Regional Development Consultant

Tetra Tech, Inc.; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm is seeking a Regional Development Consultant in England. This role focuses on enhancing customer outcomes across the automotive sector through strategic sales consultancy. Responsibilities include developing sales strategies, consulting with dealerships, and identifying new sales opportunities. Ideal candidates have automotive industry experience, strong negotiation skills, and familiarity with financial accounts. This full-time position offers a competitive salary, bonuses, and various employee benefits including a pension scheme and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

10% on-target bonus

9% employer pension contribution

Car schemes for vehicles

Income protection, life assurance

Access to training and development

Qualifications

• Proven experience in the Automotive industry, ideally in Financial Services.
• Desirable experience of coaching in a sales environment.
• Ability to interpret and understand financial accounts.
• Experience in BI tools and Salesforce is a plus.
• Demonstrated negotiation skills and strategic thinking.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement sales strategies to achieve targets.
• Consult with dealerships and deliver effective consultancy activities.
• Identify sales opportunities through retailer visits.
• Present commercial recommendations to stakeholders.

Skills

Experience in Automotive industry

Coaching in sales environment

Understanding financial accounts

Using BI tools (e.g. Tableau)

Salesforce experience

Negotiation skills

Strategic thinking

Consultative approach

Entrepreneurial mindset

Tools

Tableau

Salesforce

Job description

Regional Development Consultant – South East (Kent, East Sussex)

HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE: Full Time Permanent, 35 hours per week.

We’re looking for a Regional Development Consultant to deliver good customer outcomes whilst working with our principal partners including VWG Brands, Retailers and Third-Party Introducers to drive customer loyalty, sales volumes and profitability of Finance, Insurance and Aftersales.

This field based role will be instrumental in visiting and working alongside all dealerships within your set geographical area, commuting distance from the location specified within this advert is very important and you may find yourself discounted if you do not live within a suitable travelling distance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a regional territory strategy and plans, centred on the promotion of sales practices driving good customer outcomes.
• Deliver on sales targets across New, Used, Aftersales, Renewals, Insurance, and Bank across allocated VWG Dealers.
• Utilise a range of face to face and remote communications to manage and deliver effective, efficient and targeted sales consultancy activities, within identified network partners.
• Develop and present clear, concise & influential commercial recommendations to influence investors at Boardroom & Divisional Director level.
• Implement and record recovery plans to remediate any identified performance shortfalls.
• Identify, through retailer visits, additional sales opportunities (BEV, Wholesale Funding, Leasing, Rental, Used Vehicle Purchasing, Digital Integration and Insurance), to support wider commercial objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience within the Automotive industry, ideally in a regulated Financial Services environment.
• Experience of coaching in a sales environment is desirable.
• Experience of understanding and interpreting financial accounts would be preferable.
• Experience in using BI tools (e.g. Tableau) and Salesforce is desirable.
• Tenacity, self-motivation, initiative with limited supervision.
• Highly developed negotiation skills.
• Curious to develop knowledge and ask probing questions to develop understanding.
• Ability to think strategically and demonstrate a forward looking mindset.
• Consultative approach, possessing strong active listening ability.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, particularly in relation to how digital technologies can help deliver performance.

What’s in it for you?

• Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance).
• Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%).
• 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).
• From Day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge.
• Benefits such as life assurance, critical illness cover, dental cover, cycle to work, and private medical insurance after probation.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning, professional development programmes and opportunities to build technical and soft skills.

Additional information

We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You'll have the opportunity to make a difference through successful partnership with our dealership network, helping us to achieve our mission.