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Team: Fleet Team

Salary banding:  £31,720 - £35,000

Experience: Expert

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: SJ Mitchell - Senior Fleet & Supply Chain Manager

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Projects, Vans, Collaboration 

Top 3 qualities for this role: Organisation, Resilience, Communication

Where you’ll work:

Depending on the needs of your business area, we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week, and to go to OVO Connection events in-person.

You’ll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices, Bristol, Glasgow, or London; unless your role requires field-based work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop, is designed to inspire people, help them connect and bring big ideas to life.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

This role in a nutshell:

You’ll be working with our multi award winning Fleet team, assisting us in reaching our 100% full electric fleet target, part of the wider Customer Fulfilment team.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Build the metrics framework including vehicle out of service time, cost, and convenience to determine the effectiveness of our fleet at scale
• Lead technology integration to digitise the entire fleet operation. Looking at how we can leverage technology to focus on efficiency, complete remedial tasks, eliminate data entry, find better ways to manage vehicle inspection reports, monitor preventative maintenance schedules, connect fuel/charge cards and consumption and improve driver safety and experience.
• Work closely with our lease providers, vehicle manufacturers, telemetry suppliers and other suppliers to secure the service we need whilst optimising costs.
• Proactively evaluate fleet performance, working closely with the Senior Fleet Manager to define success metrics and desired impact to improve performance based on deep dive analysis.
• Design and develop a scalable Fleet demand model, working closely with suppliers to improve forecast lead time and accuracy.  Work closely with our finance business partner to ensure plans meet peak demand whilst ensuring financial efficiency.
• Be the point of contact for suppliers providing information to support operations in receiving the right level of information and reporting. Work with suppliers to continuously improve the service offering.
• Responsible for developing the fleet strategy for OVO and supporting the changing vehicle needs (i.e. electric vehicles the future of charging, developing flexible rental capacity plans that can help us scale up/down as required; cost analysis on motoring offence charges etc); creating innovative variable fleet solutions that meet our business goals and objectives.  Engage with people managers and leaders, both externally and internally, to deliver a best-in-class driver experience.
• Develop a fleet roadmap and prioritise key milestones.  Communicate effectively so all stakeholders understand the direction and vision and are aligned. Proactively engage with all areas across OVO to identify interdependencies, mutually beneficial goals, and influencing leadership.
• Set up scalable and reliable ways to measure success and mechanisms to detect issues before they become risks.
• Fleet projects, ownership and stakeholder management for all new fleet initiatives.

Systems: Google Suite

You’ll be a successful Fleet Specialist here at OVO if you…

• Previous experience in a fleet administration/management role is essential
• Proven success in a customer-facing role (internal/external) with a focus on building strong cross-functional relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse data to solve complex, ambiguous business challenges. 
• Passion and knowledge for logistics and transportation
• Excellent communication skills, capable of interacting effectively with diverse groups, including suppliers, business owners and senior leadership.  
• Experience working with and influencing remote teams.
• Have a proactive approach to tasks and projects, effectively managing and completing objectives & ability to adapt to shifting priorities and challenging situations. 
• Strong operations background and understanding of vehicle operations.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £31,750 and £35,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays). For your healthWith benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and moreFor your wellbeingWith gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more For your lifestyle With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donationsFor your home  Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargersFor your commute Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..