Planning Analyst

About the role

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match. We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities. Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment. Trucks Technology & Industrial Division hire team players who are ready to create real customer impact. Our decentralized teams work close to our customers, with speed and autonomy, to build what they truly need. Join us to collaborate on innovative, sustainable technologies that redefine how we design, build, and deliver value. Bring your curiosity, your expertise, and your collaborative energy, and together, we’ll turn bold ideas into tangible solutions for our customers and contribute to a more sustainable tomorrow.

Responsibilities

• Responsible to continuously follow and act on the different alarms from GILM (daily)
• Responsible to investigate availability of spare parts, part substitution with engineering and support from other plants, to avoid line impact for the concerned part number(s)
• The material planner will support other plants on request in shortage situations (ad hoc)
• Notify the scheduling department of potential material shortages that would affect the production schedule (ad hoc)
• Inform/escalate deviations and risk for disturbances to responsible Supervisor (ad hoc)
• Escalate crisis or risk suppliers according to the escalation ladder (GCR Global Risk Crisis) (ad hoc)
• Responsible to act towards supplier based on information from Material Handling Production/IMC and offsite sequencing facilities in case of inventory inaccuracies (daily)
• Responsible to act towards supplier based on input from the Supplier quality Plant Engineer to replenish bad material (daily)
• Responsible to communicate with DCN Coordinator on delivery of phase-in/phase-out parts (meeting usually set up by buyer or SRM) (monthly)
• Authority to decide on XTR (Extra transportation request) to a certain dollar figure, securing correct XTR information (daily)
• Responsible to inform packaging engineering in case of deviations between MOQ and agreed packaging quantity and update necessary systems i.e GILM (ad hoc)
• Responsible to communicate with PL Transport Operations to check ETA’s, to notify about carrier issues (daily)
• Work on a daily basis with the supplier through Teams calls to secure correct SDP and to request the supplier for root cause analysis and actions when the target score of SDP is not met (weekly)
• Work in a pro-active mode with the suppliers by asking questions related to the logistic requirements & delivery manual. Issues can be further escalated internally when needed (daily)
• Responsible for working with AP to resolve supplier payment issues (weekly)
• Responsible to perform RCA on request in case of production disturbance, impacting the MA@PU (weekly