Strategic Vehicle Allocation & Distribution Leader

Stellantis NV; Auburn (AL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellantis North America is seeking a Director of Vehicle Allocation & Distribution to lead allocation strategies, inventory deployment, and dealer distribution across brands and markets. You will align supply with demand, optimize profitability, and drive governance across the dealer network.

You will guide the Stellantis Allocation & Distribution Platform transformation, modernizing workflows, analytics, dashboards, and operating routines while promoting automation and data-driven decision

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 10+ years automotive industry experience.
• 7+ years of leadership experience managing teams and complex operations.
• Extensive knowledge of vehicle ordering, inventory management, production planning, supply chain, and dealer operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and govern vehicle allocation strategies across Stellantis North America brands.
• Ensure allocation methodologies support profitability, market demand, dealer performance, network health, and business objectives.
• Establish allocation governance processes, decision frameworks, executive escalation routines, and audit-ready controls.
• Maintain transparent, consistent, and equitable allocation decision making across the dealer network.
• Direct vehicle distribution planning and inventory deployment strategies across business centers and dealer channels.
• Optimize dealer inventory health, days supply, turn rates, vehicle mix, and market coverage.
• Balance supply constraints, demand forecasts, production availability, and operational risks.
• Develop strategies that support efficient vehicle flow from production through retail delivery.
• Embed profitability guardrails into the allocation process and distribution decision making.
• Support volume, market share, inventory, dealer network health, and financial objectives.
• Analyze allocation outcomes against sales, margin, inventory, and dealer performance targets.
• Provide executive recommendations supported by data, scenario modeling, and business impact analysis.
• Champion implementation, adoption, and continuous improvement of the Stellantis Allocation & Distribution Platform.
• Drive modernization of allocation workflows, business rules, approval processes, dashboards, and operating routines.
• Support consolidation and retirement of fragmented legacy allocation and distribution processes.
• Promote automation, advanced analytics, AI-enabled decision support, and business-user configurability.
• Oversee allocation analytics, operational dashboards, executive scorecards, and KPI reporting routines.
• Use predictive analytics, forecasting, and scenario planning to improve allocation effectiveness.
• Ensure data integrity, reporting clarity, and transparency into allocation outcomes and business performance.
• Translate insights into actionable recommendations for senior leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelors degree

Job description

Stellantis North America is seeking a Director of Vehicle Allocation & Distribution to lead allocation strategies, inventory deployment, and dealer distribution across brands and markets. You will align supply with demand, optimize profitability, and drive governance across the dealer network.

You will guide the Stellantis Allocation & Distribution Platform transformation, modernizing workflows, analytics, dashboards, and operating routines while promoting automation and data-driven decision