Planner

Planner  

Location:  Beerse 

Essential: Fluent in English and Dutch desirable, 5 years planning experience 

Contract: Dec 2025, hybrid working (3 days onsite, 2 days home office)

The department - Clinical Supply Planning 

The Role:

• Hosting planning forums on multiple product categories (Drug Substance, Drug Product, Clinical Finished goods) to align on actions needed to making plans a reality

• Provide back-up for other planning functions as needed

• Master Production Scheduling

• Detailed Scheduling

• Material Requirements Planning

• Supply Network Planning

• Review exceptions

• Optimize the flow of materials while considering plant warehouse capacity and inventory management policies, eliminating potential disruptions in the storage area.

Key Responsibilities:

• Hosting planning forums (Reliability Rooms)

• Host forum with different stakeholders and align on milestones that needed to achieve on-time delivery

• Identify bottlenecks or other constraints in the supply chain of the materials under review and follow up on the defined mitigation actions

• Provide end-to-end perspective and impact analysis of (potential) supply disruptions across product levels.

• Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

• Responsible for running the material requirements plan for component materials needed for clinical finished goods manufacturing (e.g. packaging materials, desiccants, booklets,…).

• Maintain offline tools (MS Office) used for MRP planning and related processes and make improvements where possible.

• Ownership and maintenance of planning parameters for MRP process (e.g. re-order point, MOQ, …)

• Collaborate with partner functions (e.g. buyer, clinical supplies documentation, warehouse, QA/QC) to order component materials and ensure their timely delivery.

• Provide impact assessment to partner functions (e.g. production planners, trial supply planners) in case of delays or material unavailability.

• Share weekly updates on KPI’s with planning team, partner functions and senior PLAN leaders

• Further improve planning processes that enable to better support clinical trial needs.

• Site Capacity Planning/MPS

• Responsible for running a capacity constrained weekly master production schedule (MPS) and ensuring raw material availability

• Perform site capacity planning and site MPS in terms of resources, shifts, equipment and shutdowns

• Responsible for optimizing the committed dates for packaging and labeling campaigns according to the study priorities.

• Review MPS, resolve issues, and optimizes MPS, running scenarios as needed

• Site Constraint Management

• Planning and freeze period management of production activities (rescheduling, reworks)

• Resolves any manufacturing conflicts for the site. Manages impact and communication of manufacturing driven changes

• Scheduling

• Optimizes production schedule in accordance to study priorities and available capacity

• Communicates/hands over detailed schedule to manufacturing for execution

• Responsible for communicating milestones when campaigns are scheduled

• Conducts the weekly Operations Planning meeting

• Other

• Provides input into S&OP process. Provides transparency of risks and opportunities.

• Participate in initiatives to improve business processes and tools.

• Act as a back-up for select other roles in the Pack & Label Planning team

• Maintain strong collaborations and relationships with the other material planners, production planners, trial supply planners, global planning, clinical supplies documentation group and the packaging operations unit to ensure last-minute changes or issues can be handled adequately.

How to Succeed:

• Experience in MPS, MRP, Detailed Scheduling or demonstrated knowledge in supply

• chain management, preferably in a clinical or pharmaceutical environment.

• Results-oriented, sense of urgency.

• Ability to work in a cross-functional and cross-cultural environment, considering diverse

• perspectives and styles.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to make data-driven decisions and resolve

• exceptions aimed at minimizing supply disruptions and increase speed.

• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Ability to target communications as appropriate for the audience and make

• presentations to a small to medium sized audience

• Ability to influence others in a matrix environment

• Ability to challenge the status quo and evaluate processes to determine if refinements

• would enhance speed of results and productivity or quality

• Ability to work with multiple scenarios, identify cost/benefit trade-offs and make

• recommendations supported on data and insights

Education & Experience: 

Degree

• Bachelor degree in supply chain or equivalent through experience. Generally, requires 3 years of related or relevant experience.

• Supply chain certification (APICS/IBF) desirable

Languages

• English essential , Dutch Preferred 

Systems:

• Strong Microsoft Office skills to support and maintain offline planning tools. (MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, VBA)

• Experience with ERP (SAP) & Advanced Planning Systems (OMP) is preferred

• Experienced in GMP, GCP, GDP and or quality management systems or processes.

Benefits

This role offers a competitive hourly rate & a supportive working environment. 

about Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

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Our diverse portfolio spans multiple therapeutic areas — Oncology, Immunology, Neuroscience, Cardiovascular, Pulmonary Hypertension, and Retina.

We are continuously working to develop treatments, aspiring to find cures, pioneering the path from lab to life, and championing patients every step of the way.

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application process

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