Product Planner

Product Planner

• 40 hours per week
• 1 year contract
• Breda - working from home is possible for some days per week

As a Product Planner, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring seamless supply of our life-changing products to patients in 75 countries globally. You'll manage supply plans for your products and production lines across, ensuring reliable and stable supply while navigating product launches, phase-outs, business trends, production capacity utilization, and component management.

Your expertise will help control costs and cash impact while minimizing scrap exposure and maintaining target inventory levels.

Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role, you will:
* Be responsible for the planning activities of tactical and strategic horizon.
* Be responsible and ownership of products and line for the mis -and long term planning in Rapid Response
* Communicate effectively with critical resource owners.
* Participate in weekly and monthly meetings e.g IDP sto's/ PLT's/ GSCT's/ During these meetings , tactical and strategic metrics and approaches will be discussed. Collaborate with Global teams; GNP, GSCL's and give your feedback and advice on strategic decisions
* Bring opportunities and risks to the table, with regards to variation management, scrap global initiatives and different strategies.
* Refers and follows established policies and procedures associates with the role.
* Proactively assess and manage inventory positions, aligning them with strategic targets.
* Drive towards a stable, efficient Supply Plan and address any deviations or constraints with root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
* Ensure timely completion of planning cycles and provide scenario analyses to support decision-making.
* Collaborate with supply sites to ensure the seamless flow of supply.


What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Supply Chain professional we seek is a decision maker with these qualifications:
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, or Engineering.
* Proven experience in end-to-end Supply Chain Planning and Operations, preferably in a regulated environment such as pharmaceuticals, medtech, food/beverages, or ingredients.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
* Ability to collaborate and build strong connections.
* Previous experience with Continuous Improvement methodologies and tools (like Lean and Six Sigma).
* Pro-active attitude
* Can-do mentality and mindset, taking things to the finish line with you as a leader
* E2E supply chain mindset
* High entrepreneurship, ownership


Knowledge in SAP and RR is a pre.