South Africa: Pre-Series Analyst posted by Profile Personnel

About the Role

The Pre-Series Analyst role at Profile Personnel is a critical position responsible for ensuring the smooth introduction of new vehicle models into production. The ideal candidate will have a strong analytical mindset, excellent problem-solving skills, and experience working in logistics environments within the automotive industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinating and leading cross divisional commodity meetings to action risks/problems.
• Managing special component orders to secure optimal introduction of changes into production to prevent volume loss, quality issues, or on-costs.
• Ensuring Quality and Engineering approval is complete before hand-over to CKD and Local material control.
• Managing pre-series stock levels by initiating removal/scrap/reordering of components based on pre-series build corridor and input from Engineering, Quality, and Production/Pilot Hall.
• Monitoring pre-series vehicle requests on COPS to ensure timeous SCE breakdowns are in line with accurate BOM for sourcing parts in MY and new models introductions.
• Compiling picking lists of pre-series vehicles and coordinating dunnage meetings prior to vehicle builds.
• Compiling and maintaining the pre-series database regarding component readiness, tracing, and availability for the pre-series build milestones collecting information from various sources (SV orders, ProCKD, CX, WEBEDI, PROMON, Aekos, Deviations).
• Evaluating the impact of Aekos and essential Running Changes on the Pre-series Bill of Material and approving accordingly with recommended introduction dates.
• Manipulating the Single car explosion to implement temporary changes (Aekos/deviations) by determining appropriate usage PR, colour, and trim combinations as well as effective period.
• Investigating and sourcing components for ad-hoc queries to ensure accuracy of the bill of Material.

Requirements

• Degree or Diploma in Industrial, Electrical, Electronic Engineering, Production Management, Business Management, Supply Chain Management, Commerce, Logistics, Transport, Information Technology/Systems, or Data Science.
• At least 3 years of experience gained within the automotive industry in a Logistics environment.
• Project Management Experience.

Qualifications

None mentioned.

Salary & Benefits

Not mentioned.

Essentials

• Analytical skills with an innovative approach to problem-solving.
• Computer literate, Microsoft Office Package (Word; Excel & PowerPoint) SAP, Power BI.
• Understanding of RPA (Robotic Process Automation).
• Sound interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently (self-motivated).
• Ability to prepare and present reports and presentations to management.

Added Advantage

• German language.
• Knowledge of specific Group systems.
• TEVON system including the reporting tool PROMON.
• COPS system.
• ProCKD.
• AVON.