About the Role
This role will play an important part in shaping and standardizing fleet operations across Europe, driving a more efficient and future-focused operating model. It combines strategy, operational delivery, stakeholder management, and people leadership, supporting the transition to a future fleet operating model and leading change initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Supporting the transition to a future fleet operating model across Europe
- Leading and supporting change initiatives
- Line managing a team of Fleet Coordinators
- Reviewing and improving fleet policies, processes, and operational standards
- Driving efficiencies and identifying opportunities to optimize performance, cost, and colleague experience
- Supporting the wider mobility strategy, including sustainability and fleet modernization initiatives
- Leading reporting and analysis around fleet performance, mileage, emissions, and optimization opportunities
- Partnering closely with teams across HR, Procurement, Finance, Tax, ESG, Payroll, Risk, and Health & Safety
- Supporting compliance, governance, and financial reporting activities
Requirements
- Comfortable balancing operational delivery with strategic thinking
- Enjoys building relationships, influencing stakeholders, and continuously improving processes and performance
- Strong fleet management competence, ideally managing fleets of 800+ vehicles
- Proven senior-level people management and leadership experience
- Enjoys leading change, transformation, and programme management activity
- Strong supplier, commercial, and contract management experience
- Confident managing and influencing stakeholders across multiple functions and markets
- Proactive, self-motivated, customer-focused approach with strong communication skills
- Comfortable using data, reporting, and performance metrics to drive decisions and improvements
- Experience working with procurement and wider CRES-related functions
- Experience leading extended teams and/or third-party suppliers
- Understands governance, compliance, operational risk, and fleet performance management
- Can confidently communicate with and challenge senior stakeholders when needed
- Passionate about continuous improvement, efficiency, and colleague experience
Skills
- Fleet management
- Change management
- Program management
- Supplier management
- Commercial management
- Contract management
- Stakeholder management
- Data analysis
- Reporting
- Performance metrics
- Governance
- Compliance
- Operational risk management
- Communication skills
Location
- Budapest
- 1HQ
- Amsterdam
- Edinburgh Park
- St James Gate
Work Type
- Permanent
- Regular
Experience Level
- Senior-level
Benefits
- Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
About the Company
- With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company.
- We create brands consumers love.
- Join us to create a career worth celebrating!
- The Global Corporate Real Estate portfolio consists of a mixture of office locations, supply and manufacturing sites, and land - 123 offices and 130+ supply sites totaling 100m sq. feet.
- CRES is the global owner of fleet strategy and is leading the standardization of the fleet operating model globally.
- With a global fleet of over 3,000+ Vehicles and 1,600+ of these across Europe the impact of CRES is critical to carbon, cash and colleague experience across Diageo.
- Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere.
- Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world.
- With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills.
- In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you.
Equal Opportunity
- Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And crafting an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences and more.
- If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you collect this information when you submit your application.
- Protecting candidates is very important to us. All communications regarding your application will come from an email address ending in @diageo.com. In our recruitment process, we'll never ask for money.
