Description
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Europe Fleet Manager
Contract: Permanent
About us
With over 200 brands sold innearly 180countries,we’rethe world’s leading premium drinks company. From global icons like Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray to Smirnoff and Don Julio, we createbrands consumerslove. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore,collaborateand innovate. Together with passionate people from all over the world,you’lltestnew ideas,learnand grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating!
About the Function
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 (breweries, distilleries, packaging and bottling sites, brand homes) totaling100msq. feet. We run an outsourced/thin client model, with Regional CRES teams that are aligned with our markets, and a Global Centre of Excellence.
CRES is the global owner of fleet strategy and is leading thestandardisationof 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,cashand colleague experience across Diageo.
About the Role
We’reexcited to behiring fora newly createdEurope Fleet Managerposition within our Corporate Real Estate Services (CRES) function.
Reporting into ourHead of Strategy & Standards, this role will play an important part in shaping andstandardisingfleet operations across the region, while helping drive a more efficient and future-focused operating model.
Managing a fleet of approximately1,700 vehicles, this is far more than a traditional operational fleet role.We’relooking for someone who enjoys driving transformation, improving ways of working, and leading change with confidence and collaboration.
This is a broad and varied role, combining strategy, operational delivery, stakeholder management, andpeopleleadership. Key areas of focus include:
1. Supporting the transition to a future fleet operating model across Europe, with potential to expand globally over time
2. Leading and supporting change initiatives, helping teams embed new ways of working successfully
3. Line managing a team of Fleet Coordinators and supporting consistent delivery across markets
4. Reviewing and improving fleet policies, processes, and operational standards across the region
5. Driving efficiencies andidentifyingopportunities tooptimiseperformance, cost, and colleague experience
6. Supporting the wider mobility strategy, including sustainability and fleetmodernisationinitiatives
7. Leading reporting and analysis around fleet performance, mileage, emissions, andoptimisationopportunities
8. Partnering closely with teams across HR, Procurement, Finance, Tax, ESG, Payroll, Risk, and Health & Safety
9. Supporting compliance, governance, and financial reporting activities across the fleet operation
About You
We’relooking for someone who is comfortable balancing operational delivery with strategic thinking - someone who enjoys building relationships, influencing stakeholders, and continuously improving processes and performance.
This role would suit someone who:
10. Has strong fleet management competence, ideally managing fleets of 800+ vehicles, including company cars, vans, pool vehicles, bespoke vehicles, and EV/BEV fleets
11. Brings strong European experience, with global exposure a bonus
12. Has proven senior-level people management and leadership experience
13. Enjoys leading change, transformation, andprogrammemanagement activity
14. Has strong supplier, commercial, and contract management experience
15. Is confident managing and influencing stakeholders across multiple functions and markets
16. Brings a proactive, self-motivated, customer-focused approach withstrong communicationskills
17. Is comfortable using data, reporting, and performance metrics to drive decisions and improvements
18. Has experience working with procurement and wider CRES-related functions
19. Has experience leading extended teams and/or third-party suppliers
20. Understands governance, compliance, operational risk, and fleet performance management
21. Can confidently communicate with and challenge senior stakeholders when needed
22. Is passionate about continuous improvement, efficiency, and colleague experience
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so thatyou’resupported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
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 thatyou’llbe welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you.You’llbe part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of differentgender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may betheopportunity for you!
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Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Budapest
Additional Locations :
1HQ, Amsterdam, Edinburgh Park, St James Gate
Job Posting Start Date :
2026-05-28