Position : HEAD OF FLEET

Experinces : 10 + years

Location : Bangalore (Frequent field travel required to Tamil Nadu)

MANDATE & CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

Role at a glance

- Director-level ownership of a revenue-linked EV fleet function.
- Current scale: 1,500+ three-wheeler EVs, ~50 pit stops/technicians and two cluster managers across Tamil Nadu.

Mandatory requirements
- Tamil-speaking; frequent field travel and direct engagement with technicians and workshops.
- Hands-on fleet leadership, technical judgement and practical EV/battery understanding.
- P&L; exposure; able to discuss revenue, costs and trade-offs with business finance.
- Ability to build operating systems and lead a lean, distributed team.
- Candidate evidence: fleet/team scale, systems built and measurable operational improvements.

Business impact the candidate must demonstrate
- Improve uptime, repair turnaround and maintenance cost per vehicle.
- Identify recurring failures and fix root causes; avoid repeated temporary repairs.
- Build vehicle histories, job cards, preventive maintenance and accident/insurance SOPs.
- Assess vehicle condition, battery upgrades and replacement timing to extend useful life.




- Build OEM/workshop partnerships and use product-led automation where practical.
- Candidate evidence: before/after results, durable technical fixes and systems that supported growth.

Revenue ownership the candidate must demonstrate
- Work backward from weekly, monthly and quarterly revenue plans to fleet readiness.
- Prioritise uptime and backup vehicles by location revenue and future potential.
- Set different service levels for different business cohorts; protect high-value sales.
- Agree repair-speed, redundancy and cost trade-offs with business finance.
- Candidate evidence: how fleet decisions protected sales, supported growth and balanced cost.

Additional mandate and open points
- 30 days: diagnose/take control. 60–90 days: resolve priority failures. Six months: stabilise the operating system.
- Later priorities: sourcing, OEM terms and ownership versus pay-per-use options.
- Target backgrounds (search guidance): EV/commercial fleets, last-mile operations or OEM service with fleet and commercial ownership.

📌 Head of Fleet (Bengaluru)
🏢 Antal International
📍 Bengaluru