Planning Assistant (Undergraduate Placement) - Burton on Trent, UK

Pirelli is an international group with a global brand presence, and is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high performance tyres. Pirelli are also leaders in various forms of motorsport such as Formula 1 and the World Superbike. We supply tyres to many of the world’s major Motor brands such as Jaguar Land Rover, Porsche, Range Rover, Lamborghini, Bentley and Aston Martin to name a few.

Pirelli UK Tyres Ltd is the company responsible for all of the Pirelli Tyre related operations in the UK. For more information please visit www.pirelli.co.uk

A 12 month placement is available within our Planning Department. This role involves supporting the department and co-ordinating activity on intercompany materials management and ingredient preparation and planning.  This role will be predominantly office based, with some time spent in the factory.

Role duties include:

• Supporting the department with admin tasks such as tracking reports for raw material arrivals on both Pirelli Burton and Pirelli Carlisle sites and usage
• Booking containers arrivals for both Pirelli Burton and Pirelli Carlisle sites via agent website
• Communicating with suppliers and other Pirelli factories in order to ensure that all import/export documentation is provided to the Customs Agent through the Cudos System & submit import/export documentation into Cudos System correctly
• Supporting with creating purchase orders as required
• Extensive use of Excel, SAP etc
• Control of a work based project

The successful candidate should have:

• Excellent administrative skills and very good attention to detail
• Teamworking skills, also able to work alone and unsupervised
• Good verbal and written communication skills required for frequent use of telephone/e-mails
• MS Office proficiency (especially Microsoft Excel)

Employee benefits include:

• 33 days holiday per year (inclusive of bank holidays)
• Pension scheme with linked life insurance
• Employee discount scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Discounted tyre vouchers

The successful candidate must, by the commencement of employment, have the right to work in the UK. 

Applications close 31.12.2024.