We have an exciting new opportunity to join the Direct Sales Team as an Area Fleet Manager on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract basis. Interviews for this role will take place in January. This exciting role is responsible for pro-actively developing great relationships with existing and prospective customers. You'll be accountable for maintaining strong retailer and leasing company engagement and be responsible for the delivery of annual sales and order targets through agreed market channels. Reporting into the Fleet Manager, you will be part of a team working with our corporate customers directly to build strong and lasting relationships that will deliver against our sales and loyalty ambitions, now and in the future. You'll have the confidence and presence to influence both new and existing customers in this role. It is essential you are self-motivated, have strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships quickly at all levels, across both the Volkswagen Group and our customers. This is a field based role covering Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Skills & experience you can bring to the role: Excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills and confidence to challenge ideas. Ability to develop relationships quickly at all levels. Good commercial acumen and awareness. Drive to achieve commercial targets and objectives. Experience of working in a customer focused environment and within B2B sales.