
Senior Vehicle Operations Manager
Required skills
- vehicle operations
- fleet availability
- revenue generation
- customer operations
- operating performance
- customer satisfaction
- employee culture
- service
- budgets
- safety
Nice to have
- Car Rental experience
- Hospitality experience
- Tourism experience
- Microsoft Office Suite
Role summary
The Senior Vehicle Operations Manager leads vehicle operations, focusing on back-of-the-house processes, vehicle care, and efficiency. This role oversees managers and employees, managing daily operations, fleet availability, and revenue generation for a specific location or brand. Key responsibilities include driving productivity improvements, ensuring adherence to standards, fostering employee engagement, conducting performance evaluations, and participating in recruitment. The position requires strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills, with a preference for candidates with experience in customer service, operations, car rental, hospitality, or tourism.
The Senior Vehicle Operations Manager focuses on the back-of-the-house processes, vehicle care and management, and maximizing efficiencies as a leader on the Vehicle Operations team. The Senior Vehicle Operations Manager oversees a brand or department of the location to ensure maximum performance through superior operational leadership, strong communication and maximum efficiency. The Senior Manager helps to provide overall leadership to customer operations employees with responsibility for overall operating performance, customer satisfaction, positive employee culture, service, budgets, safety, and vendor relations.
The salary range for this position is $TBD
What You’ll Do:
- Oversee Vehicle Operations Managers and other vehicle operations employees
- Manage daily vehicle operations, fleet availability, and revenue generation for the assigned function
- Lead and support processes to meet and exceed expectations
- Resolve vehicle operations issues to ensure a positive rental experience
- Constantly champion productivity improvements via employee involvement and accountability; ensures employees are following the Standards of Work (SOW)
- Actively engage in effective communication plans focused on building employee engagement in order to achieve business results
- Conduct performance evaluations that are timely and constructive, where applicable
- Participate in the recruiting process, as required
- Provide management with various updates and indicators as requested
- Remain current on all administrative duties according to company policy
What We’re Looking For:
- 1-3 years’ experience in Customer Service or Operations; Car Rental, Hospitality or Tourism experience preferred
- High School Diploma required, Bachelor’s Degree preferred
- Moderate proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders across multiple functions and locations
- Ability to influence
- Flexible and adaptable; ability to work effectively in ambiguous situations
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Results driven, ability to make decisions and help solve problems
- Ability to build and lead a diverse, high-performing, results-oriented, and highly-engaged team.
- Ability to drive process and organizational change.
- Ability to motivate teams and keep a positive attitude in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work under minimal supervision with a goal-oriented mindset.
- Ability to see the big picture and leverage critical thinking and decision-making skills.
- Excellent organization, time management, delegation, and prioritization skills.
- Courageous leadership and accountability.
What You’ll Get:
- Paid Time Off
- Medical, Dental & Vision plan options
- Retirement programs, including 401(k) employer matching
- Paid Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program for employees & family
- Educational Reimbursement & Discounts
- Voluntary Insurance Programs - Pet, Legal/Identity Theft, Critical Illness
- Perks & Discounts –Theme Park Tickets, Gym Discounts & more
The Hertz Corporation operates the Hertz, Dollar Car Rental, Thrifty Car Rental brands in approximately 9,700 corporate and franchisee locations throughout North America, Europe, The Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide airport general use vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized in the world. US EEO STATEMENT At Hertz, we champion and celebrate a culture of diversity and inclusion. We take affirmative steps to promote employment and advancement opportunities. The endless variety of perspectives, experiences, skills and talents that our employees invest in their work every day represent a significant part of our culture – and our success and reputation as a company. Individuals are encouraged to apply for positions because of the characteristics that make them unique. EOE, including disability/veteran
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