Senior administration adjustments at Stellantis UK have led to its group managing director Maria Grazia Davino taking direct duty for the event of its retail community.

It comes lower than six months after Davino took over the lead at Stellantis UK from Paul Wilcox, was tasked with bettering group efficiency and restoring the religion of its Peugeot, Citroen, DS, Vauxhall, Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Jeep sellers as retailer morale had hit all-time low. She informed AM in December how she quickly paused plans to change to company contracts till vital points have been ironed out and each Stellantis plus its retailers can be assured of success.

Lee Titchner, who has spent seven years as community growth director, has now been appointed LCV director at Professional One, Stellantis’s umbrella organisation overseeing all its UK manufacturers’ gentle business automobile enterprise. He’ll report back to Davino.

Tony Lewis strikes from his present publish as UK LCV director to a brand new position of economic automobile enterprise growth director, accountable globally for all main key accounts for supply vans. Lewis will report back to Anne Abhoud, head of economic automobiles for Stellantis’s ‘enlarged Europe’ division.

Tom Ray, who has been with the group since 2004 in varied roles, turns into B2B operations director, reporting to Eurig Druce, VP gross sales at Stellantis UK. Ray is a former basic supervisor and regional operations director with Stellantis & You, the retail group as soon as generally known as Robins & Day, and a former head of regional operations for Peugeot.

And as AM-online just lately reported, Steve Beattie has returned to Vauxhall as its gross sales and operations director after six years at Volvo and Nio. He can even report back to Druce.

Maria Grazia Davino mentioned: “I want to welcome Lee, Steve and Tom to their new roles and want all of them each success in delivering on our Dare Ahead 2030 commitments. 

“Lee’s broad and assorted information coupled together with his sturdy relationships with the community will allow him to guide the Professional One technique at Stellantis, with our ongoing focus to maximise our market share for LCV in UK and sustaining trade management in electrical vans.”

“This strategy, with the newly-created supply van gross sales position, will strengthen our collective providing and protection, supporting our strategic goals within the LCV market. I’m delighted that one among our group will take the lead on such a strategic place and I want to thank Tony for his nice contribution to the UK group.”

“I welcome Steve again to the group. Steve’s vast expertise throughout gross sales and aftersales, integral information of the Vauxhall model and optimistic community engagement abilities will make him a beneficial asset in driving our Vauxhall gross sales outcomes forwards. Lastly, I congratulate Tom on his new position and know that his intensive gross sales and management expertise will allow him to drive ahead our plans for the fleet market.”

Davino has appointed the ICDP to average between the nationwide gross sales firm and its franchisees because it seeks to work out, collectively, the way to make direct-to-consumer new automobile gross sales work within the UK.

Within the final NFDA Vendor Angle Survey each single Stellantis franchise – Vauxhall, Citroen, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, DS, Peugeot, Jeep – was rated as poor worth and was combating one another for the underside of the rating.