Senior Customer Vehicle Deployment Planner – Vehicle Lifecycle Projects

About the role

The Senior Customer Vehicle Deployment Planner is responsible for planning, coordinating, and optimizing the deployment and allocation of vehicles across locations, customers, or operational use cases. This position sits at the interface between product development, V&V planning, operations, service & maintenance, and commercial teams, with a strong focus on data-driven planning and operational execution.

What you'll do

• Plan and steer vehicle deployment, redeployment, and relocations across sites and customers.
• Translate demand forecasts and operational requirements into executable fleet plans.
• Allocate vehicles to meet utilization targets, capacity constraints, and customer commitments.
• Ensure the right vehicle mix per location and use case, including timing and readiness.
• Balance fleet availability with service and maintenance capacity; flag gaps and bottlenecks early.
• Coordinate vehicle movements with operations, service & maintenance, and logistics providers.
• Schedule deployments considering maintenance status, compliance, and operational readiness.
• Support launch planning for new sites, customers, and services with clear deployment scenarios.

What you'll need

• Hands-on experience in automotive launch, industrialization, or transition management, with direct involvement in moving vehicles from pre-series into steady-state operations.
• Strong understanding of pre-series vehicles and early fleet deployment activities, including service readiness, spare parts availability, and operational support requirements.
• Proven ability to capture, document, and institutionalize learnings from prototypes and early builds, translating them into scalable operational and service standards.
• Experience in defining and executing structured testing and validation approaches for operational and service processes prior to and following the start of production.
• Solid understanding of the end-to-end vehicle value chain, including the downstream impacts of engineering and launch decisions on service, uptime, and operating cost.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in environments with incomplete standards, evolving requirements, and high ambiguity, while driving clarity and alignment.
• Fluent English; German is a plus

What they offer

• Competitive salary including bonus
• Hybrid work setup with flexibility to work from home or offices
• Flexible working hours and work arrangements
• Remote work from outside Germany for up to 6 weeks per year
• 30 vacation days, sabbatical and unpaid leave option
• Learning environment with continuous learning days, trainings, coaching, and conferences