TOYOTA is one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers and a leading global corporation. Founded in 1937. Toyota now sells vehicles in 170 countries and employs over 350.000 people. Based in Brussels, Belgium, and staffed by 2.700 people and more than 60 nationalities, Toyota Motor Europe (TME) handles the wholesale marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts & accessories, and manages Toyota’s European R&D, manufacturing, and engineering operations.

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Team description

Located just outside Brussels is our European Distribution Centre in Diest called Toyota Parts Centre Europe (TPCE) employing 930 people. It is responsible for the procurement, storage and logistics supply of a dedicated range of Toyota/Lexus spare parts, accessories and technical campaign parts supporting the both the new car sales and existing customer vehicles service and warranty needs.
The Diest facility itself receives parts from over 700 different suppliers (from Japan to local suppliers) managing over 250,000 part numbers and >150 trucks per day in a dedicated 100,000m2 facility. It’s 2 outbound logistics roles covers; providing direct overnight supply to >600 Toyota dealers in local region, and supporting the 13 European Regional Distribution Centres to ensure a consistent high level of Just In Time service to all National Marketing & Sales Companies and Toyota dealers within Europe and our final customers beyond.

Your responsibilities

• Responsible for the procurement and inventory control of parts and accessories sourced from local suppliers.
• Analyze stock and service levels. Initiate necessary improvement actions to meet our customers’ service expectation in line with targets for key KPI’s:
  • Follow up allocation Service Rate to Toyota customers
  • Solve backorders to Toyota customers
• Respond to customer complaints in a professional way
• Improve supplier performance. Create & follow up actions plans with supplier to cover any gap to target, using the TPS (Toyota Production System) philosophy and Toyota problem solving approach:
  • Create/map/review & improve processes
  • Understand abnormalities caused by supplier in our warehouse. Visit supplier to understand rootcause, to find countermeasures, to improve process to avoid recurrence, to support in creation of standards.
• Ensure availability of parts to European Markets through regional locations and beyond to the end customer, for both current and future models of Toyota and Lexus vehicles.

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For TME Graduate positions we are targeting recent University Graduates (less than 18 months of experience excluding internships)

• Master in supply chain/logistics/procurement/related discipline such as economics, engineering graduates are also welcome to apply.
• Genuinely interested in the automotive industry & supply chain management.
• Attention to detail and enjoys working in an active supply environment.
• Outgoing proactive personality with excellent teamwork skills with customer mind-set.
• Very good numeric and MS office skills including Power BI
• Some business travel necessary to both Brussels Head Office and European supplier’s hence driving license is required.
• Fluent in English as business language is necessary, Dutch is a plus.

Place of employment

• Belgium - Diest: Toyota Parts Center Europe

We offer

Permanent contract

• An 18-months training program (on top of the daily job)
  • On the job training
  • Classroom training (Toyota Way, Toyota Production System…)
  • Experiential training (5-6 weeks Line training at an European Manufacturing Company…)
• Evolution towards the “Specialist” grade after graduation

Toyota offers a comprehensive remuneration package, including a bonus scheme and interesting extra-legal benefits.  We provide flexibility to take care of both your career and your personal life by providing hybrid work environment with structural possibility to both work from home & collaborate in the office. You can also take your work abroad for up to 20 days/year. If you want to know more, please check-out our Career and Benefits page.

At Toyota Motor Europe, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all. All our recruitment decisions are based on the individual and their qualifications along with the job requirements. The selection process is without regard to nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, ethnicity, disability or other personal characteristics. We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination as our individual experiences and overall diversity is our key strength. Together we have the power to make a positive change and go beyond the ordinary.

If you need any specific consideration for the interview process due to disability or any other reason, please let the recruiter know.