Dealer Inventory Solutions Lead

Impel; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Impel is seeking an expert on dealer inventory to ensure inventory shows up correctly on every site from day one. You will support complex launches, troubleshoot live accounts, and design inventory solutions, collaborating with Implementation and Support, and coordinating with inventory feed providers and third parties.

You will own escalations and QA through resolution, review feeds for accuracy including pricing and vehicle data, and help teams interpret inventory behavior with playbooks and

Qualifications

• Hands-on automotive experience at an inventory feed provider or dealer website provider.
• About 6–9 years of relevant experience, including owning complex inventory issues.
• Working knowledge of how inventory moves from DMS to feed provider to website, and where it breaks.
• Ability to review feeds (FTP/SFTP, CSV, XML, Excel) and spot problems quickly.
• Experience managing escalations and communicating status to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Existing, or quickly built, contacts at inventory partners.

Responsibilities

• Get launches right by reviewing inventory requirements, designing the feed and display approach with Implementation, and confirming feed source and first successful sync before go-live.
• Fix live issues at the root by diagnosing missing, stale or inaccurate inventory across the feed, provider and platform; own escalations to resolution.
• Manage partner relationships with regular status meetings and strong contacts at feed/website providers.
• Protect feed quality by reviewing feeds for accuracy and completeness, including pricing and vehicle data, and recommending fixes.
• Make the team smarter by helping interpret inventory behavior and maintaining escalation playbooks.

Skills

Automotive inventory knowledge

Inventory feed coordination

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

FTP/SFTP

CSV

XML

Excel

Job description

Impel is seeking an expert on dealer inventory to ensure inventory shows up correctly on every site from day one. You will support complex launches, troubleshoot live accounts, and design inventory solutions, collaborating with Implementation and Support, and coordinating with inventory feed providers and third parties.

You will own escalations and QA through resolution, review feeds for accuracy including pricing and vehicle data, and help teams interpret inventory behavior with playbooks and