Fleet Sales Graduate

Launch Your Career with Vertu

Are you ambitious, commercially minded and ready to build a successful career within one of the UK's leading automotive retail businesses? At Vertu, our people drive our success. With over 7,500 colleagues working across a nationwide network of dealerships and specialist operations, we're committed to developing talent and creating long-term career opportunities.

Our Fleet & Corporate Sales Graduate Programme has been designed to develop the next generation of Fleet and Corporate Sales leaders. Over two years, you'll gain hands-on experience, receive structured development and work alongside experienced professionals within our thriving Group Fleet operation.

This is a unique opportunity to join one of our specialist Fleet Hubs and develop the skills, knowledge and commercial awareness needed to progress into future management and leadership positions.

This position will be based at our Group Fleet Hub in Chesterfield.

What You'll Be Doing

Throughout the programme, you'll gain exposure to:

• Fleet operations and administration
• Customer relationship management
• Corporate account management
• Leasing company partnerships
• Commercial decision making
• Leadership and people management skills
• Stakeholder engagement
• Business improvement projects
• Fleet industry events and networking opportunities

As you progress, you'll take increasing ownership of customers, accounts and projects while developing the confidence and capability to move into more senior roles.

Your Development Journey

Year 1: Building Strong Foundations

You'll learn every aspect of our fleet operation, including:

• Fleet systems and processes
• Customer communication
• Vehicle ordering and delivery
• Commercial awareness
• Team collaboration and leadership fundamentals

Year 2: Customer & Commercial Ownership

You'll develop into an account management role with exposure to:

• Managing customer relationships
• Strategic account planning
• Influencing and stakeholder management
• Commercial reporting and decision making
• Senior leadership exposure
• Career progression planning

Requirements

We're looking for individuals who:

• Have achieved a 2:1 degree in a relevant field
• Are passionate about building a career in business, sales, account management or the automotive sector
• Have strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Are proactive, ambitious and eager to learn
• Demonstrate leadership potential
• Enjoy working with customers and delivering results
• Have a strong commercial mindset

No previous fleet experience is required. We're looking for people with the right attitude, ambition and potential to become future leaders within our business.

What You'll Receive

• £28,000 starting salary
• Structured two-year development programme
• Dedicated coaching and mentoring
• Access to industry-leading training and development
• Exposure to senior leaders across Vertu
• Clear progression opportuniti
• Colleague benefits and discounts
• Pension scheme
• Holiday entitlement

Recruitment Process

Our selection process has been designed to identify ambitious individuals with the potential to become future leaders within our Fleet and Corporate Sales teams.

The process will consist of:

• Application and shortlisting including video assessments
• Physical Assessment Centre: Friday 20th November 2026
• Final Interviews: Week Commencing 23 November 2026
• Programme Start Date: 4 January 2027

Due to the limited number of places available across our Fleet Hubs, we encourage early applications.

With structured development, mentoring from experienced leaders, real customer exposure and clear progression opportunities, you'll gain the skills and experience needed to become one of our future Fleet and Corporate Sales leaders.

If you're looking for a role where you'll be challenged, supported and given the opportunity to grow, we'd love to hear from you.

Applications are now open for our 2027 intake.