About Auto Trader
You’ve probably heard of Auto Trader, but do you know what we’re all about?
We’re the UK’s leading automotive marketplace, a heritage brand, and a tech darling of the stock market. We bring together vehicle buyers and sellers to give them real choices. Cars may be what we're best known for but we’re also the place for pretty much everything else on wheels, from e-bikes to caravans.
In the automotive world, change is a constant, that’s why we take our job of untangling the complex car-buying journey very seriously.
At our core, we’re all about people. We go our own way while embracing diversity and celebrating our differences. We dedicate ourselves to the idea that we work better together.
Auto Trader is a beautiful, surprising and vibrant place to work. We might not be for everyone, but we could be perfect for you.
About the role
We’re looking for a Performance Manager to join our Sales & Customer Partnerships team in Manchester. The Performance Manager role focuses on empowering car retailers and manufacturers to optimize product performance, leverage data-driven insights, and drive success in the digital car marketplace through strategic collaboration and best practice sharing.
In this collaborative role, you will work closely with car retailers, manufacturers, and internal teams to champion our innovative New Car product. In this strategical role, your responsibilities will include driving stock and retailer volumes, proactively identifying commercial opportunities, and mitigating risks to ensure success for both our customers and Auto Trader.
With a strong foundation in product knowledge, a curious mindset, and access to our industry-leading data, you will empower retail customers and manufacturers to stay competitive in today’s digital-first marketplace.
By collaborating with car retailers and manufacturers, you’ll help optimise product performance and build engagement through sharing best practices, supporting stock listings, delivering training, and resolving challenges. You’ll simplify complex data and products, aligning them with customer goals and strategies to meet the expectations of today’s online car buyers.
Additionally, you’ll partner with internal teams, including our Account Managers and Account Directors, to share insights, provide product updates, and unlock new commercial opportunities for their customers.
You might believe that a passion for cars and knowledge of the automotive industry is a requirement, but guess what? It’s not! We're looking for people who are passionate about achieving customer success, mitigating risk and driving return on investment while maximising new opportunities.
Think of this role as a hybrid, combining elements of an Account Manager, Customer Success Manager, and Performance Manager to drive product success, but without the need to be a car enthusiast.
What we're looking for
- Experience working with customers to embed products and improve engagement and performance.
- You will be confident to work with and challenge both internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience in using data to tell a story and you’ll be confident using Excel or other insight tools such as Looker.
- You will be commercially minded and will have experience achieving or exceeding team targets and KPI’s
- You will be proactive and have a collaborative approach which allows you to spot opportunities, risk and drive change forward.
Finally, we’re looking for someone who is curious and excited to become an expert, and drive growth, of our New Car product.
At Auto Trader, we believe that every candidate brings a unique blend of talents. If you find yourself ticking some, but not all, of the requirement boxes, we'd love to hear from you.
Benefits and more
We’re offering a salary up to £45,000 plus an additional 10% of your salary awarded to you in shares each year. These awarded shares will become yours in yearly installments over the next three years, and you can choose to either sell them or keep them as shares. And you'll receive 29 days holiday, plus bank holidays and comprehensive private medical cover.
That’s not all. We have employee pension contributions up to 7%, enhanced family leave provisions, a car salary sacrifice scheme, share-save options, and much more.
We always want to give you the support you need and help prioritise your wellbeing, that’s why we provide access to 24/7 online GP and dentist, as well as specialist support for assisted fertility, gender dysphoria, menopause, period care plans and lots more.
On top of all that, our hybrid model, Connected Working, combines the best of both worlds – office and home working. You’ll have two fixed weekly office days for team collaboration and one more of your choice to suit your work-life balance.
Additionally, during July and August, along with two weeks in December, we have our remote first periods. During these times, you can work remotely, whether that's from another location in the UK or even from certain locations abroad.
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What We Do
We’re proud of our people-centred culture, which, combined with our tech and data expertise, makes us one of the UK’s leading companies.
As a company our purpose is to drive change together, responsibly. We aim to improve the process of buying and selling vehicles in the UK, by continually evolving the ecosystem to provide a better experience for consumers, retailers and manufacturers alike.