Planning, Ordering & Distribution Manager | Portugal

“If you are passionate about people and feel excited about being part of transforming a whole industry - then keep reading!”

About us

Polestar is an electric performance brand, determined to improve the society we live in by catalysing the change to sustainable mobility. We are a team of highly talented individuals who share a passion to change the world. We challenge conventions and we challenge ourselves for the purpose of innovation. We believe innovation is a team effort and each component is critical to the performance of our cars. Each person working at Polestar is as important to the team and its performance. We are all in, dedicated on our ambition. Guiding our industry forward through pure, progressive, performance.

Our focus is on uncompromised design and technology. Passion and emotion drive us, electricity and innovation drive our cars. Our products are excellent, efficient, and entertaining. In Polestar’s future, there is no room for shortcuts, excuses, or compromises.

At Polestar, the sky is the limit.

Let us describe the challenge we offer

We have an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, exciting, and dynamic start-up organization. In an ambitious growth strategy, we are now seeking a Planning, Ordering & Distribution (POD) Manager to join the Polestar Portugal team.

Reporting to the Market Lead you will cover sales forecasting, order tracking, delivery planning, registrations as well as the various internal fleets. You will focus the OTD strategy to ensure that foremost the Polestar customers are delivered their cars in an efficient and premium manner. You will also be the team’s product expert and, in this role, support the team and exterior partners with product knowledge and training. It will require someone who can manage multiple high-level stakeholders, both internal and external as POD is integral to the success of Polestar Portugal. You will possess a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude, excellent time management and the ability to balance multiple tasks, and switch priority / focus as needed.

What you’ll do

The core responsibilities include:

• Ensure that all cars within Portugal market are delivered on time and in a Polestar way
• Monitoring and report on order bank, creating forecasting models and subsequent targets
• Review and manage third party logistics providers
• Placing stock orders, reporting on stock situation, and managing order matching
• Departmental KPI/Scorecard reporting
• Ensuring data within the factory order system (VISTA) is accurate and supports dashboard reports, highlighting any discrepancies between systems to central teams.
• Troubleshooting any problems within the OTD (Order To Delivery) journey and escalating where necessary.
• Investigate and follow up on process gaps and highlight opportunities for improvement
• Planning and overseeing requirements for the registration of vehicles
• Adapt and produce product information documents
• Product training

You and your skills:

To be successful in this role you have/are:

• At least 5 years of experience in automotive
• Excellent oral and written communication in English
• A valid driver’s license
• Excellent knowledge of Excel

Competence and experience are important, but personality is key!

We are a start-up company with strong growth focus. As we are in a phase of setting up our global organization and developing processes and tools while growing at a high speed, experience is required to manage the level of complexity and fast decision taking. We are a flat organization with a Go-Get-Attitude, and we act as a strong team to get things done to enable the business to be successful. We work with speed and engagement in a collaborative manner.

Is this you?

We look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible. We will do ongoing selection of candidates during the application period, so don't hesitate to submit your application if you're interested.

Are you ready for the journey? Which is electric by the way…

Industry

• Automotive

Employment Type

• Full-time

Job Functions

• Project Management
• Data collation and analysis
• Stakeholder management
• Resource co-ordination
• Logistics and planification