Senior Planning Analyst

Europcar Mobility Group; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Basic Salary

Starting on 6 weeks holiday (including

Free parking

Pension and life insurance

Enhanced Maternity and Adoption Leave

Discounted car hire rates

20% discount on EE mobile contracts

Discounted hotel rates via Accor Group

Cycle2Work

Free annual eye tests

BUPA confidential legal and support

Career progression

Job summary

Europcar Mobility Group in the UK invites applications for a Fleet Planning role that supports the Fleet Planning Manager for the UK & Ireland. This hybrid position sits in Financial Control & Reporting, with office days in Leicester and remote work the rest of the time.

The role focuses on monthly fleet planning, KPI optimisation, and process improvements across procurement and planning teams, while maintaining data integrity in planning systems.

Qualifications

• Experience in fleet planning and reporting processes.
• Strong numerical and data processing skills with Excel/Sheets.
• Ability to liaise with procurement and planning teams.

Responsibilities

• Perform monthly fleet plans in Google Sheets / Excel.
• Optimise the fleet to improve KPIs such as utilisation and cost.
• Review and improve fleet planning processes across IE.
• Coordinate with fleet procurement and RCM teams to optimise infl eets/defleets.
• Ensure accuracy of information in Greenway/Rentway and related files.
• Prepare monthly fleet planning decks for Senior Management.
• Support forecasting to minimise costs and improve EBITDA.

Skills

Numerical skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Proactive mindset

Team player

Tools

Excel

Google Sheets

Google Drive

Business Objects

Job description

To support the Fleet Planning Manager in creating fleet plans for the UK & Ireland. To ensure consistency and clarity of information and all supporting planning documents.

This is a hybrid role within the Financial Control & Reporting department, working twice a week from the Leicester HQ office and the remaining time working from home.

• Competitive Basic Salary
• Starting on 6 weeks holiday (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service
• Free parking is available for colleagues who request a parking space in advance, subject to availability
• Pension and a life insurance scheme
• Enhanced Maternity and Adoption Leave (subject to service and earning qualifications)
• Discounted car hire rates across our network
• 20% discount on EE mobile phone contracts*
• Discounted hotel rates through the Accor Group after 12 months service*
• Cycle2Work*
• Free annual eye tests
• Confidential legal and support service through BUPA
• Career progression and development

*forms part of current non contractual benefit offering

• Performing monthly fleet plans in Google Sheets / Excel
• Optimising the fleet to achieve key fleet KPIs – risk share, SIPP mix, utilisation rate, fleet cost
• Reviewing the current fleet planning process in IE and recommending improvements where needed
• Liaising with the fleet procurement team and RCM team to optimise infleets and defleets
• Ensuring consistency and accuracy of information in Greenway/Rentway
• Performing Group Rotation plans and liaising with the Group teams to explain any variances
• Performing reconciliations between Procurement, RCM and Planning files to ensure consistency
• Performing supporting analysis on the fleet – excess penalties, out of buyback, early returns
• Performing depreciation rate analysis and feeding the outcomes into GWY/Rentway
• Supporting the fleet controlling team in the forecasting process to optimise fleet costs
• Preparing monthly fleet planning decks to the Senior Management team
• Recommending optimal courses of action in the monthly fleet plans to ensure maximisation of EBIDTA and utilisation rates
• Supporting the Group team in implementing new planning tools
• Performing any ad hoc analysis as requested

Key skills and attributes required:

• Energetic, proactive, hardworking with a willingness to learn
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Confident working with numbers
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• MS Office skills, especially Excel (pivot tables, IF statements, vlookups and graphs)
• Google Mail, Google Drive, Google Sheets and Business Objects will be a plus
• Strong motivational skills with the ability to work on your own initiative or as part of a team