Fleet Category Buyer - Americas

ITG Brands is the third-largest tobacco company in the USA with offerings of some of the most well-known cigarette, cigar, and e-vapor brands. As a member of the globally recognized Imperial Brands PLC family, we are a forward-thinking partner with operational integrity.

ITG Brands is committed to putting consumers at the center of what we do, while creating an innovative workplace where inclusion, creativity, and bold thinking drive progress. This empowers us to bring our true selves to work, to collaborate more effectively through showing our passion and being confident to bring new ideas to the table.

We are not afraid to seize opportunities and make things happen – both individually and collaboratively. We strive to exceed expectations by seeing things differently and doing things differently. This truly is a place where we all share a challenger mindset which drives our success.

JOB SUMMARY

The Fleet Category Buyer supports the development and execution of the fleet category strategy, delivering commercial value, operational performance, and compliant fleet solutions across assigned region.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Implement the fleet category strategy across Americas. Ensuring that the strategy aligns with local policies and regional regulations.
• Act as the category subject‑matter expert for fleet and mobility in region
• Accountability and ownership for regional category plan
• Build and maintain strong working relationships internally with business stakeholders and externally with key service providers to influence at a strategic level
• Provide insights and recommendations to support continuous improvement of the category.
• Lead or support tendering and sourcing initiatives, e.g. vehicle supply, leasing and maintenance.
• Deliver cost savings and value creation through negotiation and fleet specification optimisation.
• Manage pricing mechanisms, benchmarking, and contract compliance.
• Analyse total cost of ownership and identify improvement opportunities.
• Manage day-to-day relationships with fleet management company / suppliers and service providers.
• Track and manage supplier performance against SLAs, KPIs, and contract obligations.
• Ensure method alignment with other regional fleet category managers
• Own operational fleet management delivery through managing outsourced supplier delivery
• Ensure robust governance and risk management, and fleet standards and specifications globally, balancing cost, operational needs, safety, sustainability brand requirements.

Critical Decisions

• Supplier Selection
• Run tenders and contract renewals
• Execute Fleet category strategy
• Manage Supplier performance, SLAs and KPIs
• Decide how to optimise TCO
• Decide on vehicle safety standards and specifications.
• Decide which fleet management systems and data tools to use in regional and implementation approach / delivery
• Identify cost‑reduction or value‑add initiatives
• Apply fleet strategy to Americas.

Key Capabilities

• Fleet and mobility procurement capability within a regional environment (Americas).
• Fleet category execution and regional category planning capability.
• Sourcing, tendering and contract renewal support capability across vehicle supply, leasing and maintenance.
• Commercial awareness across cost savings, value creation, pricing mechanisms, benchmarking and total cost of ownership.
• Supplier relationship and supplier performance management capability across fleet management companies, suppliers and service providers.
• SLA, KPI and contract compliance monitoring capability.
• Fleet standards, specifications, safety and sustainability awareness.
• Operational fleet delivery capability through outsourced supplier management.
• Risk, governance, compliance and regional regulation awareness.
• Stakeholder management across Finance, Legal, P&C, market…