At this company in Breda medicines are labeled, assembled, stored, and shipped to various countries worldwide. Every day more than 1000 people from 38 different nationalities work on supply chain processes, manufacturing, marketing, and sales of our medicines and clinical research into new drugs.
What you will do
Our Supply Planning team plays a key role in fulfilling the mission. We ensure supply to patients in close to 100 markets in Europe, Turkey, Middle East and Africa Regions. As part of the operations team located in Breda, we are responsible to manage the short, medium- and long-term plans for incoming supplies for production and warehouse. The Breda site is Class A certified and widely recognized in the network for its capabilities to deal with high complexity, short lead times, and stable operation.
To expand our team, we are looking for a Detailed Scheduler to support our Supply Planning team: junior or experienced Supply Chain professional. Do you like new challenges? Then let’s do this. Let’s change the world.
In this role, you will:
- Manage short-term production planning for packaging lines, ensuring timely delivery and stable supply chains to our patients.
- Craft production plans, manage orders, drive timely delivery and support phase-in-phase-out of product and launches.
- Support flawless execution and remove flow stoppers
- Measuring of weekly and monthly KPI’s and set actions towards stakeholders for improvement/ e.g. MPS Stability (master production schedule)
- Participate and facilitate in daily operational meetings to oversee performance and coordinate actions across departments.
- Collaborate closely with manufacturing, quality, warehouse and supply chain; lead weekly capacity meetings to align on realistic supply plans.
- Drive standardization, simplification, and automation of processes in your daily work as well as in cross-functional projects.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives and root cause analyses.
- Demonstrate leadership in ensuring stable operations and supply chain efficiency with adhering to and within GMP and GDP guidelines.
What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our outstanding contributions to serve patients. The supply chain and planning professional we seek is detail-oriented and a strong collaborator with the following qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Strong knowledge of supply chain planning processes and principles.
- Experience in supply chain planning.
- Experience in detailed scheduling and/or production scheduling is preferred.
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.
- Analytical skills with the ability to perform root cause analysis and solve problems in a team environment.
- Experience in a regulated Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) environment is beneficial but not required.
- Passion for standardization, process improvement, and process automation.
- Interest and/or experience with Tableau, Smartsheet, Databricks, and RPA tools is preferred.
- We welcome both junior and experienced professionals; there is no minimum years of experience requirement.
- Ability to work on-site in Breda a minimum of 4 days per week. But the first 6 months of training, 4-5 days onsite is needed.