Job Description

Fleet Planner, Middle East

Reports to:

Fleet and Asset Planning Manager, Middle East

Department/Business:

Operations & Commercial

About this job:

To lead a best-in-class fleet planning function that delivers on the key business priorities ensuring we have a clear strategy to meet our business demands.

Sound like you? Here's what you'll need to demonstrate:

Behaviors

• Courage and Conviction - the ability to create a sense of excitement about taking on new challenges and a belief in your capabilities to deliver impact
• Relentless Preparation - preparing thoroughly for all important management decisions
• Drive for results - a deep seated inner desire to compete against standards of excellence and achieve "step changes" in this critical commercial and operational role
• Compelling Communication - recognizing that clear communication is the key to understanding
• Safety and Environment - embraces and promotes a positive safety and environmental culture; recognizes and acts to correct unsafe operating procedures and ensures environmental compliance
• Effectiveness - understanding the key drivers that maximize the returns to Aggreko and ability to execute a plan to support those activities

Desired skills:

• Ability to optimize our fleet with a strategy to get the best returns.
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to liaise, develop and maintain relationships with people at all levels within an organization including the Head of Sales and general manager in Aggreko Middle East.
• Strong analytical skills that can interpret data to track trends and position our fleet accordingly
• Proven Customer focus with a strong sense of urgency for creative solutions
• Methodical approach optimizing current and future processes focusing on business priorities, with ability to enforce processes that are supportive of strategic and operational goals.
• Ability to create and communicate clear reports utilizing existing business tools.

Your key responsibilities:

We're Dynamic & Innovative. In an ever-changing business you will be nimble in seizing opportunities to pioneer effective ways to meet and exceed your responsibilities:

• Recommend proactive fleet positioning and investment opportunities based on analysis of fleet trends
• Drive cost efficiency by proactively positioning assets strategically.
• Gather and review data preparing and presenting to leadership team with suggestions on investment opportunities based on analysis of fleet trends
• Drive optimization in utilization of rental assets using insight and system driven analytical tools.
• Work closely with the Area Sales Managers (ASM's) on order pipeline to understand future fleet demand
• Ability to clearly report forecasted demands to enable buy in from the business leads.
• Ownership of the strategic planning to determine the appropriate level of investment of our assets ensuring this meets future demands.
• Take a leading role interpreting salesforce data to align with available fleet highlighting any shortages.
• Challenge ASM's on offered rates and ensure fleet is allocating to the most rewarding projects.
• Lead weekly pipeline calls with the ASM's and their teams.
• Responsible for working with fleet and logistics lead to align and manage disconnects between strategy and execution
• Build relationships and strong ways of working with our internal and external customers.
• Prepare insightful reporting of functional performance measuring that performance against agreed targets and performance and work with the business execute and deliver.

The people you'll work with:

We're Together. In this role, you will have the opportunity to directly contribute to the success of your colleagues and interact with the wider Aggreko team.

• Head of sales, ME
• Area sales managers, ME
• Head of operations, ME
• Finance business partner, ME
• HR business partner, ME
• Head of finance, ME
• Global fleet manager
• Fleet and logistics lead, ME

Other information you should know:

Travel Requirements:

• Occasional travel up to 25%

About Us

We are the people who use our big boxes to make a massive difference. We believe in the positive impact of power and the ability to control temperature. We believe what we do opens up opportunity and creates potential for individuals, communities, industries and societies over the world. We believe when we work together we can do anything. We believe in the power of our team. We are the people who keep the lights on. And we recruit the best talent, too.

Our four values help us get even better at what we do. It's the Aggreko way of working - we call it Always Orange.

Always Orange means:

Being dynamic: We're nimble and are always ready to react to an ever changing world.
Being expert: We know our stuff, we're great under pressure and we thrive in our busy, fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. We use our experience to make a difference. We know how to challenge and we have the courage of our convictions.
Being together: We play for Team Aggreko and value the expertise of everyone around us. We're accountable and we hold others to account.
Being innovative: We never miss an opportunity to learn, to look out, or to be better.

Aggreko is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an inclusive environment that allows each employee to be their best based upon their merit, talent and aspiration. We do not discriminate, and we abide by the laws in the locations in which we operate.