Fleet Business Partner

Royal Mail is something special, a well-loved brand people can rightly be proud of.

We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don't, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year.

Our people are at the heart of our business and are integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations.

Job reference 334645
Fleet Business Partner
From £54,088, 10% annual bonus potential, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates.
Permanent, Full time.
Role will require regular travel around BB, CA, FY, LA, PR, M, SK, OL, BL, WN, CW, L and WA postcode areas.

Key Responsibilities (What You'll Do)

• Deploy strategies to ensure the red fleet is correctly sized and aligned to operational needs, managing fleet demand, supply, and cost.
• Support improvements in driver behaviour and safety through coaching, field visits, and operational engagement.
• Use telemetry and management information to help improve fleet utilisation, compliance, emissions, and cost efficiency.
• Lead and support environmental compliance initiatives (e.g., ULEZ, CAZ, DVS) to reduce risk and cost.
• Identify and highlight poor and outstanding vehicle standards, supporting local teams with improvement plans.
• Build strong relationships with senior operational stakeholders and provide insight to improve fleet performance and driver behaviour measures.
• Promote and embed the fleet customer relationship model and communication strategy.
• Coach stakeholders on using fleet systems, self service tools, and management information to support better decision making.

About You

You are an excellent communicator who can build trust, influence stakeholders, and simplify complex information.

You enjoy working collaboratively and can coach others to improve performance.

You're adaptable, open to change, and confident using data to drive action.

What You'll Bring

• Experience in fleet operations or a related industry.
• Strong coaching, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to analyse data and translate insights into clear actions.
• Understanding of fleet compliance, vehicle standards, and road transport legislation.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and support behaviour change.
• Membership of a relevant professional body (desirable).
• Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) holder (desirable).

Extra Benefits

• Family friendly support: enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave.
• Discounts and offers: more than 800 offers to help you save on groceries, days out, holidays and household bills.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay.
• 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life - from your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice.

Because this role requires you to travel, Royal Mail will make a monthly £375 contribution to the rental payments for your chosen car.

Next Steps: The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face/virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions. Interviews are planned for the week commencing 23rd March.

We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and