Business Manager - Fleet Services - Internal Only

About Southwark:

We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.

At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities.  Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.

The Role:

Are you ready to take on a pivotal role at Southwark Council, steering our Fleet Services to new heights? We are offering an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and visionary leader to join our team as a Fleet ServicesBusiness Manager.

Fleet Services play an essential role in ensuring that Southwark Council can effectively deliver a wide range of resident-focused services. This department is responsible for the provision and management of the Council’s commercial vehicle fleet. These includes everything from waste collection trucks to service vans used by various council departments

Strategic Leadership: Lead the Fleet Services business unit, guiding your team to deliver high-quality, sustainable, and cost-efficient commercial fleet solutions.

Innovation and Sustainability: Develop and implement a forward-thinking strategy focused on technical advancements, carbon emission reductions, and continuous improvement.

Cross-Division Collaboration: Work closely with multiple divisions and directorates to enhance service delivery through effective policy development and process improvements.

About us

The Fleet Services business unit sits within the Traded Services division. Traded Services also contains business units which deliver street lighting, pest control services, sign and steel product fabrication workshops, parks and play equipment maintenance and many more services to the internal market. All in a direct labour self-delivery model

Additional Information

We understand that Fleet may sound technically niche but if you can display a good understanding of management functions such as process development, governance, business technology, procurement and finance and you have great people skills, we will help you with the bit on wheels

About You:

Exceptional Communication Skills: The successful candidate will possess outstanding verbal and written communication abilities, essential for crafting complex reports and providing advice to the Council and all stakeholders. Your ability to clearly articulate ideas and strategies will be crucial in driving our initiatives forward.

Core Competencies: We are looking for someone with a robust foundation in key functional areas, including finance, people management, and contract management. Your knowledge in these domains will be instrumental in improving our current services.

Leadership: An excellent communicator with strong written skills, you will lead in developing and continuously improving the service by developing policies, enhancing processes and procedures, and monitoring their implementation. Your base knowledge of core functions (e.g. finance, people, contracts) will help drive improvements through development and effective collaboration across multiple divisions and directorates. 

Additional details

From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance.

You will benefit from 33 days basic annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 36 days with continuous service, a generous local government salary related pension, cycle to work and cycle loan scheme, season-ticket loan, confidential wellbeing and counselling support. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our page.

Additional details This post attracts an additional JNC financial benefits package of £2,724 per annum (pro-rata, April - March).

We will only consider applications from internal candidates, that are current employees or agency workers on an active assignment.

We encourage any internal staff to to gain agreement from their substantive line manager if considering this is as a secondment opportunity.

Benefits and more information:

In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.

Recruitment timetable

Closing date: 08/07/2024

Interview and Assessment date: W/C 22/07/2024

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

•  Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
•  Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
•  If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

SWCINT

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

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