(Senior) Specialist Demand Planning & Inventory Control

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Company Information

TOYOTA is one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers and a leading global corporation. Founded in 1937, Toyota now sells vehicles in 170 countries and employs over 300.000 people. As a company, Toyota Motor Europe focuses on sustainability and future generations and strongly promotes diversity, inclusion and gender equality. We are highly interested in receiving the applications from professionals of all backgrounds and genders looking to build their career in either scientific, engineering or corporate positions.

Based in Brussels, Belgium, and staffed by 2.700 people and more than 60 nationalities, Toyota Motor Europe (TME) handles the wholesale marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts & accessories, and manages Toyota’s European R&D, manufacturing and engineering operations.

For Toyota, Quality is a way of life. Nothing is so good that it cannot be made better, that is why we strive for continuous improvement in everything we do. This basic principle for us is called: “KAIZEN” and is what guides us in our pursuit of best Quality and the delivery of unparalleled customer’s satisfaction.

We are excited to be transforming into a mobility company focusing on bringing even more happiness to our customers through various mobility solutions.

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We offer a dynamic multicultural work environment and the opportunity to be part of a highly motivated team where collaboration, creativity, courage, and curiosity play an important role. You will be working on exciting projects and benefit from a thorough on the job development, coaching and training.

Your commitment will be rewarded with a comprehensive renumeration package, including a bonus scheme and interesting extra-legal benefits. We provide flexibility to take care of both your career and your personal life by providing hybrid work environment with structural possibility to both work from home & collaborate in the office. You can also take your work abroad for up to 20 days/year.

At Toyota Motor Europe, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all. All of our recruitment decisions are based on the individual and their qualifications along with the job requirements. The selection process is without regard to nationality, gender, age, ethnicity or disability. We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination as our individual experiences and overall diversity is our key strength. Together we have the power to make a positive change and go beyond the ordinary.

If you need any specific consideration for the interview process due to disability or any other reason, please let the recruiter know.

Your Profile

Your profile:

• Outgoing proactive personality with excellent project management & teamwork skills with customer mindset
• Master or Bachelor in logistics, procurement or related discipline such as commercial / economical engineering is a must
• Problem solver with hands on mentality
• Genuinely interested in the automotive industry & supply chain management
• Attention to detail and enjoys working in an active supply environment
• Excellent knowledge on Power BI reporting, Office 365 applications (Excel & Access)
• 5 to 10 years of experience in inventory management and demand planning is an asset
• Fluent in English as business language is necessary

You have a Toyota DNA, this means you:

• Courage: you are ready to let go of the easy path to reach challenging targets
• Collaboration: you are a team player, respectful and inclusive in your style and you take a customer-oriented approach
• Creativity: your passion drives you to explore innovative ideas and challenge the impossible
• Curiosity: you combine imagination and fact-based observation
• Coaching: you share knowledge and feedback with your colleagues and celebrate each other’s success

Your team and your responsibilities

Group description:

Located just outside Brussels is our European Distribution Centre in Diest called Toyota Parts Centre Europe (TPCE) employing 930 people. It is responsible for the procurement, storage and logistics supply of a dedicated range of Toyota/Lexus spare parts, accessories and technical campaign parts supporting both the new car sales and existing customer vehicles service and warranty needs.

The Diest facility itself receives parts from over 700 different suppliers (from Japan to local suppliers) managing over 250,000 part numbers and >150 trucks per day in a dedicated 100,000m2 facility. It’s 2 outbound logistics roles covers; providing direct overnight supply to >600 Toyota dealers in local region and supporting the 13 European Regional Distribution Centres to ensure a consistent high level of Just-In-Time service to all National Marketing & Sales Companies (NMSC’s) and Toyota dealers within Europe and our final customers beyond.

Your challenge:

• Appropriate sales forecasting process and accuracy ensuring on time availability considering end customer demand (regular & irregular)
• Project management on various demand planning & inventory control improvement activities leading to lean inventory and forecast accuracy improvement (Kaizen mindset)
• Problem solving with Toyota external and TME internal related divisions on stock & forecast abnormalities respecting the Toyota Way.
• Various process mapping & kaizen activities in view of a major new logistics software roll out
• Ensure appropriate inventory of parts/accessories In TPCE main warehouse and the regional depots through proper parameters & policies to allow most effective supply to our Parts Supply Chain Group (PSCG) customers in a cost-efficient manner.
• KPI follow-up and analysis resulting is action plans to close any potential gap to meet the targets