Director of Sales Italy | Ref 00093

Director of Sales Italy | Ref 00093

Sales / Remarketing |

Milano , Italy

Piazzale Luigi Cadorna
Lombardia

Milano

| AUTO1 Group

Founded in 2012, AUTO1 Group is now Europe’s leading car trading platform. As an independent multi-brand platform, AUTO1 Group is aimed primarily at the used car trade and offers over 60,000 professional partners the opportunity to access a diversified portfolio of more than 30,000 vehicles. By connecting buyers and sellers through technology the company enables dealers and consumers to trade seamlessly throughout Europe. The company’s well-known brands are AUTO1.com, wirkaufendeinauto.de and Autohero. AUTO1 Group matches supply and demand for used cars in over 30 countries. In 2018 the company sold more than 540,000 vehicles and achieved revenues of €2.9 billion.

For more information please visit www.auto1-group.com.

For our HQ in Italy, we’re looking for a Director of Sales. 

This role reports in to the VP Italy and has the main objective continuously improving our customer service, operational efficiency and profitability.

Your contribution to Auto1 Group: 

• Deliver the strategy and translate this into processes and structures in order to ensure the operational planning by gaining a clear understanding of the range of goods and services and becoming a source of expert knowledge.
• Ensuring that correct standards are set and applied, with particular reference to finance and accounting, personnel management, health and safety.
• Build and lead teams with a focus on strategic alignment, quality of execution, and career progression.
• As Director you take over full responsibility of business and performances of the department you will look after. 
• Challenge traditional ways of working in order to find out the best solution by Balancing Price and Quality. 

What you should bring:

• A Master‘s degree with a focus in Business, Consulting or Finance from a leading university. 
• A proven record in the technical, commercial and legal aspects of purchasing.
• Delivering results and ensuring operational excellence. Creates and monitors high standards of data, demonstrates strong analytical, problem-solving skills and a “can do” attitude.
• Managing across boundaries. Builds and uses networks. Encourages collaboration and creates consensus, communicates effectively, influences and negotiates.
• Minimum 5 Year work experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in Italian and English. German is a plus. 

What you will get:

• Contributing to the success of a hyper-growth company and being part of the digital revolution in the car business.
• The possibility to shape one of the most exciting startups and one of the few unicorns in Europe.
• Working in an international environment requires some traveling.
• An attractive salary package with a fixed and variable part.

The 2019 “Decreto Crescita”, will take effect from 1st January 2020, provides facilities for the return to Italy of workers from abroad.

Income that will be produced in Italy by workers who will transfer their residence in Italy, it is expected that the IRPEF tax base is reduced by 70%. To do so it is necessary that the workers have not been resident in Italy in the last 2 years and they commit to staying in Italy for at least two years.