REQ ID: 128943
JOB TITLE: Freight Analyst
SALARY: £40,000 - £50,000
POSTING START DATE: 05/06/2025
POSTING END DATE: 19/06/2025
LOCATION: Solihull
Working in Manufacturing at JLR, you'll be the hands-on expert who brings innovation to life. You'll collaborate with a team of expert technicians and problem-solvers and use cutting-edge tools, facilities, and processes engineered together to build era-defining vehicles that people across the world know and love. Your expertise will directly impact the shaping of modern luxury. Together, let’s create the exceptional.
WHAT TO EXPECT
The Freight Operations Group department covers Inbound Freight, Packaging, and Finished Vehicle Distribution. This role will support Inbound Freight and Packaging by managing the delivery of major Packaging projects. The Inbound Freight Packaging Analyst will play a vital role in delivering International Vehicle and Powertrain Programmes to support JLR’s plans for increased volume, product range, and globalization.
Responsibilities include:
1. Project managing service providers to develop innovative solutions to optimize the supply chain for international vehicle and powertrain programmes, ensuring delivery against all programme milestones.
2. Supporting the creation of packaging standards and guidelines.
3. Supporting sustainability targets by reducing waste and implementing circular economy practices.
4. Participating in packaging concept and prototype buy-offs.
5. Managing packaging deliveries to the supply base.
6. Developing packaging strategies for shipping products overseas through data analysis, competitor benchmarking, and strategic packaging trials.
7. Coordinating resolution of packaging issues, providing containment and long-term solutions.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
To succeed in this role, you should have:
* Experience in freight, packaging, or logistics is desirable.
* An understanding of supply chain operations, working processes, and practices.
* Good analytical skills and statistical ability.
* Experience or knowledge of project management and process improvement.
* Experience in packaging design and manufacturing.
* Experience in packaging data management.
This role requires frequent travel across JLR site locations in the UK and Europe and the ability to work at specific locations for set periods, often on short notice (Halewood, Solihull, EPMC, BAC, DC7, Castle Bromwich, and Nitra).
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming culture. Candidates may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process; please discuss these with your recruiter to accommodate your needs.
Applicants from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we believe in your potential to grow and develop within the role. Living the exceptional with soul is what makes us unique.
JLR is an equal opportunity employer.
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