Group Manager

Group Procurement

Hybrid, with national travel as required

Head of Group Procurement

Up to £65,000 per annum (depending on experience)

Full-time, Permanent

October 2026

Care Tech is one of the UK's leading providers of specialist care and education, supporting children, young people and adults with complex needs through more than 600 services and over 11,000 colleagues. Our purpose is to create Extraordinary Days, Every Day for the people we support, and our vehicles play a vital part in that, getting people to school, college, work, activities, appointments and their communities safely and reliably.

The Group Fleet Manager exists to lead and develop Care Tech's fleet function, ensuring the safe, efficient, compliant and cost-effective management of a national fleet of approximately 1,100 leased, hired and owned vehicles across more than 600 sites and offices. This includes around 925 multi-driver vehicles allocated to operational services, 75 maintenance vehicles and 100 company cars and salary sacrifice vehicles.

• Line manager:
  Head of Group Procurement and the wider Group Procurement team
• Direct reports: the internal Fleet Team
• Senior leadership: senior management and executive teams, as recipients of monthly fleet MI and recommendations
• Operations:
  Regional, Service and line managers across adults, children's and education services who rely on fleet vehicles to deliver care and support
• Drivers: more than 4,000 company vehicle, multi-driver and grey fleet drivers
• Support functions:
  Finance (budgets, invoicing and cost control), HR and Payroll (salary sacrifice, driver compliance), Health and Safety, Estates and Maintenance, and ESG/Sustainability (SECR and Scope 3 data)
• External: leasing and daily rental providers, fuel card and telematics suppliers, SMR providers, insurers, brokers and fleet advisors

• Lead, develop and support the internal Fleet Team, setting clear objectives, managing performance and building capability in line with Care Tech's values and people policies.
• Ensure the safe, efficient and effective management of Care Tech's fleet of leased, hired and owned vehicles, including vehicle allocation, replacement, maintenance and disposal.
• Own central control of MOT, vehicle tax, servicing and roadworthiness, and all other statutory fleet requirements, ensuring every vehicle is legal and safe before it is used and that any vehicle that is not is taken off the road promptly.
• Own fuel card governance, including the issue, allocation and cancellation of cards, card controls and spend limits, and regular review of transactions to identify misuse, anomalies or fraud, taking timely action where policy is breached.
• Analyse and manage fuel spend and vehicle tracking data, identifying and delivering cost reductions and operational efficiencies.
• Operate robust daily rental controls, including approval of hires, monitoring of utilisation and hire duration, prompt off-hire of vehicles no longer required, and management of damage and end-of-hire charges, challenging and recovering costs where appropriate.
• Closely monitor vehicle damage and utilisation rates, working with operational managers to reduce damage, improve utilisation and promote safe driving.
• Ensure full policy compliance across more than 4,000 company and grey fleet drivers, taking timely action where compliance requirements are not met.
• Act as the primary liaison between internal stakeholders, advisors and external fleet suppliers, negotiating effectively on cost, service and contract terms.
• Formally manage supplier performance against agreed KPIs and SLAs through regular performance reviews, escalating service failures promptly and recovering service credits, costs or other remedies where appropriate.
• Provide clear advice and guidance to drivers and line managers on fleet policy and best practice, keeping fleet policies current and fit for purpose.
• Maintain a single, accurate central fleet record across vehicles, drivers, suppliers and systems, and periodically reconcile it against supplier, telematics, fuel card, finance and HR/payroll data, resolving discrepancies promptly.
• Validate supplier invoices against contracts and the central fleet record, ensuring queries are resolved promptly.
• Produce monthly management information reports, including fuel card usage, SMR (service,…