Logistics Controlling Team Lead (m/f/x)

Your new Role

• Manage and optimize the logistics budget, ensuring cost control and operational efficiency across all logistics activities.
• Lead, coach, and manage a multinational team of around 10 people, driving their performance and development.
• Establish KPIs to monitor business health, creating processes to track and improve performance continuously.
• Oversee the performance of cost-controlling processes, identifying and executing opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate closely with senior stakeholders, ensuring clear, high-level communication while also supporting your team to drive results.
• Work with Business Analysis, Business Engineering, Product, and Tech teams to implement automation tools, reducing manual processes and improving team efficiency.
• Manage cross-functional projects aimed at improving the controlling function, ensuring alignment with broader business goals.
• Ensure adherence to project timelines, budget controls, and risk management within global initiatives.

Your Skills

• At least 6+ years of relevant work experience
• B.Sc./M.Sc. in Logistics, Supply Chain, Business, Economics, Finance, or a related field.
• Experience in accounting, cost control, automotive logistics, or transportation is a plus but not mandatory.
• Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and guide a team toward shared goals.
• Proven ability to take ownership of tasks, learn quickly, and continuously drive improvements.
• Excellent communication skills, with an emphasis on proactive, transparent communication both upward to senior stakeholders and downward to the team.
• Attention to detail, with a willingness to learn Auto1’s internal processes and tools and become a subject matter expert.
• Experience managing multiple priorities simultaneously, meeting time-sensitive deadlines, and maintaining budget discipline.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to distill complex quantitative concepts into understandable insights.
• Fluency in English is essential. Proficiency in additional European languages is a plus.

Our Offer

• Once a unicorn, now a listed public company, be part of our success story!
• An international working environment with exciting national and international projects
• Remote work can be considered
• Our dynamic startup environment constantly offers new challenges for personal growth. Everything you do has a direct business impact
• Open communication and delivering results are more important to us than a dress code — wear whatever you want
• Your future is important to us, which is why we have an above-average corporate pension plan to top it off
• We offer discounts on well-known brands such as Flaconi, Bosch, Apple and Sky as well as discounts on vehicles for you, your family and your friends

Apply by uploading your CV with a note of your salary expectations.

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AUTO1 Group is Europe's leading digital automotive platform. As a dynamic tech company, we are revolutionizing the automotive industry with our brands wirkaufendeinauto.de, AUTO1.com and Autohero. Our strong team of 6.000 people is dedicated to making Europe-wide car trading and transport as fast and stress-free as possible for our customers. Grow personally and shape the future of car trading with us.

At AUTO1 Group we live an open culture, believe in direct communication, and value diversity. We welcome every applicant; regardless of gender, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual identity, disability, or any other non-merit factor.