Fleet Specialist, Online

Morrisons; Bradford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK supermarket is seeking a full-time Fleet Specialist to join their online team. This position will focus on managing processes for a fleet of 800 delivery vehicles, ensuring compliance, and driving cost-effective operations. The right candidate should have project management expertise and excellent communication skills. In return, you will receive a competitive benefits package including discounts, pension schemes, and opportunities for career development.

Benefits

15% store discount

Annual bonus scheme

Career progression opportunities

Market leading pension scheme

Healthcare benefits

Private healthcare

Free parking on site

Qualifications

• Understanding of store & retail operations is highly advantageous.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment.
• Clear understanding of fleet management in a retail environment or willing to learn.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and implementation of delivery processes.
• Ensure fleet is roadworthy and meets customer demand.
• Manage preventative maintenance and vehicle uptime.
• Drive down avoidable costs and manage damage budgets.

Skills

Project management skills

Analytical and problem solving ability

Great communication skills

Relationship management skills

Job description

We’re looking for someone to join the online team as an Fleet Specialist, Online in the Operations Team based in the field on a full‑time permanent basis.

This role will involve working 40 hours over 5 days a week.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the online team.

This role will lead the development and implementation of our end to end processes for over 800 online delivery vehicles. Ensure they are available and operated within safe, legal and cost effective parameters.

The individual will ensure our delivery fleet is roadworthy and ready to respond to our customer demand and financial sales plan at all times. You will work collaboratively with external service providers and stores to facilitate and manage preventative maintenance and vehicle uptime.

You will develop, implement and manage safe, legal processes and continuous improvement within our delivery fleet and manage the end to end costs for the delivery fleet within established budgets.

Hilmore House, our head office, offers convenient amenities, including a subsidised on‑site restaurant, coffee shop, convenience and sample store, a prayer room, free parking, and frequent company wide events and promotions.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Build weekly / monthly and periodic performance reporting of business area
• Successful partnering with the wider business on projects
• Support the central team in maintaining a compliant safe and legal and fleet
• Build strong relationships with teams across the business to influence our stores and field teams to provide fleet in the right place/time to serve our customers/sales plan
• Visiting stores, identifying performance gaps and creating solutions to resolve
• Be the gatekeeper for vehicle compliance with our third party providers
• Work with stores to drive down avoidable costs and support delivery of weekly damage budget
• Review safety incidents and work collaboratively with stores to close any performance gaps
• Support the Home Delivery and Click and Collect expansion plan
• Manage the accurate record keeping necessary to operate our fleet to meet safe, legal, and compliance requirements of relevant authorities

About you

We’ve built an incredibly diverse business, and we’re working hard to make sure we truly represent the communities we serve. One of the best things about working with so many different people is having the opportunity to listen, learn and connect with lots of different views, perspectives and beliefs. For this role, we’re looking for someone who has:

• Understanding of a store & retail operation, highly advantageous
• Comfortable with working in a fast‑paced environment, with lots of change
• Project management skills, coupled with great analytical and problem solving ability
• A clear understanding of fleet management in a retail environment - or willingness to develop and learn in this area, with transferable skills
• The ability to make challenging decisions to ensure consistency in stores
• The ability to support a strategy and translate this into operational business improvement plans
• Ability to create and instil structure and governance
• Great communication, networking and relationship management skills to engage stakeholders

About us

In return for all your hard work, you will receive:

• 15% discount in store from the day you join us
• Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member
• Annual bonus scheme
• Career progression and development opportunities
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Market leading pension scheme and life assurance
• Healthcare benefits including Aviva Digital GP
• ‘MyPerks’ giving you discount with over 850 retailers
• Free parking onsite
• Enhanced Family, Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Private Healthcare

Alive with activity, our modern Head Office is home to our corporate teams that make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, Morrisons Daily and a subsidised restaurant. We are within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - and we even have free parking!

At our Head Office you will expect to find supplier showcases, charity fundraising and celebrations all year round for the events that mean the most to our colleagues.

There’s more to our business as it’s fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve got lots of fresh opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you!

At Morrisons, we’re proud to be building a team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We want every colleague to feel respected, supported and able to be themselves at work. Different voices, experiences and ways of thinking help us grow and improve and that’s good for our customers too.

We’re always looking for people from all walks of life to join us and bring their talents to our team. Together, we can build a workplace where everyone has the chance to thrive, make a difference and belong.