Central Material Planner Veghel • Vanderlande

Your Role

As a Central Material Planner, your main focus is to balance, secure and assure material availability to the Central Warehouse. You are the first point of contact for the Operational Buyer and Project Material Planner.

Your tasks and responsibilities

Central Material Planners, form a key part of the Supply Chain of Vanderlande. Their job is to anticipate and maintain central warehouse stock levels to ensure the business runs smoothly. As a Central Material Planner, you manage the short-term Materials Availability. You maintain the supply integrity of the Central Warehouse(s). You make sure that the Ordering department and Project Material Planners deliver and execute according to existing agreements. You inform and manage your stakeholders like the Ordering department and Project Material Planning.

Your responsibilities and activities will be:

• Validates demand and create orders to the Ordering department
• Validates DRP messages and acts accordingly towards stakeholders
• Maintains Supply and Demand for (set of) a category on central warehouses
• First point of contact for Operational Buyers and Project Material Planners
• Drive planning process, methodology and tooling improvements

Your profile

For this position, we require:

• Master or Bachelor degree in a Supply Chain related field of study
• Working experience (min. 2+ years) in preferably 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

You should apply when you are:

• An excellent communicator in English
• An expert in balancing stakeholders
• Able to collaborate easily with stakeholders
• A strong planner and organizer
• Result oriented and stress-resistant
• Self-confident and independent

Your department

Vanderlande is dedicated to improving its customers’ business processes and competitive position. Vanderlande is the expert in automated material handling systems, which we mainly deliver to our customers by executing projects that focus on design, 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 consist of 3 Supply Chain Centers (SCC) in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.

What we offer?

This position offers a competitive salary range of € 4.100 – € 4.900 per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance). Through exceeding performance expectations, you even have the possibility to grow outside this scale. 

On top of your fixed salary you’ll receive the following secondary benefits:​

• 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).​
• Flexible working hours.​
• A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).​
• A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year.
• Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.​
• Working from home allowance.​
• Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.​
• On-site company health centres with a gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.​
• Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.​
• A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.​
• And a great company restaurant and coffee bar with barista.

Your application​

If the role of Central Material Planner appeals to you, then please apply now by completing the application form, and uploading your CV and covering letter.

For more information, please contact Stef Alferink (recruiter) by phone +31 413 755 087