JOB TITLE: Regional Development Consultant - Porsche Financial Services
SALARY: Up to £52,000 pa dependent on experience
LOCATION: Maidstone/Crawley/Epsom Field Based
HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE: Full Time Permanent (35 hours per week)
CLOSING DATE: 06/11/2025 We reserve the right to close the advert earlier If we receive a high volume of applications.
At VWFS UK, we are seeking a Regional Development Consultant to drive customer loyalty, sales volumes, and profitability across Finance, Insurance, and Aftersales specifically covering Porsche. You will work closely with our Porsche Centres to deliver excellent customer outcomes. A key part of this role is developing and implementing regional strategies to promote effective sales practices aligned with our wider Sales Strategy.
Please note that this role is field-based and covers the London & South East England
What you’ll be doing:
- Develop and implement a regional territory strategy to drive sales targets across New, Used, Aftersales, Renewals, Insurance, and Bank.
- Manage and deliver targeted sales consultancy activities through face-to-face and remote communications.
- Conduct deep-dive business and performance analysis to enhance customer sales journeys.
- Influence stakeholders at Boardroom and Divisional Director levels with clear, concise commercial recommendations.
- Negotiate rates and terms with retailers to meet budgeted plans and performance targets.
- Identify additional opportunities for centre digital platform integrations and potential used 'Tier 2' sites.
- Maintain an understanding of regulatory obligations and ensure all activities align with treating customers fairly.
- Create detailed visit reports and action plans to ensure effective stakeholder engagement.
- Support retailer partners through VWFS-led transformation programmes and market changes.
- Increase centre product knowledge by promoting adherence to VWFS training and development assets.
What you’ll bring:
You will be credible with proven sales and retailer experience and have gravitas to build effective working relationships within our retailer network. You will be customer centric and passionate about delivering an exceptional service to represent our exciting and luxury brands.
This isn't just a job; it is a chance to make an impact, develop your sales skills and enjoy being part of a fast-paced team.
Essential experience & skills
- Demonstrable experience in sales processes and account development.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with a proven track record of consulting, negotiating, and influencing.
- Proficiency in using BI tools (e.g., Tableau) and Salesforce is desirable.
- Self-motivated with excellent negotiation skills and a strategic mindset.
- Ability to operate agilely, think strategically, and demonstrate an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Strong analytical skills to identify performance trends and determine effective actions.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present confidently.
- Proactive, flexible, and able to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Significant experience in financial services and/or the automotive sector with an understanding of the regulatory environment – desirable
- Experience working within a retailer network - desirable
What’s in it for you?
Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)
Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.
Car schemes*: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance and Fuel Card
OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.
Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).
Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.
We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.