Car Buyer

About Carla
We believe that more people should be able to drive electric. Therefore, we have set out to build the safest, most convenient way method of selling, buying, or leasing an electric car. Carla was founded in 2020, with strong VC backing. We are now in an exciting growth phase and looking for an experienced Car buyer to join our hardworking Purchasing team

About the role

Our goal is to redefine what it means to own an EV/HEV by offering an impressive and attractive car inventory and providing excellent service to our customers and partners. Carla is looking for a candidate who can decide when to buy a car while considering Carla’s costs, margins, and expected market prices.

Key Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

- Buying the best quality and volume of EV and PHEV (Chargeable) cars
- Communicate with all stakeholders on new, future purchases
- Make cold calls
- Tracking the information and valuation of leads
- Evaluating purchase offers of cars from consumers, partners, and companies
- Supporting the development of the inventory management processes
- Using programs/sites to track car information like, Hubspot CRM system, our own back office, and Blocket.se


Your profile

We are looking for a hands-on doer, who is not afraid of taking action backed by facts, numbers, and experience. You’ll join a team with skilled and experienced colleagues in consumer technology, analytics, and consumer/retail selling. We hope you complement us with deep knowledge about purchasing cars - mixing data with experience. You have strong references, and a track record of both facing and managing challenges without giving up. Since our focus is exclusively on electrified vehicles, we hope that you’re fluent in everything from Tesla key knobs, Zoe battery sizes, and ranges on T8s.


We believe that the ideal candidate has:

- 2-5 years of relevant work experience from buying cars/sales
- Demonstrated understanding of the pricing dynamics in the automotive (preferably EV) industry
- Experience from C2B, D2C, and B2B propositions and leading in retail pricing, direct revenue, and contribution margins
- Strong teamwork
- A pure closer with deals. Ability to adapt closing strategy for any situation
- Experience with doing cold calls for purchasing or sales. Has the ability to adapt to different situations to produce the best closing strategy.
- High communication skills
- Fluent in both English and Swedish





Personal traits:
For an optimal role fit, we believe that an ideal candidate had the following personality:



- Persuasive and decisive in sales
- Goal oriented and competitive
- Flexibility to learning
- Vivid car enthusiast
- Excited to interact with customers
- Proactive do:er
- Energetic extrovert
- Hunger for staying up to date with the latest industry price trends, technology, and news

What we offer:

We offer a unique opportunity to join a very ambitious and fast-moving company in car sales. Our goal is to over deliver on every single expectation a consumer might have - we all want to be incredibly proud of the consumer experience we offer. Most of the colleagues we have from the automotive industry understand the high appreciation mentality. Apart from this, you can expect:

- A market competitive salary
- Stock option programs
- Benefit package
- A career defining role at a growing scale-up and an opportunity to grow and learn from knowledgeable co-workers.

Application may be submitted in Swedish or English.