Fleet Category Buyer - Americas

ITG Brands; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 78,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid workplace

Summer hours

Casual dress policy

Employer 401k match

Job summary

ITG Brands, a leading tobacco company in the USA, is seeking a Fleet Category Manager to implement the fleet strategy across the Americas and act as the regional SME for fleet and mobility. You will own the regional category plan, build strong internal and external relationships, and drive cost savings through strategic sourcing.

Hybrid role with competitive benefits; annual base salary ranges from $78,459 to $104,611, with potential bonus. Applicants contact [e-mail].

Responsibilities

• 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.

Job description

Who We Are

ITG Brands is the third-largest tobacco company in the USA with offerings of some of the most well-known cigarette, cigar, and e-vapor brands. As a member of the globally recognized Imperial Brands PLC family, we are a forward-thinking partner with operational integrity.

ITG Brands is committed to putting consumers at the center of what we do, while creating an innovative workplace where inclusion, creativity, and bold thinking drive progress. This empowers us to bring our true selves to work, to collaborate more effectively through showing our passion and being confident to bring new ideas to the table.

We are not afraid to seize opportunities and make things happen – both individually and collaboratively. We strive to exceed expectations by seeing things differently and doing things differently. This truly is a place where we all share a challenger mindset which drives our success.

What You Will Do

• JOB SUMMARY
• 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:

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.

Everyone Belongs

ITG Brands and ITG Cigars provides equal employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. If you have a concern about discrimination in the application or hiring process or you need an accommodation based on religion, disability or pregnancy in the application or hiring process, please contact us at [e-mail] .