Trading Manager

About Carwow

We’re Carwow. The car-changing experts for life-changing moments. Whether buying, selling, or (car) window shopping, we aim to give people total confidence in their choice.

We kicked off our journey as the ultimate matchmaker for car reviews, helping everyone pick their perfect ride. But we soon realised this wasn’t the destination – it was just the first leg. Why stop there when we could also help them get a great price?

So we decided we wanted to revolutionise selling cars, just like we did with buying them. That’s when we introduced our game-changing ‘sell my car’ product.

Today, our dedicated team of over 500 experts across the UK, Germany, Spain and Portugal look after over 12 million active users (and an ‘excellent’ Trustpilot rating).

And we’ve got plenty left in the tank.

Working here

So, what does Carwow look like under the hood?

We’re always driving forward, and our people love what they do and love working together. Our goal is to empower our employees to discover their passions, create common ground, and take control of their careers with confidence.

We regularly fine-tune our hiring process to ensure fairness and all Carwowers receive comprehensive DE&I training. Our Diversity Committees, led by our fantastic employees, fuel internal education, help out our local communities, and champion initiatives for our customers.

We’re also Flexa100 nominated and aim to be the go-to place for changing cars. We’re proud to say we’ve got an impressive employee average engagement score of 8.5/10!

Bonding as a team is important to us – whether we’re rocking the Carwow Olympics worldwide, playing drag bingo for Pride Month, taking part in beach clean-ups or rallying on the Padel court, there’s always something to bring us together.

Fancy a life-changing career from the car-changing pros? We’d love you to join us on our journey.

About the role

The Sell My Car (SMC) Trading Manager will work with senior leaders, collaborating across functions, rapidly diagnosing and spotting trends, growth opportunities, quickly solving problems, and bringing new valuable insight to help the SMC leadership team to make the right decisions. You will liaise and align with your international counterparts to learn quicker and share best practice across our markets, driving the commercial success of the business. 

What you’ll be doing

You will execute a wide range of analytical, operational & strategic actions, initiatives and projects critical to carwow’s growth and business success, working closely with all teams within the business (Commercial, Product, Marketing and Data) to maximise short to mid-term value.

• Marketplace Health: Work with all the Sell My Car teams to identify areas for continued efficiency, being ruthlessly focused on flagging underperforming areas and holding teams to account. Lead the development of the operational capability to manage key tactical levers, and initiating projects to improve marketplace health at a broad scale.
• Performance Monitoring: Becoming the internal expert on SMC with accountability for monitoring and reporting on day to day trading, working cross-functionally to identify metrics that are off track, diagnosing the issues, and surfacing these to drive actions that get performance back on track
• Performance Reporting: Prepare and lead weekly trading meetings, distilling complex information into clear, prioritised actions, following up on impact of actions and creating a framework that allows us to pull the right levers based on the insights we have available

What you’ll need

Please note: We know that no candidate will be the perfect match for all we’ve listed in this posting, so we’d encourage you to apply if you feel you’re close to the brief but not an exact match.

• Proactivity and curiosity, along with a drive to succeed, learn and develop
• Very strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional, strategic actions, initiatives and projects
• Strong bias for action and experience solving complex, unstructured problems
• Passion for data analysis and natural aptitude for problem-solving, with the ability to mould this output into a clear storyline
• Willingness to quickly learn, adapt and apply new skills
• A creative, entrepreneurial mentality that enjoys experimentation and is willing to take risks
• Experience working in a Marketplace business model and overall interest in the automotive industry
• Basic SQL skills

What the interview process looks like

• Step 1: Video call with a member of our Talent Team to find out more about your experience and why you want to work at Carwow
• Step 2: Video-call with the Hiring Manager
• Step 3: In-office task-presentation with the Hiring Manager & 2 Stakeholders
• Step 4: Video-call with Sell-My-Car Senior Leadership

What’s in it for you 

• Hybrid working that works around you
• Competitive salary to fund that dream holiday to Bali
• Matched pension contributions for a peaceful retirement
• Share options – when we thrive, so do you!
• Vitality Private Healthcare, for peace of mind, plus eyecare vouchers
• Life Assurance for (even more) peace of mind
• Monthly coaching sessions with Spill – our mental wellbeing partner
• Enhanced holiday package, plus bank holidays
• 28 days annual leave
• 1 day for your wedding
• 1 day off when you move house – because moving’s hard enough without work!
• On your third year anniversary, you get 30 days of annual leave per year
• On your tenth year anniversary, you get 35 days of annual leave per year
• Option to buy 3 extra days of holiday per year
• Work from abroad for a month (due to popular demand, this offer excludes the moon).
• Inclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave, fertility treatment and pregnancy loss policies
• Bubble childcare support and discounted nanny fees for the little ones
• The latest tech (Macbook or Surface) to power your gif-sending talents
• Up to £500/€550 home office allowance for that massage chair you’ve been talking about
• A generous learning and development budget to help you master your craft
• Regular social events:, tech lunches, coffee with the exec sessions, book clubs, social events/anything else you pester us for
• Refer a friend, get paid. Repeat for infinite money
• Lunch & learns and Carwow Classrooms with expert speakers who are here for a free lunch

Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, so we welcome those with alternative identities, backgrounds, and experiences to apply for this position. We make recruiting decisions based on experience, skills and potential, so all our applicants are treated fairly and equally. 

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