How to Apply to Element Fleet

16 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 1 open positions

Key Takeaways

  • Element Fleet Management (TSX: EFN) is the largest publicly-traded fleet management company in the world, headquartered at 161 Bay Street in Toronto and operating across Canada, the United States, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand. Approximately 1.5 million vehicles under management, approximately 3,500 employees, approximately C$1.5 billion in 2024 revenue.
  • The business pillars are vehicle acquisition and financing, in-service maintenance management, fuel card and expense management, telematics, accident management, remarketing, and fleet electrification consulting. Element sits between OEMs, dealers, fuel networks, maintenance networks, and Fortune 500 corporate fleet customers.
  • Workday is the canonical ATS at elementfleet.com/careers, covering a single global tenant across North America, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand. Custom Fleet-branded Australia and New Zealand roles also surface through customfleet.com.au and customfleet.co.nz but feed the same Workday backend.
  • Peer set for positioning: Holman Enterprises (private US), Enterprise Fleet Management (Enterprise Holdings), Wheels/Donlen (Apollo/Athene), and Ayvens (BNP Paribas — the ALD and LeasePlan combination). Element is the only publicly-traded pure-play in the set and the only Canadian-headquartered peer.
  • CEO Laura Dottori-Attanasio, a former senior CIBC executive, took over in August 2023 succeeding Jay Forbes. Her tenure has emphasized disciplined growth, Custom Fleet integration, Element Advantage platform investment, and a leadership position in corporate fleet electrification.
  • Geography matters: Toronto is the corporate centre, Hopewell NJ is the US operational centre inherited from the 2015 GE Fleet acquisition, Jacksonville FL supports US operations, Mississauga supports Canadian operations, Mexico City runs Mexican operations, and Melbourne, Sydney, and Auckland run Custom Fleet Australia and New Zealand acquired from GE Capital in 2021 for approximately A$520 million.
  • Industry vocabulary matters more than generic 'operations' or 'logistics' framing: total cost of ownership, cents per mile, open-end lease, closed-end lease, TRAC lease, residual value risk, remarketing, telematics, accident management, fuel card programs. For Australia and New Zealand, novated lease and FBT vocabulary. For EV transition roles, EV TCO, depot charging, utility interconnection, fleet electrification roadmap.
  • Credentials that carry weight: NAFA Certified Automotive Fleet Manager (CAFM) and Certified Automotive Fleet Specialist (CAFS) for North American fleet management roles; AfMA programs for Australasian roles; CAFM is an unambiguous positive for fleet consulting and strategic account management.
  • Compensation is competitive for Canadian commercial services. Toronto mid-level corporate and fleet consulting roles run roughly C$90,000 to C$140,000 base plus short-term incentive and benefits; senior Toronto corporate roles C$140,000 to C$220,000 plus short-term and long-term incentives. US roles benchmark to American commercial services; Custom Fleet Australia and New Zealand roles benchmark to local markets.
  • Hiring is structured, multi-stage, and deliberate. Three to four rounds is typical, and the gap between final interview and offer commonly runs one to three weeks. Pushing for faster decisions misreads the institution.

About Element Fleet

Element Fleet Management Corp. is the largest publicly-traded fleet management company in the world, headquartered at 161 Bay Street in Toronto, Ontario, and listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange as EFN. Founded in 2013 when it was spun out of Element Financial Corporation as a pure-play fleet management business, Element today manages and finances approximately 1.5 million commercial vehicles for corporate customers across North America, Australia, and New Zealand — a client base that includes a large share of the Fortune 500 commercial fleets, government fleets, and mid-market commercial operators who depend on an outsourced partner to run the back office of their vehicle operations. The consolidated group employs roughly 3,500 people across Canada, the United States, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand, and generated approximately C$1.5 billion in revenue in 2024. The business model is deliberately unglamorous and structurally durable: Element does not manufacture vehicles and does not directly operate them, but it sits between the manufacturer, the dealer, the fuel network, the maintenance network, the insurer, and the corporate fleet operator, handling vehicle acquisition and financing, in-service maintenance management, fuel cards and expense management, telematics, accident management, remarketing at end of life, and — increasingly — the consultative work of helping corporate customers transition their fleets from internal combustion to battery electric vehicles. The industry context matters for any candidate: Element's principal global peers are Holman Enterprises (privately held, Mt. Laurel NJ), Enterprise Fleet Management (a division of privately held Enterprise Holdings, St. Louis MO), Wheels Inc. (now consolidated under Athene/Apollo private equity ownership after the 2022 acquisition and subsequent merger activity with Donlen and LeasePlan), and Ayvens (the BNP Paribas-owned combination of ALD Automotive and LeasePlan that is the dominant European fleet management franchise). Element is the only one of this peer set that is a publicly-traded pure-play fleet management company, and the only one headquartered in Canada — both of which shape the operating tempo, the disclosure discipline, and the cultural defaults of the institution. The Toronto head office at 161 Bay Street in the Brookfield Place complex is the strategic and corporate centre, but candidates should understand the distributed geographic reality early: the US operations are run principally out of Hopewell, New Jersey (legacy GE Capital Fleet Services campus inherited through the 2015 GE Fleet acquisition) and Jacksonville, Florida; the Canadian operational footprint includes Mississauga alongside Toronto; the Mexican operations run out of Mexico City; and the Australian and New Zealand business — acquired in 2021 as Custom Fleet from GE Capital for approximately A$520 million and now fully integrated into the Element Advantage platform — operates out of Melbourne, Sydney, and Auckland. Laura Dottori-Attanasio, a long-tenured former senior executive of CIBC who joined as President and CEO in August 2023 succeeding Jay Forbes, has set a clear strategic direction around disciplined growth in the core North American business, full realization of the Custom Fleet integration in Australia and New Zealand, continued investment in the Element Advantage proprietary client platform, and a leadership position in corporate fleet electrification — positioning Element as the consultative partner that Fortune 500 customers turn to when they need to execute a multi-year EV transition across thousands of vehicles. For candidates, the honest framing is that Element is a stable, well-capitalized, disciplined public company in an industry that is quietly critical to how North American and Australasian commerce actually moves. The work rewards candidates who value durable customer relationships, rigorous operational execution, and long-horizon thinking about the electrification of commercial transportation over candidates who want fast-cycle consumer technology velocity.


Interview Culture

Interviewing at Element Fleet Management is a structured, multi-stage process that favours the prepared, the specific, and the commercially literate.

Across the group the modal process is three to four rounds: a recruiter screen of 30 minutes, a hiring manager interview of 45 to 60 minutes, a panel or technical interview of 60 to 90 minutes, and frequently a final conversation with a director or vice president. For senior fleet consulting, strategic account management, EV transition services, and Toronto corporate roles, a fifth round with a divisional executive is common. Senior leadership roles may include a conversation with a member of the Executive Leadership Team; the most senior roles can include a meeting with CEO Laura Dottori-Attanasio or CFO Frank Ruperto at the final stage. Element's interview culture is recognizably Canadian publicly-traded commercial services: behavioural questions framed in the STAR format dominate, interviewers take detailed notes, and candidate responses are scored against pre-defined competency rubrics that are calibrated across panels. For fleet consulting and strategic account roles, expect questions that probe customer situation judgment ('walk me through a time you had to tell a Fortune 500 fleet director that their current contract structure was costing them significantly more than an alternative you were proposing — how did you prepare, how did you deliver the message, and what was the commercial outcome?'), commercial literacy ('how would you explain open-end versus closed-end lease economics to a CFO who has never worked with a fleet management partner?'), and scale of judgment ('what was the largest individual customer decision you have supported, and what was the structure of your involvement?'). Technical interviews for analytics, data, and finance roles are rigorous: case studies on residual value risk, fleet economics modelling, total cost of ownership analysis, and EV transition business cases are fair game depending on the role. For EV transition consulting specifically, interviewers probe both the quantitative fluency (utility rate structure modelling, charging infrastructure capital cost, EV total cost of ownership versus internal combustion benchmarks) and the change-management sensibility (how you would guide a Fortune 500 transportation director through a multi-year transition across driver training, depot capital works, and utility interconnection) — Element's value proposition in electrification is consultative, and the interview tests whether you can hold the consultative posture in front of a skeptical customer. For Custom Fleet Australia and New Zealand roles, interviews focus on the specifically Australasian commercial context: novated lease structures, FBT treatment, Australian fleet procurement panels, and the operational realities of supporting a customer base from Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, and Australian government fleet contracts. For technology roles supporting the Element Advantage platform, expect system design questions grounded in real architecture concerns: integrating with OEM telematics feeds, fuel card network integrations, maintenance authorization workflows, multi-currency financial reporting across five countries, and the data-residency and privacy expectations of Canadian, US, Mexican, and Australian regulators. The cultural undercurrent is disciplined, client-centred, and deliberate: interviewers ask candidates where they see themselves in three to five years and they take the answer seriously. Candidates who frame Element as a stepping stone to a consumer technology company are screened out; candidates who engage seriously with the durability of the fleet management franchise and the electrification opportunity perform well. Compensation conversations happen late in the process and are professional rather than aggressive — Element tends to bring competent first offers with measured movement on negotiation. Total compensation includes a comprehensive benefits package, group RRSP and 401(k) matching, an employee share purchase plan tied to TSX:EFN, and performance-based short-term incentive compensation (higher weighting for sales, fleet consulting, and strategic account roles). Decisions arrive on a measured timeline: a one-to-three-week gap between final interview and offer is the norm, not a signal of declining interest.

What Element Fleet Looks For

  • Genuine fleet management, commercial automotive, or enterprise B2B services experience — ideally at a fleet peer (Holman, Enterprise Fleet, Wheels/Donlen, Ayvens/ALD/LeasePlan, ARI), a fleet-adjacent OEM or dealer group, a telematics or fuel card provider, or a Fortune 500 corporate fleet customer. Candidates from outside the industry can succeed but need to demonstrate they understand what the business actually does beyond the marketing-page description.
  • Commercial literacy in vehicle lifecycle economics. Total cost of ownership, cents per mile or cents per kilometre, residual value risk, open-end and closed-end lease economics, TRAC leases, novated leases for Australian roles, maintenance spend dynamics, fuel economy and telematics-driven behaviour programs. Even technology and operations roles are expected to know how Element makes money and how customers save it.
  • Client relationship seriousness. Element's strategic account business rests on multi-year Fortune 500 and government fleet relationships, and hiring managers screen for candidates who take customer accountability seriously, can hold a substantive conversation with a fleet director or CFO, and understand that the work is measured on long-horizon retention and net revenue growth rather than quarterly transaction volume.
  • EV transition fluency where the role calls for it. Element has positioned fleet electrification as a long-term growth priority, and candidates with demonstrable experience in EV TCO modelling, charging infrastructure deployment, utility interconnection economics, or change management for driver adoption are specifically in demand for the Toronto and Hopewell EV transition teams.
  • Regulatory and compliance literacy. Provincial and federal securities regulation for the Canadian publicly-traded parent, state insurance and motor vehicle regulators across the US, CONDUSEF for Mexican financial services, ASIC and APRA for Australian financial services, plus industry-specific frameworks around data privacy (PIPEDA, CCPA, GDPR-equivalent Australian Privacy Principles). Even technology and operations roles are expected to know which regulator their work answers to.
  • Quantitative and analytical discipline. Fleet management is a numbers-heavy business — residual value risk, telematics data, fuel spend analytics, maintenance spend optimization, EV transition economics. Candidates with strong data fluency, comfortable working in SQL, Excel at depth, and modern BI tooling, are favoured across fleet consulting, strategic accounts, operations, and corporate functions.
  • Cultural alignment with a publicly-traded Canadian commercial services institution. Element's corporate identity is not venture-backed technology velocity; it is durable, deliberate, client-centred commercial services with quarterly public reporting discipline. Candidates who engage with that identity perform better than those who treat the Toronto Bay Street head office as a constraint.
  • Longevity and internal-mobility potential. Element has invested heavily in internal career development, and hiring managers consciously evaluate whether a candidate has the temperament and ambition to grow inside the institution rather than treat the position as a stepping stone elsewhere. A resume of three-plus year tenures with clear progression reads as a strong positive signal.
  • Clean motor vehicle record for client-facing field roles. Strategic account managers and fleet consultants who drive company vehicles or customer vehicles during site visits need a clean driving record; motor vehicle record checks are a real gating requirement, not a formality.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does compensation at Element Fleet Management compare across Toronto, the US, and Australia?
For Canadian roles, base salary at Element sits within the competitive band for Toronto publicly-traded commercial services employers. Mid-level corporate and fleet consulting roles in Toronto can expect roughly C$90,000 to C$140,000 base plus short-term incentive and benefits, depending on function and experience; senior Toronto corporate roles C$140,000 to C$220,000 plus short-term and long-term incentives; director and VP-level roles above C$220,000 with meaningful equity participation through the employee share purchase plan and performance share units. For US roles based in Hopewell NJ, Jacksonville FL, or field territories, compensation benchmarks to American commercial services in the respective metros — New Jersey total compensation runs higher than Toronto at equivalent levels in nominal currency but broadly comparable in purchasing power terms. For Custom Fleet Australia and New Zealand, compensation benchmarks to local Australasian fleet management and financial services markets — Melbourne and Sydney mid-level roles typically A$110,000 to A$160,000 plus superannuation and short-term incentive. When comparing offers, value the Toronto cost-of-living context explicitly, the share purchase plan and equity participation for senior roles, the comprehensive health and retirement benefits, and the difference in geographic living costs between Toronto, Hopewell, Jacksonville, Melbourne, and Auckland rather than focusing only on base salary.
Does Element Fleet Management sponsor work permits?
Selectively. Element sponsors Canadian work permits for hard-to-fill senior fleet consulting, strategic account management, EV transition services, data and analytics, and corporate leadership roles, but it does not sponsor for the bulk of customer service, operations, fleet analyst, or field sales openings. Express Entry for permanent-residency-eligible candidates is a viable parallel path for long-term Canadian placement. For US roles, H-1B sponsorship is similarly selective, focused on senior and specialized positions; green card sponsorship follows for retained employees on a case-by-case basis. For Custom Fleet Australia, subclass 482 Temporary Skill Shortage visa sponsorship applies for senior and specialized roles, with subclass 186 Employer Nomination Scheme paths for retained employees. State your authorization status explicitly in your cover letter to prevent screening delays.
What intern and graduate programs does Element run, and which universities does it recruit from?
Element runs structured Canadian and US university intern and graduate programs in fleet consulting, strategic account management, operations, finance, and IT. The Canadian pipeline draws strongly from the Greater Toronto Area universities — the Rotman School at the University of Toronto, the Ivey Business School at Western University, the Schulich School of Business at York University, the Smith School of Business at Queen's University, and the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University for business roles, and the University of Waterloo, the University of Toronto, and the University of British Columbia for data and technology roles. In the US, the pipeline runs through regional schools proximate to Hopewell NJ and Jacksonville FL as well as major commerce programs. For Custom Fleet Australia and New Zealand, the pipeline runs through Monash University, the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Auckland for business and finance roles. Element's graduate programs rotate new hires through two or three functional assignments in the first two years and feed into specialist and management tracks.
How does Element compare to Holman, Enterprise Fleet Management, Wheels, and Ayvens as a fleet management employer?
Element is the only publicly-traded pure-play fleet management company in the global peer set, which shapes the operating tempo and the hiring profile. Holman Enterprises is privately held out of Mt. Laurel New Jersey — similar global scale, different disclosure discipline, family-ownership operating culture, genuinely strong industry reputation. Enterprise Fleet Management is a division of privately held Enterprise Holdings out of St. Louis, strong in the mid-market commercial fleet segment with tight integration to the parent rental business, and operationally recognizable as an Enterprise business. Wheels, now consolidated under Apollo and Athene Holdings private equity ownership after the 2022 acquisition and subsequent merger activity with Donlen and the North American LeasePlan business, has gone through material operational change and is positioning itself as a scale consolidator in the North American market. Ayvens, the BNP Paribas-owned combination of ALD Automotive and LeasePlan, is the dominant European and global private-leasing fleet franchise but operates with a bank-owned governance model. Candidates evaluating across the peer set should test the governance fit honestly: Element suits candidates who value publicly-traded discipline and strategic clarity; Holman suits candidates who value private family ownership and a specific Mt. Laurel cultural lineage; Enterprise Fleet suits candidates who value the broader Enterprise Holdings ecosystem; Wheels suits candidates who can thrive in a private-equity-owned scaling environment; Ayvens suits candidates who want a bank-backed global European-led operation.
What is the EV transition career track at Element, and how real is the opportunity?
Element has positioned corporate fleet electrification as a strategic growth priority, and the EV transition services practice is one of the most visible areas of the business. The work is genuinely consultative: Element's EV transition consultants stand in front of Fortune 500 fleet directors, transportation vice presidents, and CFOs to run multi-year electrification business cases that cover charging infrastructure capital deployment, utility rate structure optimization, driver training and change management, grant and incentive navigation (US federal Inflation Reduction Act provisions, state-level utility EV programs, Canadian provincial programs, Australian state EV procurement incentives), and the operational realities of running a mixed fleet through a multi-year transition. For candidates with backgrounds in EV infrastructure, energy consulting, utility economics, or enterprise sustainability, the EV transition practice at Element is one of the few places in North American fleet management where the work is genuinely at the frontier rather than a marketing layer. Roles include EV transition consultants (customer-facing), engineering and infrastructure specialists (charging deployment), analysts (business case modelling), and strategic account leaders specializing in the electrification transition. The opportunity is real because Element's Fortune 500 customers are genuinely beginning to electrify at scale, and Element is positioning itself as the consultative partner of choice for that transition.
What is the Custom Fleet Australia and New Zealand career angle, and how does it differ from working at Element North America?
Custom Fleet is the former GE Capital fleet management business in Australia and New Zealand, acquired by Element in 2021 for approximately A$520 million and now fully integrated into the Element Fleet Management group under the Element Advantage platform. The Custom Fleet brand is retained locally for customer-facing purposes, but employees are part of Element Fleet Management globally. The career angle is genuinely different from working at Element North America: the work centres on the Australasian commercial fleet market with its distinctive novated lease structures (employee-arranged leases with employer FBT treatment), fleet management panels (Australian government and large corporate procurement frameworks that Custom Fleet competes on), and a regulatory environment shaped by ASIC, APRA, and the Australian Privacy Principles. The day-to-day language is English. The customer base includes large Australian and New Zealand corporates, Australian state and federal government fleets, and multinationals operating in Australasia. The link to the Toronto parent shows up in capital allocation, strategic direction, executive reporting lines, Element Advantage platform investments, and the EV transition playbook, but the operational experience for most Custom Fleet employees is an Australasian fleet management company that is part of a Canadian-headquartered global group. For candidates with an existing Australian or New Zealand career base, Custom Fleet is the leading fleet management employer in the region alongside SG Fleet and McMillan Shakespeare.
What does the Laura Dottori-Attanasio era at Element mean strategically for candidates?
Laura Dottori-Attanasio was appointed President and CEO of Element Fleet Management in August 2023, succeeding Jay Forbes who had led the company through its multi-year transformation from the complex pre-2017 period into the simplified, focused pure-play fleet management business of today. Dottori-Attanasio brings a long track record as a senior executive at CIBC, including as Chief Risk Officer, and has set a strategic direction characterized by disciplined organic growth in the core North American fleet business, full realization of the Custom Fleet Australian and New Zealand integration, continued investment in the Element Advantage proprietary client platform, and a leadership position in corporate fleet electrification. Strong 2023 and 2024 financial performance has reinforced the strategic posture. For candidates the relevant takeaway is that the North American core business is being run with capital discipline rather than restructuring urgency, that Custom Fleet Australia and New Zealand are treated as a long-horizon growth franchise, that the Element Advantage platform and EV transition services are genuine strategic priorities with real hiring demand, and that the Toronto Bay Street head office is the stable strategic centre. Candidates should verify current executive team composition on elementfleet.com before any interview, since the Executive Leadership Team evolves, but Dottori-Attanasio's direction and the deliberate operating tempo are stable features of the institution.
What credentials does Element expect for fleet management, fleet consulting, and strategic account roles?
The NAFA Fleet Management Association Certified Automotive Fleet Manager (CAFM) designation is the clearest North American fleet management credential and an unambiguous positive signal for fleet consulting, strategic account management, operations, and related roles. The Certified Automotive Fleet Specialist (CAFS), also from NAFA, signals active progress toward the CAFM and is a reasonable mid-career milestone. For strategic account and enterprise sales roles, a track record managing Fortune 500 fleet customers matters more than any specific certification. For Australian and New Zealand roles, the Australasian Fleet Management Association (AfMA) provides industry development programs that are recognized locally. For finance and analytics roles, CPA, CFA, or equivalent credentials are recognized in the normal way. For technology roles, standard cloud, data, and software engineering credentials (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, major SaaS platforms) apply. Element supports continuing professional development and exam fee reimbursement for active credentialing tracks, and internal mobility for mid-career employees who invest in deepening their fleet industry credentials.
Where is Element Fleet Management headquartered, and which office should I target?
Element's global headquarters is at 161 Bay Street in the Brookfield Place complex in downtown Toronto, Ontario. This is the corporate centre and the location of most senior finance, strategy, executive, corporate, and select technology roles. The US operational centre is in Hopewell, New Jersey, inherited through the 2015 acquisition of GE Fleet Services and retained as the heart of the US operations — large customer service, operations, strategic account, and technology footprints sit in Hopewell. Jacksonville, Florida supports US operations in a complementary role. Mississauga supports Canadian operations alongside the Toronto head office. Mexico City operates the Mexican business. Custom Fleet Australia operates from Melbourne and Sydney, and Custom Fleet New Zealand from Auckland, serving the Australasian market. For Canadian corporate, strategy, and finance careers, target Toronto. For US operational and customer-facing careers, target Hopewell or Jacksonville. For field sales and strategic account management, target the major metros where the customer base concentrates (New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, Toronto, Vancouver). For Australasian careers, target Melbourne, Sydney, or Auckland through the Custom Fleet brand.
What is the long-term career arc inside Element, and how internally mobile is the institution?
Element has invested deliberately in internal mobility and structured career progression, and the default career model across fleet consulting, strategic accounts, operations, IT, finance, and corporate is to enter through a defined entry-level or mid-career role, rotate through two or three adjacent assignments in the first five to seven years, and progress through specialist and management tracks inside a single business unit before potentially moving across business units at the senior manager or director level. Multi-year tenures are common across the strategic account and fleet consulting organization, and long-tenured operational employees at the Hopewell NJ centre anchor institutional knowledge of the US business. For candidates this implies that the long-arc bet is credible: candidates who join Element and engage seriously with the fleet management franchise, the Element Advantage platform, and the EV transition opportunity can build a complete career inside the institution without needing to leave for advancement. This is a feature for candidates who value stability and a coherent long-horizon career inside a durable publicly-traded commercial services business, and a mismatch for candidates who want frequent external moves or rapid title progression in a high-velocity consumer technology environment.

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