Porsche Cars Canada, Ltd. Looking for Vehicle Personalization and Reporting Specialist at Toronto, Ontario, Canada Full Time

Position Objective

As the Vehicle Personalization and Planning Specialist, you will support in volume planning tasks for both, short- and long-range planning, prepare sales performance reports for internal and external stakeholders, as well as, handle all vehicle order and option related dealer and Porsche AG requests, while ensuring that order deadlines are met.

Primary Responsibilities

Volume Planning

• Support the Manager, Sales Operations and Volume Planning in all planning related tasks. This includes short- and long-range planning for new vehicles along the supply chain, from Order Intake, Production, Purchases, Wholesale to Retail and all stock related measures.
• Support product planning with option take rates analysis and manage option target achievement, incl. regular reporting and definition of measures, assists in determining option budgets and monitoring/reporting on performance.

Reporting

• System Owner for Porsche Dealer Sales Reporting Online System, DeltaMaster Desktop Virtual built to order (VBtO). Responsible for maintenance, enhancements (together with PAG and Service provider if necessary) and training (including internal and Dealer training).
• Support Manager, Sales Operations and Volume Planning with allocation and production planning reports, analysis and presentations
• Submit 4-eye reviewed Performance Margin and Premier Dealer Reporting to Retail Development in appropriate format by submission deadline.
• Maintaining, verifying and publishing Internal and Dealer individual reports.

Vehicle Personalization

• Support Dealer network with Option Performance tracking and training for both Sales Managers and Sales Executives.
• Handle new vehicle order process (I-Option, Exclusive, Custom Tailoring) and conduct regular order tracking along the supply chain.
• PCCD Option Price Checks and ICC/ DCC Option Description Updates in cooperation with product.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree, college diploma with specialization in automotive or equivalent experience required

Experience (Job And Industry)

• 2+ years experience in the areas of automotive, analytics, planning, reporting and/or forecasting
• Retail and customer service experience preferred

Skills/ Competencies

• Strong analytical skills and detail oriented
• Tenacious, Self-starter and organized
• Goal oriented, thrives on competition and challenges
• Ability to adapt to changing scenarios
• Strong customer orientation, professional presence and assertiveness
• Strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills
• Capable of making decisions; often with limited information and/or limited time
• Superior Excel skills
• Ability to communicate effectively (written/ oral) with internal and external stakeholders
• Understands the intricacies of the retail automotive business
• German and/or French language skills desirable