Fleet Operations Leader, Autonomous Vehicles

Fleet Operations Leader, Autonomous Vehicles

Here at Avis Budget Group, you'll be joining a team of 25,000 driven people performing with purpose. Together, we're moving the future of transportation forward through innovative, customer-focused solutions.

Our culture is performance-driven we encourage and support each other to be at our best through leadership, training, tools, and rewards.

We're proud to make a positive difference in the lives of our colleagues, customers, and the communities where we operate.

Leveraging its core strengths in large scale fleet management, Avis Budget Group has entered into a strategic partnership with the leader in self-driving technology, to launch and scale a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Dallas. This new strategic partnership reflects the Company's ambition to grow beyond travel and actively shape the future of mobility. Sound your speed? Come join our family.

As the Fleet Operations Leader, Autonomous Vehicles, you will lead a team of people and be responsible for the performance of the servicing, cleaning, charging, and calibration functions for autonomous ride-hail vehicles. Your work will focus on maximizing fleet utilization (uptime) and profitability while ensuring customers in the Dallas market have access to clean and ready autonomous vehicles when needed.

What You'll Do :

• Own the P&L for the service and calibration operations for the Market
• Develop, implement and communicate standard operating plans to maximize fleet utilization (uptime) to business and company guidelines, directing and controlling the servicing, cleaning, charging, and calibration of autonomous ride-hail vehicles, to meet regulatory, safety, and performance standards
• Responsible for directing, managing, and controlling activities performed by the Depot Managers, Fleet Specialists, Lot Coordinators, and other applicable roles to ensure efficient delivery of client expectations.
• Manage performance of team members / employees against business plan by setting, communicating, monitoring, and updating goals as needed for key performance indicators on a regular and consistent basis for servicing, cleaning, charging, and calibration, including, but not limited to, uptime, associate productivity, response time, and quality metrics
• Forecast, budget, and manage key financial drivers including, but not limited to, S&W per day, revenue per unit, transactions, utilization, and material cost.
• Perform detailed quantitative and qualitative data analysis to generate strategic and tactical decisions to implement continuous process improvements to maximize fleet and reduce off-grid time
• Partner with the respective Depot Fleet Maintenance Leader and Managers, and / or the partner's product, engineering, IT, and other departments to prioritize the workload to accomplish the needs of the business
• Partner with ABG operations, IT, facilities, procurement, and other departments to leverage scale and expertise.
• Oversee, manage, and maintain vendor relationships and workload assignment, ensuring established service levels and standards are met and that all vendor management policies and procedures are followed
• Manage all areas of the employee lifecycle including hiring, onboarding, training, recognition, motivation, development, and performance management to enable a high-performance culture
• Manage all facets of employee relations, including, but not limited to, implementing HR policies and practices in a consistent and fair manner, in accordance with Company policies and partnering with Human Resources Business Partners where appropriate
• Provide a safe work environment by ensuring all safety policies and practices are followed and maintained, partnering with Safety where appropriate

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The Fine Print :

Avis Budget Group is an equal opportunity employer M / F / Veterans / Disabled.

This advertisement does not constitute a promise or guarantee of employment. This advertisement describes the general nature and level of this position only. Essential functions and responsibilities may change as business needs require. This position may be with any affiliate of Avis Budget Group. Avis Budget Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.