Background:
Volkswagen Financial Services Ireland (VWFSI) has been providing innovative and market leading car finance solutions to people all over Ireland since 2008. With a wide variety of finance, leasing and servicing options, our aim is to support the sales of our Volkswagen Group Brand Partners. With over 120 dealers and over 70,000 customers, Volkswagen Financial Services Ireland has quickly become the largest car finance provider in Ireland.
Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic commercial team responsible for the management and development of the commercial relationship between VWFSI and its 6 Brand partners in Ireland (Volkswagen Passenger Car, Audi, Skoda, SEAT, CUPRA and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles).
We are seeking a motivated and innovative Campaign Specialist to join our dynamic team. This role reporting to the Brand & Planning Manager, provides an opportunity to contribute to the commercial success of the business through day-to-day operational interactions with its Brand partners, and involvement in the development of longer term strategic programmes. The role requires engaging with numerous internal and external stakeholders across multiple departments within VWFSI, VGI and external vendors.
The Campaign Specialist will drive key day to day campaign management activities while also being a subject matter expert in our future state systems and processes in relation to our products and campaign activations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the set-up, execution, monitoring, and analysis of Brand campaigns across all sales channels including Retail, Fleet, Digital, and Aftersales, while collaborating with internal stakeholders across Brand Management, Sales, Controlling, and Operations.
- Manage campaign compliance in delivery to market, ensuring adherence to regulations and internal guidelines, to deliver Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) compliant, customer-centric campaigns.
- Responsible for provision of campaign costs to brand partners, as well as pricing examples for budgeting and advertising purposes.
- Key contact for the triage of campaign issues between internal stakeholders (e.g., Digital, Data, Operations, Controlling, Compliance, and Sales teams).
- Key contributor to the implementation of a new campaign management system into VWFS, including onboarding and optimisation of the system to meet business requirements.
- Responsible for ensuring the system has required functionality, process efficiencies, and process controls, including focus on ongoing system development for changing business needs.
- Close collaboration with the Digital team to align on end-to-end business requirements from vehicle configuration and selection, finance calculation, and campaign offer.
Key Role Requirements
- Degree in Business/Marketing/Economics/Finance (or related discipline) required
- 3+ years’ experience in Financial Services or commercial industry preferable
- Prior experience with Salesforce is highly preferred
- Exceptional Excel skills required and strong proficiency with Word & PowerPoint
- Excellent communication skills, resulting in strong and positive outcomes
- Strong analytical and numeric ability – production, analysis and representation of data in a clear manner to facilitate commercial decision making
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment while still retaining an excellent level of quality and attention to detail
- Motivated self-starter with the ability to work on own initiative, as part of a high performing team
- Proven ability to focus on continuous improvement and process efficiency
- A strong customer & commercial focus
- Fluent written and spoken English
Terms & Conditions:
This is a permanent full-time position. The successful candidate will be expected to work a minimum of 2 days a week on site at the Liffey Valley Office. Compliance with all relevant internal policies and procedures and adherence to the Volkswagen Financial Services Code of Conduct is mandatory.
A competitive remuneration package commensurate with experience and qualification level will be offered to the successful candidate.
How to Apply:
Please apply by emailing a CV and a short cover letter to careersdublin@vwfs.com.
