Volkswagen Group UK

About The Role We have an exciting new opportunity to join the Škoda Direct Sales Team as an Area Fleet Manager on a full time permanent basis . This exciting role is responsible for pro-actively developing great relationships with existing and prospective customers. Reporting into the National Fleet Manager, you will be part of a team working with our corporate customers to deliver against our sales ambitions, now and in the future. You'll be accountable for maintaining strong retailer and leasing company engagement and be responsible for the delivery of annual sales and order targets through varied fleet sub channels. You'll have the confidence and presence to influence both new and existing customers in this role. It is essential you are self-motivated , have strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships quickly at all levels, across both the Volkswagen Group and our customers . This is a field based role covering Scotland, Northern Ireland & Northern England. Skills & experience you can bring to the role: Excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills and confidence to challenge ideas. Ability to develop relationships quickly are all levels. Good commercial acumen and awareness. Drive to achieve commercial targets and objectives. Experience of working in a customer focused environment and within B2B sales. What can we offer you? Along with a competitive salary, car schemes (including cars for family members), discretionary bonus, fuel card, enhanced pension contributions, private medical insurance, 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, 4 x life insurance & health & wellbeing support, we also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit you and your lifestyle. Škoda Škoda cars are driven by a particular type of person. It's nothing to do with age, income or any other social demographic, but attitude. They love driving something different because they're driven by something different. Just like us. In this role you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference to the Škoda brand and to support the business to succeed with its ambitions for the future. About Us Volkswagen Group UK We're driven by difference. With six big brands under one roof - each with its own history, designs and innovations - we've created some of the world's most iconic vehicles, from luxury sports cars to family camper vans. Here, you'll discover opportunities, explore ideas and tackle challenges that you won't find anywhere else. It takes a range of teams to make the Group successful. We all share the same aim: to deliver sustainable mobility for generations to come, while keeping the customer and their changing demands at the heart of everything we do. There's never been a more exciting time to join our industry as it undergoes the biggest transformation for over 100 years. With digitalisation, electrification and driverless mobility all coming to the market, we're actively looking for people with new skills, knowledge and outlooks. A brave new world demands brave, new, diverse people; so whatever your background, we would love to hear from you. We know that different perspectives and thought processes are vital as our industry goes through an exciting period of change. To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage the application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.