David Blomfield

My tenure at Toyota Fleet Management has seen me based in Melbourne for the entire 22+ years. The FSM role has three fundamental objectives being;

• Identifying and winning new corporate business customers.
• Managing and developing a customer relationship team to support those customers.
• Meeting or exceeding defined sales targets.

I was initially employed to understand the introduction of GST in Australia and the impact it might have on the novated leasing industry.

At the completion of that project, I was invited to remain with NLC as a Consultant.

Over time, I proved to be very successful in delivering consistent results and was considered suitable for promotion as a Team Supervisor to oversee growth in the expanding business.

Whilst I thoroughly enjoyed my developing role, I was enticed to join Toyota Financial Services which was to eventually become Toyota Fleet Management.

Primarily responsible for delivering payroll and benefits to an employee base of 500 people within the stock broking industry.

Outside of PAYE, the industry encourage a broad range of fringe benefits such as novated leases and other non-cash benefits.

In 1999, the ANZ bank chose to divest itself of the stock broking business and I was retained until the company closed its doors and all personnel had been appropriately paid out.

Through my tenure here, I had developed a good relationship with the principals of Novated Leasing Company (NLC) which lead to my next career opportunity.