Total 4 job vacancies by Tate

Planning & Pricing Manager - Parts

Competitive salary with excellent benefits, company car, fuel card, annual bonus, etc.
Location: Hybrid - (2 days per week working from home) 3 days in Head Office, based in Milton Keynes.

About the Company:
Founded over a century ago, our client is a global automotive brand with production facilities in over 20 countries, employing tens of thousands of talented individuals worldwide.

The Opportunity:
We have a unique opportunity to join this superb business as a Planning & Pricing Manager at their head office in Milton Keynes. You will analyse data from multiple sources and provide your expertise to enhance the way they plan and drive their aftersales business. This role involves driving performance improvements and developing parts and pricing strategies for over 100,000 products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and develop your team to support the business' parts sales goals.
• Analyse market trends, customer needs, competitor activity, and product lifecycles to inform commercial plans and decisions.
• Monitor parts business performance, identifying risks and opportunities, and proposing actions to achieve goals.
• Leverage data and insights to support accurate forecasting.
• Implement and embed an aftersales pricing strategy that delivers the required revenue and margin.
• Collaborate with finance team colleagues to review Aftersales financial planning and analysis processes.
• Drive innovation in parts planning by embracing new technologies, tools, and methodologies.
• Support the Parts Sales Coordinator in managing dealer parts targets and bonus programmes.
• Provide complex analysis on the effectiveness of commercial activities and make recommendations.
• Manage promotional, tactical, and special parts pricing activities ensuring a suitable margin.
• Review and manage supplier relationships to optimise ROI.
• Ensure collaboration with internal stakeholders to avoid duplication or fragmentation.
• Identify opportunities for new and improved parts and pricing initiatives, including trade parts programmes.
• Plan and manage relevant budgets to ensure ROI is maximised.

Skills and Experience Required:

Essential:

• Knowledge and experience of business planning (preferably parts), commercial management, or business insights within the automotive industry.
• Significant experience in pricing and margin-based activities.
• Proven track record of driving revenue growth in a competitive market environment.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen.
• Planning and analytical skills, with the ability to turn insights into actions.
• Experience engaging and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Meticulous attention to detail and the ability to identify anomalies in data.
• A strategic thinker with a results-oriented mindset.
• Flexible approach, with the ability to deal with ambiguity and reprioritise when required.

Desirable:

• Knowledge and understanding of franchised dealer networks.
• People management experience.

If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for driving performance improvements and developing innovative parts and pricing strategies, we would love to hear from you!

Please be aware this advert will remain open until the vacancy has been filled. Interviews will take place throughout this period, therefore we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment.

Tate is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Tate is committed to promoting equal opportunities. To ensure that every candidate has the best experience with us, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments we can make during the application or interview process. Your comfort and accessibility are our priority, and we are here to support you every step of the way. Additionally, we value and respect your individuality, and we invite you to share your preferred pronouns in your application.

Parts Planning Manager

Salary: Up to £70,000 with excellent benefits, company car, fuel card, annual bonus, etc.
Location: Hybrid - (2 days per week working from home) 3 days in Head Office, based in Milton Keynes.

About the Company:
Founded over a century ago, our client is a global automotive brand with production facilities in over 20 countries, employing tens of thousands of talented individuals worldwide.

The Opportunity:
We have a unique opportunity to join this superb business as a Parts Planning Manager at their head office in Milton Keynes. You will analyse data from multiple sources and provide your expertise to enhance the way they plan and drive their aftersales business. This role involves driving performance improvements and developing parts and pricing strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and develop your team to support the business' parts sales goals.
• Analyse market trends, customer needs, competitor activity, and product lifecycles to inform commercial plans and decisions.
• Monitor parts business performance, identifying risks and opportunities, and proposing actions to achieve goals.
• Leverage data and insights to support accurate forecasting.
• Implement and embed an aftersales pricing strategy that delivers the required revenue and margin.
• Collaborate with finance team colleagues to review Aftersales financial planning and analysis processes.
• Drive innovation in parts planning by embracing new technologies, tools, and methodologies.
• Support the Parts Sales Coordinator in managing dealer parts targets and bonus programmes.
• Provide complex analysis on the effectiveness of commercial activities and make recommendations.
• Manage promotional, tactical, and special parts pricing activities ensuring a suitable margin.
• Review and manage supplier relationships to optimise ROI.
• Ensure collaboration with internal stakeholders to avoid duplication or fragmentation.
• Identify opportunities for new and improved parts and pricing initiatives, including trade parts programmes.
• Plan and manage relevant budgets to ensure ROI is maximised.

Skills and Experience Required:

Essential:

• Knowledge and experience of business planning (preferably parts), commercial management, or business insights within the automotive industry.
• Significant experience in pricing and margin-based activities.
• Proven track record of driving revenue growth in a competitive market environment.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen.
• Planning and analytical skills, with the ability to turn insights into actions.
• Experience engaging and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Meticulous attention to detail and the ability to identify anomalies in data.
• A strategic thinker with a results-oriented mindset.
• Flexible approach, with the ability to deal with ambiguity and reprioritise when required.

Desirable:

• Knowledge and understanding of franchised dealer networks.
• People management experience.

If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for driving performance improvements and developing innovative parts and pricing strategies, we would love to hear from you!

Please be aware this advert will remain open until the vacancy has been filled. Interviews will take place throughout this period, therefore we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment.

Tate is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Tate is committed to promoting equal opportunities. To ensure that every candidate has the best experience with us, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments we can make during the application or interview process. Your comfort and accessibility are our priority, and we are here to support you every step of the way. Additionally, we value and respect your individuality, and we invite you to share your preferred pronouns in your application.

Senior IT Project Manager

Milton Keynes, hybrid (3 days in the office, 2 from home)

Up to £75,000 with excellent benefits, including generous annual bonus, 8% pension contribution company car and fuel card, private medical insurance and much more!

12-18 month FTC (possibly longer)

Our client is a well-established and reputable global brand. They're looking for a highly skilled and seasoned Senior IT Project Manager to join them on a fixed term contract basis for 12-18 months, with a possible extension beyond that.

We're looking for someone with a wealth of experience in managing projects, demonstrating proficiency in overseeing multi-faceted intricate implementations, and ensuring the seamless integration within a global context.

Experience of managing SAP projects is advantageous, experience with agile and waterfall tools/methodology is essential.

As Senior IT Project Manager you will oversee the entire project lifecycle and you will be responsible for:

• Project leadership; strategic leadership with a focus on global template delivery.
• Managing communication with all internal teams and stakeholders.
• Leverage extensive experience to design and implement global templates.
• Drive standardisation and harmonisation across diverse business units, considering regional variations and compliance requirements.
• Stakeholder management; collaborate with cross functional teams and engage with senior stakeholders to understand business objectives, articulate goals and manage expectations.
• Risk Management.
• Quality Assurance.

What are we looking for?

• Formal education in a relevant field; advanced degree or certifications in project management.
• Significant demonstrable experience in project management, with a proven track record of successfully delivering client side projects.
• Experience in managing SAP projects would be an advantage, but is not essential.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for effective collaboration and engagement.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify issues, analyse data, and develop solutions.
• Proactive in anticipating potential problems and implementing pre-emptive measures.
• PMP or PRINCE2 certification is highly desirable.

Please be aware this advert will remain open until the vacancy has been filled. Interviews will take place throughout this period, therefore we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment.

Tate is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Tate is committed to promoting equal opportunities. To ensure that every candidate has the best experience with us, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments we can make during the application or interview process. Your comfort and accessibility are our priority, and we are here to support you every step of the way. Additionally, we value and respect your individuality, and we invite you to share your preferred pronouns in your application.

Senior Digital Project ManagerUp to £57,000 with excellent benefits, including company car. This role is hybrid (3 days in the Milton Keynes office).Do you have demonstrable Project Management experience within Digital transformation, client side? Do you want the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter digital solutions, and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions?Our client is on a journey; They're aiming to transform their business and build their future digital capabilities with the power to transform their digital customer experience. They are looking for someone to help them build the building blocks for the future. To ensure governance, consistency of business architecture and deliver solutions with internal and supplier resources.As a Senior Digital Project Manager, you will join their Digital Marketing Team, part of the wider Marketing team, fully responsible for an end-to-end process. This is a new element in a project management structure and is a fundament of scaling up Digital Services and Processes. As Senior Digital Project Manager, your responsibilities will include:Lead complex projects across a wide range of digital workstreamsLead day to day BAU tasksManage Project Roadmap and product backlogManage monthly budget, burn rate charts, and cost benefit analysisChange management and project governanceAs a Digital Delivery Manager, you are accountable for the solution or portfolio of solutions, drive digital innovation, adoption, mindset and acting as change management champion.Main point of contact for Business, IT, and other Stakeholders, to conceptualize and co-design the solution, or the portfolio of solutions, road mapEnsure Functional Requirements are included in the Solution delivery pipeline/backlog and are prioritized according to their criticalityManage, lead, and motivate the 3rd party project teamsService Expansion: Evaluate and operationalize new services coming to Digital CoE scope; discovery to implementation and monitoringRemove roadblocks, that Team is unable to resolve at their own level, to keep the delivery momentumOptimize the delivery flow and drive continuous improvementProvide input and support budget & vendor management activities We're looking for someone with the following skills and experience:Experience in Digital Transformation, Project ManagementExperience managing teams of developers and designersSCRUM/Agile - strong drive to develop and apply new way of workingExcellent Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills, with capability to process large amounts of complex data to drive business strategies and decisionsAppreciation of web standards, quality assurance principles, usability best practices, and web analytics driven decisionsDemonstrable experience with formal project management methodologies, including all forms of project documentationExperience with facilitating projects involving content management systems, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, .net and other web technologiesGood understanding of usability principles, accessibility, and overall web standardsSkilled in MS Office. Experience with Smartsheet, Basecamp, JIRA, Asana, Monday, and other business applications is desirableAbility to establish relationships in matrixed environmentUnderstanding of the current mobile environment (iOS, Android, responsive web, etc.) with some experience managing web or mobile software projectsExperience leading on the development and delivery of digital products and servicesUnderstanding of the required quality assurance standardsExperience facilitating sprint planning and daily stand-ups Please be aware this advert will remain open until the vacancy has been filled. Interviews will take place throughout this period, therefore we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment. Tate is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.Tate is committed to promoting equal opportunities. To ensure that every candidate has the best experience with us, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments we can make during the application or interview process. Your comfort and accessibility are our priority, and we are here to support you every step of the way. Additionally, we value and respect your individuality, and we invite you to share your preferred pronouns in your application.