Metcor Group
Group Fleet Manager
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Group Fleet Manager
Location: Dartford with national travel throughout the London & SE traffic area.
Contract: Permanent, full time | Reports to Group Transformation and Fleet Director
Package: Competitive salary and car allowance
The Role
Metcor Group is seeking an experienced Group Fleet Manager to lead fleet compliance, operations and continuous improvement across the group. You’ll hold named Transport Manager accountability, ensuring our fleet stays safe, compliant and efficient.
The successful candidate will lead a small national fleet team, act as the main point of escalation for fleet operational matters, and work closely with business units to improve availability, utilisation, performance and cost control.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead statutory Transport Manager duties and Operator Licence compliance across the Group.
- Own fleet compliance policies, processes, audits and regulatory communications.
- Improve fleet availability, utilisation and efficiency using data, including Samsara telematics.
- Oversee vehicle lifecycle processes, allocation, driver onboarding and operational fleet queries.
- Lead fleet transformation projects, standardisation activity, EV planning and emissions reporting.
- Manage budgets, suppliers, KPI reporting, RAIDO and insurance claim activity.
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About You
You will be a confident fleet or transport leader with strong compliance knowledge, senior stakeholder management skills and experience leading teams, projects and operational improvement in a transport environment.
Essential Experience
- Transport Manager CPC, national and/or international road haulage.
- Proven experience holding statutory Transport Manager responsibility.
- Experience managing fleet compliance, operations, administration and audit programmes.
- Experience leading a multi-disciplinary team in a transport or fleet setting.
- Strong project management and stakeholder management capability.
Desirable Experience
- Experience with multi-category fleets; tank-vehicle, transformation, CILT or telematics experience would be advantageous.
Package
- Competitive salary and car allowance
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Personal accident cover (after 1 year's service)
- Life insurance (after 1 year's service)
- Access to a virtual GP (after 1 year's service)
- Early Christmas pay — monthly pay day is the 25th; December pay usually comes a week earlier
- Employee assistance programme, including a 24-hour advice line
- Metcor Hub — benefits, savings and perks
- Company pension: Employees will be auto-enrolled into the company pension scheme after three months’ service. Contributions will be made via salary sacrifice, subject to eligibility and scheme rules.
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Pre-Employment Checks
If successful, employment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including DBS and drug testing.
Why Join Us?
This is a high-impact opportunity to shape a critical Group-wide fleet function, strengthen compliance and drive meaningful improvements in safety, performance, efficiency and sustainability.
If you are a proactive fleet leader with strong compliance credentials and the drive to deliver operational improvement, we would welcome your application.
If you have applied for this role previously, your application is already on file and does not need to be resubmitted.
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