Senior Manager Dealer Profitability & Systems

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

At Kia, we are a global mobility brand with more than 75 years of experience. Since our founding in 1944, we have grown from manufacturing bicycles, motorcycles and cars to becoming a provider of mobility solutions, always guided by the changing needs of our customers.

Today, we continue to expand our portfolio of electrified and battery electric vehicles while developing new mobility services. Guided by our brand slogan, Movement that Inspires, we are exploring new ways to make mobility more convenient and relevant for people's everyday lives. Through continuous innovation and a customer‑centric approach, we aim to create products and services that inspire new possibilities and meaningful connections.

As the European sales and manufacturing arm of Kia Corporation, we support 39 markets across Europe and the Caucasus from our headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. Together, we are more than 5,500 colleagues, including around 3,500 team members at our manufacturing facility in Žilina, Slovakia.

At our European headquarters, more than 50 nationalities work side by side, bringing different perspectives, experiences and ideas. This diversity is one of our strengths and contributes to the way we work, learn, and grow together. Every day brings opportunities to collaborate, develop new skills, and contribute to our shared…