Sales Planning Support Manager - Milton Keynes in Stratford-upon-Avon

The Product Planning team in Volkswagen Passenger Cars are recruiting for a Sales Planning Support Manager on a permanent full time basis.

What you could be doing:

• Reporting into the Sales Planning Manager you will be responsible for supporting the wider Sales and Supply Planning team with insight and analysis required to manage the brands car flow to achieve required sales targets by model and channel.
• There is significant emphasis placed on the optimisation of our sales channel (Retail, Fleet, etc.) strategy to ensure financial efficiency, as well as the impact of new model market introduction (MI) within a large and complex product range.
• You will be integral in providing commercial insight and risk/opportunity identification in the Brand, as well as monitoring trends and performing a key role in the annual 5 year long-term planning round.

Skills & experience you can bring to the role:

• Advanced Excel and/or reporting tool (BI) knowledge.
• The ability to identify risks and opportunities and plans to address both.
• Excellent analytical skills with a logical and methodical approach.
• Proven experience of applying commercial acumen and market insight to management information.
• Used to working and delivering in a high pressured environment.
• The ability to deliver commercially relevant analysis, reporting and insight.

What can we offer you?

Along with a competitive salary, car schemes (including cars for family members), discretionary bonus, enhanced pension contributions, healthcare cash plan, 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 Passenger Cars is focused on continuing to build our much loved brand. You’ll be part of a great team, bringing to market the most popular, and loved cars. You’ll have your own responsibilities where you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact on the future of electric mobility.

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.

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.