What You Will Do

- JOB SUMMARY

The Fleet Category Buyer supports the development and execution of the fleet category strategy, delivering commercial value, operational performance, and compliant fleet solutions across assigned region.

- WHAT YOU WILL DO
• Implement the fleet category strategy across Americas. Ensuring that the strategy aligns with
local policies and regional regulations.
• Act as the category subject-matter expert for fleet and mobility in region
• Accountability and ownership for regional category plan
• Build and maintain strong working relationships internally with business stakeholders and
externally with key service providers to influence at a strategic level
• Provide insights and recommendations to support continuous improvement of the category.
• Lead or support tendering and sourcing initiatives, e.g. vehicle supply, leasing and
maintenance.
• Deliver cost savings and value creation through negotiation and fleet specification
optimisation.
• Manage pricing mechanisms, benchmarking, and contract compliance.
• Analyse total cost of ownership and identify improvement opportunities.
• Manage day-to-day relationships with fleet management company / suppliers and service providers.
• Track and manage supplier performance against SLAs, KPIs, and contract obligations.
• Ensure method alignment with other regional fleet category managers
• Own operational fleet management delivery through managing outsourced supplier delivery
• Ensure robust governance and risk management, and fleet standards and specifications globally,
balancing cost, operational needs, safety, sustainability brand requirements.
Critical Decisions
• Supplier Selection
• Run tenders and contract renewals
• Execute Fleet category strategy
• Manage Supplier performance, SLAs and KPIs
• Decide how to optimise TCO
• Decide on vehicle safety standards and specifications.
• Decide which fleet management systems and data tools to use in regional and implementation approach / delivery
• Identify cost-reduction or value-add initiatives
• Apply fleet strategy to Americas.

Key Capabilities
• Fleet and mobility procurement capability within a regional environment (Americas).
• Fleet category execution and regional category planning capability.
• Sourcing, tendering and contract renewal support capability across vehicle supply, leasing and
maintenance.
• Commercial awareness across cost savings, value creation, pricing mechanisms, benchmarking and
total cost of ownership.
• Supplier relationship and supplier performance management capability across fleet management
companies, suppliers and service providers.
• SLA, KPI and contract compliance monitoring capability.
• Fleet standards, specifications, safety and sustainability awareness.
• Operational fleet delivery capability through outsourced supplier management.
• Risk, governance, compliance and regional regulation awareness.
• Stakeholder management across Finance, Legal, P&C, market / cluster stakeholders and end-users.
• Data and insight capability to support continuous improvement and category decision-making.

Qualifications

- REQUIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

- PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Work Environment and Physical Demand

What We Offer
• Competitive benefits package that includes medical/dental/vision/life insurance/disability plans
• Dollar for dollar 401k match up to 6% and 5% annual company contribution
• 15 Company-paid holidays
• Generous paid time off
• Employee recognition and discount programs
• Education assistance
• Employee referral bonus program
• Hybrid workplace - remote / in office
• Summer hours
• Casual dress policy Monday through Friday

Annual Base Salary Range: $78459.00 - $104611.00

Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and internal equity. This role may also be eligible for annual bonus or incentive compensation.

Applicant Information

This job description describes the essential functions of the job at the time the job description was created, but it is not an exhaustive list of tasks, duties and responsibilities. In addition, the position may evolve or change over time and such changes may not be reflected in the job description until it is next updated.