Rachael Jones is the Director of Automotive Finance at Auto Trader, the UK’s largest online automotive marketplace.

She has worked in the automotive industry for 15 years in roles at Nissan GB including Product & Lifecycle Management, Retailer Sales Performance, Retail Marketing & Tactical Planning. More recently she played a pivotal role at Auto Trader in their transition to adding brand new cars to the platform. In her role as Director of Automotive Finance, she heads up strategic partnerships with Lenders and Leasing companies and is passionate about driving value for partners through data and insight, digital solutions, and enabling them to better connect with Auto Trader consumers.

Today, Auto Trader has over 40 lender integrations, and over 6,000 retailers advertising 300,000 vehicles with finance on the platform. Rachael takes a particular interest in Sustainability and is the Sponsor of the Sustainability Network within Auto Trader.

She also works closely with The Carbon Literacy Trust who offer free Carbon Literacy training to anyone in the automotive industry, with the aim to reduce individual’s Carbon Footprint.