment. Our workforce is composed of people from more than 40 nations

• Playing an active and important part in the development of Kia in Europe.

• Developing new frameworks and solutions

• Demanding challenges to which you can creatively contribute

• A competitive compensation package; private leasing offer; systematic off and on-the-job training, free staff restaurant, support as concerns Health Management and more

If you're interested to become part of our Kia team, please apply via our online portal. We are looking forward to getting to know you.