Material Flow Analyst

Job description

POSTING END DATE: 09/08/2018

ADVERTISED SALARY: £37,819 - £45,000

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: Solihull
WHAT TO EXPECT

Our commitment to sourcing only the highest quality products for our vehicles has taken us all over the world. Join us, and it will be you coordinating a supplier base of thousands, ensuring the right part arrives at our plants at precisely the right time.

Every minute of every day, thousands of parts and materials from all over the world are shipped and delivered to our plants, ready to be utilised on our production lines within hours. At the same time, hundreds of customers from across the globe are handed the keys to their newly transported vehicles. A feat like this doesn’t just happen. Behind this momentous undertaking are our Material Planning & Logistics (MP&L) team, coordinating on a massive scale to ensure our vehicles continue to roll smoothly off the production lines and into the hands of the customers awaiting them.

As our Material Flow Analyst you’ll contribute to the coordination, development and execution of the Material Planning and Logistics strategy for the UK Plant Group, to help support local vehicle plant operations strive for excellence. 

You’ll develop clear business cases on the reasons for change, engaging with the vehicle plants in common working practices, standardising practices and coordinating information for cross plant forums to reduce non-value activity. Supporting project management activities with clear reporting, definition of next steps and co-ordination of project timelines and contributing to the robust programme coordination, delivery and execution for Material Flow planning. 

In addition you’ll be supporting the execution of program change and ensuring standardisation in methods and processes by understanding and communicating key performance indicators; benchmarking through Value Stream Mapping and ensuring the alignment of standards and operational needs.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

You’ll have solid experience and a background in process design or logistics planning and design, ideally with an understanding of Value Stream Mapping principles, and able to plot out processes and measure performance against it; as well as previous involvement in change management, project management and process improvement. 

You’re a continuous improvement champion, target driven but with a customer-first mindset. You’re confident to challenge, whilst building trust and credibility with your stakeholders; personable, and actively working to support and develop your team members. With your analytical skills and statistical abilities, you’re confident with large data sets, pulling data together, manipulating it into various software and presenting it back out to key stakeholders.

Finally, you’ll have a flexible approach to work, as you’ll be expected to be out in the business, travelling to various sites and therefore you’ll need a full UK/European driving licence.

Jaguar Land Rover considers that this role does not meet the criteria to be considered within the Home Office Shortage Occupation list. Therefore, Jaguar Land Rover will not support an application for visa sponsorship and all applicants for this role must have an unrestricted right to work for an indefinite period in the UK.

BENEFITS

Bring all this to the home of premium innovation, and you will find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team. Our employees have access to a privilege car purchase scheme, membership of a competitive pension plan, performance related bonus scheme and 26 days holiday entitlement. 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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