Area Sales Manager

We’re excited to offer a fantastic opportunity to become part of the iconic Volkswagen Passenger Cars Network Sales Team as an Area Sales Manager. This is a full time 12 month Fixed Term contract for 12 months. It is a field-based role covering the South Coast and West London area.

Reporting directly to the National Sales Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving performance, ensuring strategic alignment, and strengthening relationships with our Volkswagen Network Partners. You'll work closely with leadership teams across your Network Partners to support and shape their short, medium, and long-term plans, ensuring they are fully aligned and integrated with the Volkswagen brand strategy.

Now is a truly exceptional time to join the Volkswagen brand. As we prepare to launch the next generation T-Roc in early 2026. We are also on the cusp of a major product revolution, with an exciting wave of electric vehicles set to dramatically enhance the accessibility of EV ownership and bring electric mobility to the mainstream.

In this role, you will be instrumental in helping our partners:

• Maximise performance and profitability
• Optimise the customer experience
• Adapt and thrive in a dynamic, fast-evolving automotive landscape

This is a great opportunity to join the brand that’s shaping the future of mobility.

Skills & experience you can bring to the role:

• Ability to effectively engage and communicate with a diverse range of stakeholders within the retailer businesses and brand, in a variety of business settings.
• A thorough understanding of the core processes necessary to deliver retailer excellence in your specified area.
• A practical level of business financial Internal awareness.
• Ability to provide valued input and insight at a retailer operational level whilst at the same time recognising areas of risk and opportunity for the retailer or brand.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate to all stakeholders.
• Excellent influencing skills.
• Previous proven sales experience.

What can we offer you?

Along with a competitive salary, car schemes (including cars for family members), discretionary bonus, fuel card, enhanced pension contributions, private healthcare, 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, 4 x life assurance & health & wellbeing support, we also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit you and your lifestyle.

Volkswagen Group

We’re driven by difference. With six big brands under one roof – each with its own history, designs and innovations – we’ve created some of the world’s most iconic vehicles, from luxury sports cars to family camper vans. Here, you’ll discover opportunities, explore ideas and tackle challenges that you won’t find anywhere else.

It takes a range of teams to make the Group successful. We all share the same aim: to deliver sustainable mobility for generations to come, while keeping the customer and their changing demands at the heart of everything we do.

There’s never been a more exciting time to join our industry as it undergoes the biggest transformation for over 100 years. With digitalisation, electrification and driverless mobility all coming to the market, we’re actively looking for people with new skills, knowledge, and outlooks. A brave new world demands brave, new, diverse people; so whatever your background, we would love to hear from you.  We know that different perspectives and thought processes are vital as our industry goes through an exciting period of change.

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage the application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.