Vehicle Readiness Manager - Vehicle Planning & Deployment

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. The role ensures that the right vehicles are in the right place at the right time, supporting high utilization, availability, and cost efficiency.

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.
• 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.
• Solid understanding of the end-to-end vehicle value chain, including downstream impacts of engineering and launch decisions on service, uptime, and operating cost.
• Fluent English; German is a plus.

What they offer

• Competitive salary (including bonus)
• Hybrid work setup with flexibility to work from home or offices
• 30 vacation days, sabbatical and unpaid leave option
• Learning environment with continuous learning days, trainings, workshops, and language classes
• Mental health support and wellness benefits
• Relocation support and subsidized public transport