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Payne heads up stronger new Nissan fleet team to meet surge in demand

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Adam Connelly with the new Nissan mid-sized fleet team

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28 July 2016

THE NISSAN fleet team is boosted with key appointments and structural changes in its corporate sales team to keep pace with growing demand from fleet customers.

The move, which has seen the corporate sales team at Nissan Motor (GB) (NMGB) grow significantly, follows another record year for fleet sales in the UK. The brand registered 74,768 passenger cars and 10,398 vans to business users in 2015 to hit an all-time high market share of 5.68%.

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Darren Payne

At the head of the team is Darren Payne, formerly sales director at Renault UK, who was  appointed to the newly created role of UK sales director in May, overseeing both retail and corporate sales. See Key changes at Renault and Nissan.

Reporting directly to Darren, Robert Tweedie has been appointed fleet sales director and will oversee day-to-day fleet sales operations.

 Nissan fleet team
Rob Tweedie

Most recently, Robert was electric vehicle category manager at NMGB, having joined the company in 2010 following a lengthy and successful career at dealer level.

Meanwhile, Mark Wheeler, formerly fleet sales director, has moved to another newly created role – director of LCV and customer relationships.

 Nissan fleet team
Mark Wheeler

This new position, also reporting directly to Darren, underlines Nissan’s determination to strengthen its performance in the van and light commercials sector ahead of the launch of the new NV300 later this year.

It will also help the wider Corporate Sales team maintain its laser focus on improving the customer experience and driving forward the brand’s growing reputation in fleet circles.

Finally, eight experienced fleet sales professionals have been recruited to form a new mid-sized fleet team, offering specialist advice and support to customers operating between 50 and 200 vehicles.

 Nissan fleet team
Adam Connelly

Based across the regions, the new mid-sized fleet team will be led by Adam Connelly, a new recruit from SEAT, where he was most recently contract hire manager.

Darren Payne said: “Nissan’s presence in the fleet sector has grown significantly in recent years and we intend to remain on this upward trajectory.

“The key appointments we have made will ensure we have the right people in place to achieve all of our reputational targets and growth aspirations moving forward.

“Meanwhile, the changes we have implemented will make us much more flexible as an organisation and better able to respond to the changing needs of our fleet customers.”

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