Supply Executive in Milton Keynes

About The Role

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles are recruiting for a Supply Executive on a full-time permanent basis. Reporting into the Supply Planning Manager, you will take ownership of the complete order to delivery process for all vehicles for the UK Market and will be responsible for reporting for the customer and brand. You’ll be planning the production of the nation’s orders, maintaining the order bank, releasing vehicles for shipping and trucking and providing forecast updates and coordination of management information for reporting requirements with key stakeholders.

Skills & experience you can bring to the role:

• Excellent communication skills and ability to perform in a team environment
• Strong organisation and proactivity, to ensure continuous improvement.
• High attention to detail and accuracy with strong numerical and analytical skills.
• Confident using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Typical week in the role:

Along with day-to-day activities such as retailer and field team interactions and query handling, team huddles and lunch time Brand or team walks, a typical week as a Supply Executive could look something like this:

• Monday: Review the vehicle pipeline to identify any bottlenecks or isolated delays, escalating with the relevant stakeholders. Weekly Planning and Supply team meeting. Close any final gaps in production filling.
• Tuesday: Analyse inbound and existing UK port volume to forecast transport orders for onward movement of vehicles to Van Centres and represent the Brand in weekly logistics call. Update the weekly production and supply bulletin to ensure Van Centres are fully up to date on the latest happenings. Manager one-to-one followed by personal development time (for example networking meeting, mentorship session, development course etc).
• Wednesday: Review shipping plan vs. expected volumes – highlight risks and opportunities to relevant stakeholders within Brand, and accelerate any concerns. Long‑term transport order plan review, considering latest production plan, confirmed build volume, channel and model mix etc. Represent Supply Planning team in weekly Product Meeting, ensuring alignment on key areas, reporting on status of production filling and flagging any issues preventing production on vehicles.
• Thursday: Brand/department offsite day – business meeting followed by team building activities.
• Friday: Leading the factory production filling call for the UK team, ensuring production scheduling over the weekend runs as smoothly as possible. Raise transport orders to close potential gaps to previously forecasted volume for the week. Review inbound query tracker for the week and report back on key highlights, identifying any areas for potential improvements.

What can we offer you?

Along with a competitive salary, car schemes (including cars for family members), discretionary bonus, enhanced pension contributions, healthcare cashplan, 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, 4 x life assurance & health & wellbeing support, we also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit you and your lifestyle.

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles

Over 70 years ago, the first Transporter arrived in the UK, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has been delivering for organisations ever since, no matter how big or small. Today, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles offers a diverse model range of commercial as well as passenger carrying and lifestyle models – from sturdy Crafter panel vans, dropsides and tippers, through the California campervans, to the Multivan and ID. Buzz passenger carriers. We’re proud of a heritage built on adventure, with a strong family feel and team spirit in all we achieve, making each and every person feel a valued member of the brand.

About Us Volkswagen Group

We’re driven by difference. With six big brands under one roof – each with its own history, designs and innovations – we’ve created some of the world’s most iconic vehicles, from luxury sports cars to family camper vans. Here, you’ll discover opportunities, explore ideas and tackle challenges that you won’t find anywhere else. It takes a range of teams to make the Group successful. We all share the same aim: to deliver sustainable mobility for generations to come, while keeping the customer and their changing demands at the heart of everything we do. There’s never been a more exciting time to join our industry as it undergoes the biggest transformation for over 100 years. With digitalisation, electrification and driverless mobility all coming to the market, we’re actively looking for people with new skills, knowledge, and outlooks. A brave new world demands brave, new, diverse people; so whatever your background, we would love to hear from you.

We know that different perspectives and thought processes are vital as our industry goes through an exciting period of change. To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage the application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.