Regional Development Consultant

JOB TITLE: Regional Development Consultant

LOCATION: Field Based role covering the Central Region 

HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE: Full Time Fixed Term Contract until January 2027, 35 hours per week

CLOSING DATE: 19/05/2026 We reserve the right to close the advert earlier If we receive a high volume of applications.

At VWFS UK, we’re looking for a dynamic Regional Development Consultant who’s ready to make a real impact. Are you excited by the challenge of strengthening customer loyalty, driving sales performance, and boosting profitability across Finance, Insurance, and Aftersales? Do you thrive when partnering with retailers to deliver outstanding customer outcomes?

In this pivotal role, you’ll shape and execute regional strategies that champion effective sales practices and bring our wider Sales Strategy to life. If you’re motivated by influencing performance, building strong relationships, and turning insight into action, this could be the opportunity for you.

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:

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.

Why join VWFS UK?

You’ll have the opportunity to make a difference by helping us to achieve our mission.

Our mission is straight forward; we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn’t just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team.

This role does not meet the UKVI’s criteria for the skilled worker sponsorship route, therefore we are unable to accept candidates requiring sponsorship for this role.