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REQ ID: 115386
JOB TITLE: Supply Chain Tower Planner
SALARY: Competitive
POSTING END DATE: 12/05/23
LOCATION: Gaydon

Beyond Property, Purchasing, HR and IT, more than being part of our Finance or Marketing teams, beyond even Sales and Service, every role in every business area offers unique opportunities to make an impact on the future of mobility and the automotive industry.

WHAT TO EXPECT

A new and exciting opportunity has been created within the Supply Chain Material Fulfilment team. As a Supply Chain Tower Planner, you will play a key role as Supply Chain Tower Co-Ordinator responsible for overall project planning and governance of the Supply Chain Control Tower. You will work closely with the Tower Manager and squad teams to ensure seamless reporting to executives of critical part supply issues and act a central point of co-ordination for Material Fulfilment.

This role will provide a great platform for personal development with great opportunities to work across the enterprise at senior level and influence critical business decisions.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

Essential:

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  Previous experience of working in a Project Support role within a large company
• Demonstrates experience of process improvement and working in a project support role.
• Good understanding of project management principles
• Proficient communication and organisational skills
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Extensive experience of working with cross functional teams
• Degree or relevant equivalent experience preferred.
• Good MS Office suite: Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• An effective team player, actively leads, develops and supports team members.
• An individual who is resilient, energetic and enthusiastic, able to deliver results under pressure, whilst responding constructively to challenging new ideas and inputs.
• An individual with the ability to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with longer term planning.

Desirable:

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  Experience of working in a manufacturing or automotive environment.
• Experience of metric and reporting delivery to support programme delivery.
• An individual who enables speed in decision making through establishing alignment, clarity, appropriate resources and sense of urgency whilst bringing others along.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

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  Plan overall governance of Supply Chain Tower to ensure seamless reporting to Executives. Managing meeting agenda, invites, pack creation, robust action closure and metrics.
• Assistance with quarterly Material Fulfilment Village Hall events, generation of themes, agenda, buy-off from Senior Management.
• Coordinate development of operational processes for Material Fulfilment ensuring they are recorded and held in the Jaguar Land Rover Way.
• Encourage knowledge transfer and lessons learnt across the Material Fulfilment area.
• Drive adherence to compliance of Regulatory, Corporate or Process through the introduction of a range of relevant methodologies, tracking and reporting of these metrics and manage the on-going development.
• Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested.

SO WHY US?

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 performance related bonus scheme. All this and more makes Jaguar Land Rover the perfect place to continue your journey.

This role may offer the opportunity for hybrid working where you can split your time between working from home and in the office. At Jaguar Land Rover, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees with more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work, if suitable for their role. Further details can be discussed with the Hiring Manager at interview stage.

Please be aware that we may close this vacancy for applications before the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of interest. We strongly advise you to submit your application as early as possible.

Jaguar Land Rover is committed to equal opportunity for all.