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Job Description
Services Parts Planner
Full time
Derby
What you will be doing:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, self-motivated individual to join the Trent XWB Sales & Operations Planning team as a Services Parts Planner. This role offers an exciting opportunity to be part of a team accountable for forecasting over £500m of parts demand every year.
The Trent XWB Value Stream is at the heart of one of the most successful widebody aircraft programmes in modern aviation. The Trent XWB engine family is the exclusive powerplant for the Airbus A350 family, providing industry-leading efficiency, reliability, and long-range capability.
The successful candidate will carry out the parts planning, forecasting, and inventory management activities required to support a wide range of customer, overhaul, repair, and distribution networks. Other key activities include:
- Working closely with external and internal stakeholders (used material / supply chain) to understand part policies / usage.
- Developing new approaches and recommendations to improve financial performance and demand accuracy.
- Maintaining an operational focus to highlight emerging risks to MRO overhaul activities.
You will be comfortable in working across multi-functional teams, obtaining and challenging information to determine root causes, making decisions through risk-based analysis to ensure cost-effective corrective solutions are put in place, and taking ownership to drive investigations and actions to conclusion, including Engineering, Engine Clearance, Repair Services, and Supply Chains based in the UK and overseas.
Responsibilities:
In this role you will:
- Evaluate SIOP demand and supply plans to identify customer or financial risk and manage the resolution of any issues.
- Work with customers to maintain forecasts for all in-service requirements, ensuring variances to forecast are investigated and quality of demand accuracy and inventory are improved.
- Plan, manage, report, and drive inventory by analyzing trends to produce recommendations that improve/manage inventory and stock turn objectives.
- Liaise with various disciplines across the Project Team to develop an accurate understanding of the Fleet Operational Plan and other parts usage drivers, including campaign and cost management activity.
- Lead and support the development of active used material management processes and policies in support of customer MRO activities.
- Identify and evaluate causes of variability, impact of policy changes, financial considerations, and risk mitigation strategies which affect demand accuracy.
- Apply through-life policies to generate gross asset (component) forecast and stock requirements for new, used, and repair supply chains.
- Maintain the appropriate understanding of the current performance of the new parts and repair supply chains to enable appropriate and early recommendations to manage risks.
- Support product change governance, including attendance at PCB, PTM, and Repair Executive Reviews.
- Support process improvement through the Community of Practice.
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Preferred requirements:
- Strong data analysis and decision-making skills.
- IT proficiency, including good working knowledge of SAP MRP/Sales & Distribution & Excel.
- Understanding of inventory principles, planning, and managing.
- Understanding of forecasting and demand management principles.
- Programme management experience in support of development and execution of strategies and new concepts.
- Experience of MRO/used material supply chains, including Reduce To Parts (RTP).
- Experience of Supply Chain and Manufacturing.
As part of this role, the successful candidate will interface with a wide range of disciplines and be confident in acting as a Rolls-Royce Planning & Control advocate with internal and external customers. These include Wholly Owned, Joint Venture, and Independent Overhaul Shops, Airlines, Services Business & Delivery.
- Have or be working towards professional APICS membership would be advantageous.
- Awareness of Aftermarket Operations, including overhaul or repair activities, would be an advantage.
- Programme management skills and experience in developing and defining new processes and methodologies.
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Why Rolls-Royce?
At Rolls-Royce, we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting, and connecting people everywhere.
Within Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.
Regional Benefits:
- Generous Annual Leave.
- Retirement Savings through the Rolls-Royce Retirement Savings Trust.
- Group Life Assurance provides for a lump sum benefit if you die while employed by Rolls-Royce & Group Income Protection provides an income in the event that you are unable to work due to illness or injury.
- Employee Assistance (EAP) and Live Well programmes.
Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient, and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.
Rolls-Royce is committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.
Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk. The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to be SNBG 7 – 10.
This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.
It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.
For further information please contact:
Cassie Beetz
Recruiter: Andy Walsh – andy.walsh2@Rolls-Royce.com
Job Category
Supply Chain Planning & Control
Posting Date
06 Aug 2026; 00:08
Posting End Date
05 Aug 2026
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