Senior Manager – Lex Autolease Corporate Sales

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager – Lex Autolease Corporate Sales

LOCATION: Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, involving at least two days per week or 40% of your time in our Manchester hub. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments.

What you’ll be doing

Lex Autolease Corporate Sales partners with some of the UK’s largest and most complex fleet customers, helping them optimise fleet performance, reduce costs and accelerate their sustainability ambitions. Using industry‑leading data and deep sector expertise, we support customers with fleets of 30+ vehicles and workforces of over 1,000, delivering tailored solutions across our Essential, Managed and Outsourced channels. This role sits at the heart of that operation, working closely with teams in our Manchester hub and reporting directly to the Corporate Sales Director.

This is an exciting leadership opportunity to oversee several key Corporate Sales channels — including Essential, Public Sector, Opportunity Management, our Specialist Commercial Vehicle Unit and the Business Performance function. You’ll join the Lex Corporate Leadership Team at a pivotal time for the industry, as electrification, decarbonisation and digital transformation reshape customer expectations and create new opportunities for growth. You’ll lead, inspire and develop a significant multi‑layered team, driving high performance across sales, renewals, customer satisfaction and profitability.

With full P&L accountability for the Essential channel, you’ll shape commercial strategy, influence customer fleet decisions and ensure opportunities progress smoothly through the end‑to‑end sales lifecycle. You’ll play a key role in supporting customers as they transition to more sustainable fleet models, while championing digital transformation and strengthening the way we use data, insight and customer contact strategies to deliver exceptional outcomes.

Why join us?

We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.

Essential skills:

• 5+ years’ experience leading large, multi‑disciplinary sales teams within fleet, leasing, mobility or automotive finance, with a proven ability to drive commercial performance, renewals, customer retention and colleague development at scale.

• 5+ years’ deep technical expertise in Contract Hire, Leasing or Automotive Finance, including advising customers on funding structures, whole‑life cost modelling, residual value dynamics, taxation, EV transition economics and complex fleet funding solutions.

• Consistent track record driving renewal performance, customer retention and commercial outcomes.

• Ability to articulate market insight aligned to sustainability and digital transformation.

• Strong understanding of conduct risk, compliance and risk appetite.

• Confident influencing and constructively challenging at senior stakeholder levels

Any experience of these would be useful:

• Experience leading multi‑channel or multi‑segment sales organisations.

• Experience being responsible for P&L ownership, cost control and Business Performance functions.

• Knowledge of EV transition strategies, fleet sustainability or mobility solutions.

• Experience with CRM platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics.

We know great talent comes from many backgrounds. Even if you don’t meet all criteria, if you have relevant transferable skills, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We offer a wide‑ranging benefits package, including:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance‑related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can tailor to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!