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Jay Schoenfeld

Jay Schoenfeld

Aurora,CO

Summary

Seasoned Regional Fleet Manager with experience in managing large fleets, reducing operational costs, and increasing efficiency. Strengths include strategic planning, logistics coordination, and team management. Previous work highlights include successful cost reduction strategies implementation and noteworthy improvements in fleet maintenance protocols.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification
22
22

Professional Experience

Work History

Regional Fleet Manager

Avis Budget Group International
Denver Metropolitan Area
02.2021 - Current
  • Fleet Utilization for CO/WY (22,600 vehicles)
  • Inventory Management
  • Maintenance and Repair Oversight
  • Cost Management
  • Depreciation Management
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Safety Standards
  • Telematics Systems
  • Alignment with Sales and Marketing
  • Pricing and Demand
  • People Management: Team Leadership/Training and Development
  • Logistics Management
  • Land Management
  • Loss Prevention
  • Documented equipment transfers and sales details for accurate record keeping.
  • Positively interacted with drivers, upper management and shop department, which helped improve overall communication.
  • Increased regulatory compliance by monitoring vehicles to verify adherence to operational, state and federal requirements.
  • Generated daily reports detailing suggested process improvement initiatives to inform management.
  • Streamlined operations to increase productivity and oversaw employees to maximize outcomes.
  • Proactively identified and solved complex problems that impacted management and business direction.
  • Coordinated driver dispatch to accomplish daily delivery requirements.
  • Developed and maintained knowledgeable and productive team of employees.
  • Organized records of vehicles, schedules and completed orders.

General Manager

SIXT
Minneapolis, United States
01.2020 - 02.2021
  • Overseeing daily business activities.
  • Improving overall business functions.
  • Managing budgets.
  • Developing strategic plans.
  • Creating policies
  • Communicating business goals.
  • Overseeing 11 employees at a new start up location.
  • Implemented all new location start up policies as a General Manager.
  • Communicated all processes and trained staff to hold service levels to the highest standards.
  • Coordinates all inspection, repair and maintenance activities performed by outside vendors.
  • Develops and implements periodic inspection and preventative maintenance programs for a fleet of 260 vehicles.
  • Maintains accurate and complete records of all inspection and maintenance activities.
  • Performs assigned duties to complete staff and outside vendors.
  • Managed budget implementations, employee reviews, training, schedules, and contract negotiations.
  • Maximized efficiency by coaching and mentoring personnel on management principles, industry practices, company procedures, and technology systems.
  • Negotiated price and service with customers and vendors to decrease expenses and increase profit.
  • Trained and guided team members to maintain high productivity and performance metrics.
  • Assisted in recruiting, hiring and training of team members.
  • Identified and qualified customer needs and negotiated and closed profitable projects with high success rate.
  • Implemented operational strategies and effectively built customer and employee loyalty.
  • Tracked employee attendance and punctuality, addressing repeat problems quickly to prevent long-term habits.
  • Developed and implemented strategies to increase sales and profitability.

Senior Fleet Manager

SIXT
Orlando, Area
01.2019 - 01.2020
  • Managed office of 5 fleet assistants & 2 fleet managers and 30+ vendors
  • Managed fleet up to 2400 vehicles
  • Performed logistics
  • Revamped outdated processes, developed new efficient processes
  • Managed and mentored fleet and branch staff
  • Performed budgeting
  • Improved vendor management and rapport
  • Minimize vehicle downtime and units out of service
  • Schedules and contacts vendors for in-house fleet repairs, and coordinates outside repairs with external vendors
  • Created detailed reports to stream line processes to ensure location will be prepared for growing to a fleet of 5,000 vehicles
  • Significantly reduced sale vehicle days from 17 days to under 4 days in two months and maintained this trend
  • Provide the branch with a complete and accurate work order with all charges transparently presented
  • Managed outside vendor work to established service levels and quality standards.
  • Ensure proper use of purchase orders, receipt of services and payment of invoices.
  • Maintained up-to-date files on vendor insurance policies.
  • Helped develop the layout and building of the new maintenance facility and proper flow of production
  • Authorizes tool and equipment purchases
  • Approve all maintenance expenditures
  • Implemented daily/monthly/yearly structure for better communication
  • Supervised maintenance team and effectively delegated assignments to optimize processes.
  • Maintained accurate driver information for delivery scheduling.

Fleet Manager

SIXT
Greater Denver, Area
01.2018 - 01.2019
  • Managed office of two fleet assistants
  • Coordinated 4-5 fleet drivers and logistics
  • Managed fleet of over 1,100 vehicles
  • Developed new start up location processes
  • Mentored fleet assistants, fleet planners, customer service agents and sales agents to develop their skills
  • Assisted in sale vehicles, in-fleets and managing maintenance vehicles
  • Handled collision damage vehicles from beginning to end and wrote estimates on site
  • Deemed heavy collision vehicles total losses on site without the cost of teardown or towing
  • Supervised maintenance team and effectively delegated assignments to optimize processes.
  • Coordinated safety meetings to educate team members on best practices to mitigate hazard opportunities.
  • Completed projects by effectively delegating tasks and overseeing employee performance.
  • Documented equipment transfers and sales details for accurate record keeping.
  • Streamlined operations to increase productivity and oversaw employees to maximize outcomes.
  • Trained new staff on job duties, company policies, and safety procedures for rapid onboarding.
  • Negotiated contracts with outside providers and rates for facility leases to minimize costs to company.
  • Organized records of vehicles, schedules and completed orders.
  • Created and enforced detailed organization processes to increase quality and service standards.
  • Led improvement initiatives to advance operational efficiencies and increase revenue.

Operations Manager

DNM Events / Holiday Artisans
Denver, CO
08.2017 - 05.2018
  • Manage and drive favorable employee and customer experiences
  • Manage logistics and operations for all events
  • Manage quality controls for all event preparation and operations
  • Manage fleet vehicle maintenance and regulatory requirements
  • Manage budgetary items, estimate pricing, labor, and rentals for all operations
  • Manger customer experiences and expectations during all stages of the event
  • Train direct and indirect employees on equipment and procedures
  • Established positive and effective communication among unit staff and organization leadership, reducing miscommunications, and missed deadlines.
  • Identified and resolved unauthorized, unsafe, or ineffective practices.
  • Negotiated contracts with vendors and suppliers to obtain best pricing and terms.
  • Supervised operations staff and kept employees compliant with company policies and procedures.

Special Automotive Claims Manager

Farmers Insurance Group of Companies
Greater Denver, Area
10.2003 - 06.2017
  • Trained current claim representatives and new hires
  • Maintained customer satisfaction of 95%
  • Managed a book of business worth approximately $2 million per year
  • Negotiated pricing and estimated project costs
  • Performed positive customer service relationship and retention responsibilities
  • Ensured customer satisfaction married well with company policies and procedures
  • Traveled to various locations nation-wide to assist with natural disaster claims
  • Championed insurance claims process by providing expert knowledge and building positive, trusting relationship to support clients during challenging times.
  • Determined proper course of action for claims processing.
  • Documented and communicated timely claims information while supporting accurate outcomes.
  • Handled claims consistent with client and corporate policies, procedures, best practices and regulations.

Education

Bachelor's Degree - Automotive Engineering

Minnesota State University, Mankato
01.2002

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Fleet utilization
  • Inventory management
  • Cost management
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Telematics systems
  • Logistics management
  • Team leadership
  • Employee training
  • Vendor management
  • Process improvement
  • Budget management
  • Data analysis
  • Strategic planning
  • Customer service
  • Cost control
  • Transportation management
  • Route planning
  • Asset management
  • Driver management
  • Performance analysis
  • Fleet optimization
  • Vehicle maintenance
  • Fleet management
  • Estimating
  • Operations Management
  • Operations and logistics
  • Preventive Maintenance
  • Safety monitoring
  • Expense tracking
  • Training and education
  • Transportation regulations
  • GPS navigation
  • Telematics analysis
  • MS office suite
  • Vehicle acquisition
  • Mechanical aptitude
  • Load assignment coordination
  • Vehicle inspections
  • Insurance management
  • Customer relationship management
  • Inventory control
  • Data analytics
  • Employee management
  • License management
  • Distribution schedule management
  • Accident management
  • Effective communication
  • Fleet scheduling
  • Fleet monitoring
  • Fleet policy development
  • Lifecycle management
  • Inspection and quality assurance
  • Scheduling
  • Profit maximization techniques
  • Vendor collaboration
  • Equipment procurement
  • Vehicle disposal
  • Cost reduction
  • Resource management
  • Standards documentation
  • Multitasking capacity
  • Business acumen
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Transportation activity management
  • Teamwork
  • Goal setting

Certification

I-CAR

Chief Automotive Frame Certification

Languages

English

Affiliations

  • Served on the Commerical Transportation Advisory Board for Denver International Airport going on 3 years

Languages

English
Full Professional

Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Work Location

RemoteOn-Site

Important To Me

Career advancementWork-life balanceCompany Culture

Accomplishments

  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
  • Supervised team of 11+ staff members.

Work Availability

monday
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Software

Excel

Outlook

Teams

GPS tracking systems

Quote

The secret to getting ahead is getting started
Mark Twain

Timeline

Regional Fleet Manager

Avis Budget Group International
02.2021 - Current

General Manager

SIXT
01.2020 - 02.2021

Senior Fleet Manager

SIXT
01.2019 - 01.2020

Fleet Manager

SIXT
01.2018 - 01.2019

Operations Manager

DNM Events / Holiday Artisans
08.2017 - 05.2018

Special Automotive Claims Manager

Farmers Insurance Group of Companies
10.2003 - 06.2017

Bachelor's Degree - Automotive Engineering

Minnesota State University, Mankato

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