Network Planner

Operational) Supply Chain Planner

Job description

Are you experienced in the field of Supply Chain? Are you a stress-resistant team-player, with can-do mentality and excellent communications skills? Are you experienced in the Supply or Demand Planning? At Vanderlande we are currently searching for a Project Material Planner!

Your Role

Are you capable of retaining an overview and setting the right priorities? Would you like to work in a pragmatic, dynamic supply chain environment in which you are highly aware of quality, performance and results? Do you know what it takes to implement improvements across the globe?

Your tasks and responsibilities

Network supply form a key part of supply chain within Vanderlande, and their main focus is Execute our daily allocation of workload release towards our factories & subcontractors.

Your responsibilities and activities will be:

• Execute our daily allocation of workload release towards our factories & subcontractors.
• Give advice and enter supply plans from our S&OP tooling into our ERP system.
• Process revisions of the projects on demand and planning
• Be the linking pin between a tactical S&OP team and project execution.
• Handle exceptions within our supply chain
• Caring for details and adhering to a standardized process
• Enabling a smooth order flow by ensuring a timely and first-time right specification handling
• Cooperate and communicate effectively on a global level.
• Understanding the influencing factors of the workload within our supply chain

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• Working experience (min. 4+ years) preferably in a high-tech environment 
• Excellent communication skills 
• Strong stakeholder management skills 
• Supply Chain and Planning experience are a plus 
• JDE experience is a Plus 
• Drive to win, result and goal oriented with a hands-on mentality

Knowledge-Skills-Abilities:

• Knowledge of Supply Chain management (supply and demand) 
• Able to collaborate easily with stakeholders 
• A strong planner and organizer 
• Acting as mature partner for process improvement in procurement and related processes 
• Result oriented and stress-resistant 
• Self-confident and independent 
• Ability to interact with a diverse team of internal disciplines in an international business setting.  
• Persuasiveness: Ability to get things done with peers and management by influence.  
• Demonstrates strong analytical and problem-solving skills.  
• Maintains a cooperative and flexible work style.  
• Initiative; takes over concerns proactively.  
• Ability to work across organizational boundaries with inter-disciplinary teams.  
• Understands the importance of traceability throughout a process 

Your department

Vanderlande is dedicated to improving its customers’ business processes and competitive position. Vanderlande is an expert in automated material handling systems, which we mainly deliver to our customers by executing projects that focus on design, our own manufacturing, 3rd party supply and installation of these systems. Our systems and associated services enable fast, reliable, goods handling in distribution centers, parcel, and postal sortation facilities, as well as baggage handling at airports.

The Global Supply Chain organization plays a key role in the world-wide deliveries of products and services to Vanderlande solutions and consists of three Supply Chain Centers (SCC) in Europe (EU), North America (NA), and Asia Pacific (AP). Supply Chain Coordination North America is part of SCC NA and is responsible for coordinating these Vanderlande projects within Supply Chain.