Senior Fleet Mobility Specialist

Are you an experienced Assistant Fleet Manager or Senior Fleet Coordinator looking for your next challenge? At GB Railfreight we are looking for a highly skilled logistics expert to support our continued growth and to help capitlise on the recent success of this newly created team. You will need to be an Automotive industry subject matter expert who is passionate about creating and evolving processes, to help drive the efficiency of mobility services within the business and look for ways to improve in the way we operate.
 
The role involves responsibility for the movement of our people using varied types of transport and overcoming challenges to that function using existing processes and creating new solutions. It's basically ensuring that train crew and other key team members are in the right place at the right time and in the most cost effective and efficient way!
 
The role will involve the coordination of suppliers of vehicles leased, owned, and rented along with managing the providers of other services used in our overall mobility solution. Excellent relationship building skills are essential to ensure that we optimise the quality of service provided by our suppliers. Being an area of focus that is constantly changing, project creation and management will fall into this remit requiring an ability to engage and work closely with other teams. This position is evolving and will incorporate future involvement in cradle to grave management of our owned or leased fleet and further development of current telematic provisions in our vehicles.

The role will be based in either our Peterborough or Doncaster office and you will be expected to travel between our offices as and when required. The salary is up to £50,000.

Closing date: 14th July

• Continually improve delivery of Road Fleet objectives and GBRf policy giving value to stakeholders and a positive user experience.
• Interface with hire car, taxi and other mobility solution suppliers ensuring delivery of an efficient and timely service to our traincrew and other internal users.
• Engage with Planning, Control and Operational teams, provide direction and support to their functions to ensure the most efficient mobility solutions are chosen for their purposes.
• Adhere to agreed budgetary limits and looking for cost efficiencies to outperform target.
• Maintaining detailed records of all mobility solutions, ensuring that all provision is managed effectively to minimise downtime and impact on our internal customers.
• Develop and implement data analysis, leveraging collection systems and other strategies that optimise statistical efficiency and quality.
• Sourcing vehicles in accordance with the company’s operating procedures and policy.
• Develop smarter reporting methods with new business technology that helps enhance the department and wider business.
• Researching options and carrying out comparisons to source suppliers of best value vehicles, mobility provision and associated services.
• Coordinate Leasing companies and other suppliers to ensure timely maintenance and repair to owned/leased vehicles.
• Ability to drive change and behaviours both within the team and across the wider business.
• Ensuring the fleet is operated in accordance with legislation, managing fines, penalties and any damage.

Skills and Experience

• Highly resilient with proven organisational skills to cope with a fast-changing environment and multiple concurrent tasks.
• Strong ability, knowledge of and experience in Microsoft Office products.
• Experience and understanding of automotive telematic systems
• Capable of working in partnership with others, able to successfully motivate, engage, and drive change initiatives to maximise efficiency and effectiveness.
• Understanding of fleet management lifecycle including dealing with fines, DVLA, insurance, fleet Providers, and garage services.
• Great numerical and analytical skills, with experience of collecting, organising and sharing information accurately
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to manage, influence, leverage persuasion, and negotiation to build effective relationships.
• Project management experience or managing end to end process reviews
• Experienced fleet operator, managing owned, leased, and rented fleet across multiple sites

Our Values

Professionalism – Safety and security is paramount in our business, and we feel that this embodies the foundation of a high achieving safety culture

Support – We look after our people and they in turn are encouraged to look after each other

Communication – The transparency of our is business is valued by our colleagues and customers

Trust and Empowerment – We believe that openness and honesty make for the best relationship because it leads to trust and confidence

Enjoyment – Taking pleasure in coming to work at GBRf is actively encouraged right from the top

At GB Railfreight we recognise that having a more diverse range of people leads to greater innovation. We want to create a diverse workforce and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds with the aim to have a workforce representative of wider society. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace in line with our values.