Regional Planning Administrator - Leicester
Bardon, GB, LE67 1LD
Regional Planning Administrator - Leicester
Salary up to £27,500 p.a. - dependent upon your skill set and experience
Working Monday to Friday 0800hrs to 1600hrs (1/2 hr unpaid lunch)
We are looking for a dedicated and organized Regional Planning Administrator to join our regional planning team at Volvo Trucks based in Bardon, Leicester. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the regional planning processes, ensuring the smooth coordination of planning activities, and providing administrative assistance to the team. This is a key role that will require strong communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
Who are you
If you are a motivated individual with a passion for logistics and planning, we would love to hear from you. Join us in shaping the future of transport!
You will require:
- Customer service skills with ability to liaise and communicate to customers
- Strong background in administration or customer focused role
- Ability to work either part of a team or on own building a strong rapport with clients and colleagues
- Excellent time management and organisation skills
- Good level of IT
- Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise tasks
- Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- A proactive, can do attitude with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
What will you be doing
As a Regional Planning Administrator, you will liaise with our customers first hand, assisting with the planning of maintenance and repairs. Working closely with our Workshop team providing them with relevant and accurate information, ensuring the customers’ expectations are always managed.
- Key customer contact and point of reference
- Working with the workshop management team, ensure workshop scheduling and loading to maximise available capacity and utilisation
- Clarify for the customer and the workshop the basis for the repair – Retail/Warranty/Contract
- Gain customer agreement through selling the benefits of identified repair solutions in a professional manner
- Produce sand explain repair order to customer during planning stage
- Maintain customer contact information in workshop planner, CM and VDA
- Ensure planning and communication that ensure all resources are available in advance of scheduled work (labour and parts).
- Manage bookings for courtesy cars, collection & Plan and manage all truck monitoring cases with customer, relevant dealer and RTM / SDM delivery and waiting. Ensure that all active campaigns are allocated to the repair order
- Manage all contractual and non contractual vehicle alerts and liaise with the customer(s) or dealer(s) accordingly.
- Ensure that all proposed work is correctly specified based on standard IMPACT content and converted to GDS quotes.
- Be able to convert GDS quotes into repair orders
- Ensure that all authorised work is properly coded on the repair order prior to handover to the workshop
- Be able to convert a quotation into a workshop repair order
What’s in it for you?
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays raising to 30 days with service
- Contributory Pension scheme
- Training and development opportunities
- Health Care Plan with access to dental insurance
- Extended maternity/paternity and adoption leave
- Referral bonus with our recommend a friend
- Cycle to work scheme
- Many benefits for yourself, family and friends including Theme days out, gym memberships, discounts with High St Retailers, travel, hotel, airport parking plus many more +++++
Ready for the next move?
• Are you excited to bring your skills and disruptive ideas to the table? We can’t wait to hear from you. Apply today!
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Who we are and what we believe in
Our focus on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity allows each of us the opportunity to bring our full authentic self to work and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment, free of harassment and discrimination. We are committed to removing the barriers to entry, which is why we ask that even if you feel you may not meet every qualification on the job description, please apply and let us decide.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities.
At Volvo Trucks you will be part of leading the way towards a sustainable transport industry. For nearly a century we have been innovating for people – to make life easier, better and safer. Driving progress is our promise to customers, to the industry and to society. At Volvo Trucks we share a curiosity to learn, we work with passion and we embrace change to stay ahead. Join us, together we move the world we want to live in.