Fleet Director

Let’s grow together!

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experience Fleet Director looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!

We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

You will oversee all operational activities of the business, ensuring vehicles are managed and maintained aligned to contractual and regulatory requirements. You will support customer delivery via implementing strategies to optimise fleet performance, whilst working to minimise the environmental impacts. As Fleet Director you will sponsor a health and safety culture, ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory requirements.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES / ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• As part of the senior leadership team work to develop and initiate strategic plans for the business. Developing and implement fleet management strategies and policies to ensure the smooth operation of the company's fleet department.
• Oversee and coordinate the maintenance and repair of vehicles, equipment and machinery to ensure minimise customer downtime. Ensuring all vehicles are maintained to the highest standards.
• Manage and monitor maintenance costs, evaluation versus vehicle budgets, and identify areas of improvement and implement cost saving measures.
• Provide management and guidance to the technical maintenance manager to ensure the Fleet Desk operates professional and pro-actively to support customers whilst properly interrogating maintenance to ensure the business is only authorising work it is responsible for and that all manufacturer warranties and relationships are maximised.
• Manage the operational contract managers in ensuring customer contractual requirements are delivered, thus ensuring that all workshops, workshop employees and mobile engineers operate professionally, to the highest health and safety standards and that all maintenance and repairs are completed to the highest standard.
• To ensure that all third-party maintenance providers are properly approved and monitored to ensure that all repairs completed on company/customer vehicles are to the highest standard and that the actions of third parties used do not adversely impact on the contracts, reputation and integrity of SFS.
• Develop and maintain relationships with external stakeholders such as suppliers, vendors and regulatory authorities, to resolve disputes, or challenges and to ensure compliance with industry regulations and standards.
• To work with the senior management team on new business opportunities including checking the specification of vehicles quoted to ensure compliance, identifying robust maintenance solutions for each opportunity and calculating the whole life maintenance budget to be incorporated into the final quotation.
• To be responsible for the implementation of all operational aspects of new contracts.
• Stay updated with industry advancements, technological developments and regulatory changes related to the fleet manage. Briefing leadership team and operational managers along with recommending and implementing best practices and innovations.

Essential Skills                                                                             

• Extensive knowledge of heavy commercial vehicles including the full range of municipal vehicles, for maintenance practices and regulatory requirements.
• Proven experience in fleet management, with at least 5 years in leadership or a managerial position.
• In depth experience of all aspects of workshop operation.
• High level of understanding in health and safety legislation and its application in a workshop environment.
• Knowledge of budgeting, financial analysis and contract negotiation skills.
• Ability to accurately price future maintenance budgets for specialist vehicles over periods of up to 10 years.
• Ability to identify solutions to complex customer operational requirements.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to interact with internal and external stakeholders effectively.
• Proven experience of managing teams of people, with strong leadership skills with the ability to effectively manager and motivate a diverse team of fleet professionals.
• Ability to work under pressure, prioritise both for oneself and as a team manager.
• Excellent computer skills, including proficiency in MS Office Suite and fleet management software.
• Strong understanding of environmental sustainability practices in fleet management.

Desirable Skills

• HGV Licence
• CPC Holder
• Previous O Licence holder
• IOSH managing safely qualification or equivalent

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply. 

Inclusion
As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone.  If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

What can we offer you?

Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave

• Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate
• Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees
• Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension
• Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment
• Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more
• Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year
• Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover

Be flexible

We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.

Be yourself

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.