Caroline Gallagher Email Address

Sales Director Thrifty Car and Van Rental

Thrifty Car & Van Rental is an automotive company that provides car and van leasing.

30 years experience in the car and commercial vehicle daily rental field with extensive man management and sales expertise. Specialties: Board level negotiation and new business sales, change management, man management, supplier management. Member of The Two Percent Club. Having started with Avis Rent a Car back in the 80s I was hooked into the Rental world and it's fast moving pace. I've worked for both end user rental companies and also ran the rental division of leasing companies where I've been both supplier manager and sales manager at the same time with responsibility for buying in rental from a panel of suppliers and selling out to the leasing company customers. I've been at Thrifty for over 15 years now - and what a transformation I've seen - we were bought out by Scot Group in 2006 and our Corporate business has increased from £9.5M to over £100M Thrifty is privately owned and well funded. A completely UK based company, we run Cars, Vans , Prestige and 4x4 and are completely service driven - we win numerous accolades from our existing customer base for our exceptional service. My job role is unique in this industry - my direct reports include the sales team, reservations department, invoicing department and we also handle the queries - so booking to billing - it makes the service seamless.