SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:
Based in Sandton you will play a critical role in supporting efforts of regionalisation of volume planning topics between the Group Africa region and Head Quarters in Europe.
Responsibilities
- Effectively communicating HQ requests/queries to the Africa region’ volume planning team and vice versa.
- Preparing for the semi-annual planning discussions and evaluating production development, production premises, restrictions, start-up and run-off curves, storage situation, storage factors.
- Processing the results of the planning discussions (overall market, deliveries to customers, warehouse, personalization, launch planning, production applications, EWC planning)
- Co-ordinating the weekly/monthly production planning with VI-1 and the importer as well as ensuring that the weekly program is filled.
- Enforcing and pursuing the negotiated objectives, monitoring, and controlling the EWC planning as well as proposing and, if necessary, enforcing countermeasures in the event of deviations from the EWC planning
- Monitoring and coordinating incoming orders and order inventory, considering the importer's production wishes and the group's production capabilities.
- System-side ensuring that vehicles can be built in accordance with the country sales program.
- Tracking vehicles in the production, logistics and transport process
- Knowledge and application of the ATLAS, IFA, HIFA, TAF, PISA, PIANO, FPL, IMF, EPL
- Tracking vehicles in the production, logistics and transport process
- Participation in the planning of functional and market launch vehicles as well as tracking of the production scheduling
- Monitoring and tracking of factory de-stocking
Qualification requirements
A formal 3-year National diploma or bachelor’s degree from a recognized institution in Commerce/ Business Science/ Logistics
Experience needed
Have a minimum of 3 years motor industry experience, ideally within the following fields: Volume Planning, Dealer Sales, Product Marketing or Finance
Essentials
- Analytical skills: ability to analyze sales data, market trends to develop an accurate sales forecast and identify patterns and trends.
- Data Management: Competency in data management tools (e.g, Excel and Power BI) to organize, manipulate and analyze large datasets efficiently.
- Attention to Detail: keen attention to detail to ensure accuracy in data analysis, reporting, and forecasting, minimizing errors and discrepancies in volume planning processes.
- Sound Communication Skills
- Sound Problem-solving abilities
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