Netherlands Supply Planner: Demand & Inventory Optimizer

NL23 (FCRS = NL023) Sandoz B.V; Almere; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandoz is seeking a proactive Supply Planner to ensure continuous supply of medicines into the Netherlands. You will coordinate between commercial teams and suppliers to align supply with demand, meeting sales, CSL, and inventory targets.

You will be part of the Planning department within Supply Chain, reporting to the Manager of Supply Chain Planning. You are analytical, collaborative, and eager to drive improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master in supply chain, operations management or related field.
• Deep knowledge of SCM, supply planning and inventory management.
• Analytical and structured mindset.
• Good stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in a similar position.
• Fluent English; Dutch is a plus.
• Knowledge of SAP, SAP S4/Hana, RapidResponse, QlikSense, Power BI and Power Query; AI tools welcomed.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for planning and managing orders from intercompany and third-party suppliers to ensure availability and stock targets are met.
• Operationally lead execution and support last mile actions per GDP standards.
• Manage stakeholders across commercial, quality and customer service to set priorities and drive actions.
• Maintain dialogue with sites, suppliers and 3PL to ensure timely delivery and escalate when needed.
• Run analysis of supply and sales forecast data to provide inputs for effective planning.
• Challenge forecast accuracy and claimed sales projections.
• Analyze large data sets of supply data and KPIs to improve performance and processes.
• Collaborate with the supply planning team on system usage and processes.
• Suggest and drive improvement initiatives.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Structured thinking

Stakeholder management

Experience in planning

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in supply chain/ops

Tools

SAP

S4/Hana

RapidResponse

QlikSense

Power BI

Job description

Sandoz is seeking a proactive Supply Planner to ensure continuous supply of medicines into the Netherlands. You will coordinate between commercial teams and suppliers to align supply with demand, meeting sales, CSL, and inventory targets.

You will be part of the Planning department within Supply Chain, reporting to the Manager of Supply Chain Planning. You are analytical, collaborative, and eager to drive improvements.