MEET ANDRIA ALLEN Controller, Allen Hyundai
Andria is a Gulfport native that has rediscovered her home and passion here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast while working alongside her husband, Scott Allen, after chasing her dreams of big city life for 10 years. Today, Andria shares an office with her husband, owner of Allen Hyundai, and together they handle all day-to-day decisions of the Gulfport based car dealership. After graduating with her Bachelor’s in Finance from USM she moved to Atlanta where she worked for American General Finance a division of AIG before taking a position as the Assistant Vice President at a large commercial janitorial business in D.C. After living the rat race of city life for nearly a decade as one of the youngest female executives in the business, Andria made the decision to be closer to her nieces and moved home to Gulfport. She met Scott shortly after moving home and the couple were married in 2014. In 2015, Andria was accepted into Tulane’s Executive MBA program and just a month after being accepted into the program she found out she was pregnant with their first child. She managed to graduate from Tulane’s eMBA program as the only woman to have ever had a baby while in the program and still finish on time. She came to work with Scott after graduating as he finished the process of purchasing Allen Hyundai last year. She passionately pushes for more women in the automotive industry. At Allen Hyundai, she mentors women to become leaders in a historically male dominated field. The National Automobile Dealers Association recently reported that women make up 19% of dealership employees and at Allen Hyundai women represent 28%. “We don’t typically see female applicants looking for a sales position, but we want women to know that it can be quite rewarding to help someone find a car that fits their needs in an industry that has had a notorious reputation” says Andria. “I think women have a misconception out there that you have to be a car enthusiast to do the job and really it’s like any other sales job, you just have to help someone find a solution to their problem and we have a car lot full of solutions.” At Allen Hyundai, they focus on a culture that encourages women to join a new era in Automotive Sales.
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