Inventory Analyst
Coventry (West Midlands) Sales
Job description
POSTING END DATE: 02/09/2016
ADVERTISED SALARY: £30,000 - £40,000
An ever-evolving heritage. A truly exciting future. Two of the world’s most iconic brands. Jaguar Land Rover is revered across the globe. Continually pushing the boundaries of innovation and redefining the benchmark for excellence, we set the standards others want to follow. We want to keep it that way too. Which is where you join the journey.
LOCATION: Coventry, West Midlands
Jaguar and Land Rover are two of the world’s most iconic luxury brands. Every day we are reaching more customers, and our network of well over 2,000 dealerships continues to expand around the world. As our global marketplace extends further, we need to provide more customers than ever before with an unrivalled experience. You’ll see that we do.
Our Marketing, Sales and Service (MS&S) teams are responsible for all customer-facing activities, from developing and maintaining the dealer network, to managing importers and export partners. Their responsibilities continue through to global sales planning and supply of vehicles to markets, the sales process to customers, and all global customer service and aftersales activities.
WHAT TO EXPECT
This role sits within our Parts Operation at our Whitley site. As Inventory Planning Analyst, you will be part of our Inventory Management team, focussing on the overall management of the JLR owned inventory. Some of the processes and services associated with supply chain, warehousing, distribution, sales, customer service and accounting are delivered by third party logistics providers. You’ll work closely with those businesses, build strong relationships, support key projects to achieve a high level of customer service and meet KPIs/SLA financial objectives and targets.
Your key responsibilities will be to utilise the forecasting and replenishment system to optimise the inventory. You’ll maintain optimal stock levels to ensure timely availability of parts and accessories, managing and preventing of excess and obsolete stock. You’ll also ensure we continue to retain and improve our service levels.
We will expect you to demonstrate how we can develop our inventory classification on product ranges and assigned appropriate and relevant inventory stocking strategy, taking into consideration issues such as supplier capabilities and delivery performance as well as product demands and product value.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
We are looking for strong analytical and statistical skills, with the ability to construct, manipulate and interpret complex data, and to make prescriptive recommendations on this analysis. You’ll have strong MS Excel skills, and be experienced in inventory classification, inventory forecasting, stock level strategies, planning and safety stock planning. We use SAP as our inventory system, therefore experience of this system or similar would certainly be required. We are looking for a ‘can do’ attitude, and you should not afraid of asking about inventory simulations scenarios.
BENEFITS
Bring all this to the home of premium innovation, and you’ll find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team, a discounted car purchase and lease scheme for you and your family, membership of a competitive pension plan and a performance-related bonus scheme. All this and more makes Jaguar Land Rover the perfect place to continue your journey.
Jaguar Land Rover is committed to equal opportunity for all.
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