Supply Network Planner

Are you a natural problem-solver who enjoys working with a wide range of stakeholders? Join FrieslandCampina as a Supply Network Planner for our Professional B2B Business Unit! We’re looking for someone to step into this 1-year temporary role to cover for a team member who will be contributing to a major IT project.

The Supply Network Planner is responsible for creating the optimal supply network plan for their product portfolio. The supply network plan is based on the latest demand, planning parameters, inventory levels in order to realize the requested performance while maximizing value for FrieslandCampina.

You’ll collaborate closely with teams across the business, including Production, Quality Control, Sales, Demand Planning, and Order Fulfilment. The Encapsulates planning team focuses on planning products like non-dairy creamers, fat powders, and foamers for Food & Beverage customers worldwide. Production takes place in our facilities in Meppel (Netherlands), Lippstadt (Germany), Salatiga (Indonesia), Manilla (Philippines), and with a contract manufacturer in China.

This role can be based in either Amersfoort or Meppel—whichever suits you best.

What we ask

• Bachelor (HBO) or Master (WO) degree
• 2 years of relevant work experience
• Knowledge of production and logistics in an FMCG / Food environment
• Knowledge of Planning Systems (preferred SAP R/3, APO DP/SNP, BW)
• Affinity with working in an international team
• A problem solver, who thinks in opportunities and challenges
• The ability to take decisions based on limited or ambiguous information
• A strong drive towards customer satisfaction and operational excellence
• Enthusiastic, able to motivate and engage with colleagues, management and customers
• Able to hold business discussions in Dutch and English
• You will travel 1 day a week to Meppel if Amersfoort is your office location or 1 day a week to Amersfoort if Meppel is your office location.

What we offer

• Unique company culture of Dutch heritage and international presence
• We offer great work life balance, and competitive salary & benefits package
• Depending on your experience, the salary for this role lies between €3.811 - €5.172 based on fulltime (38 hours);
• Workweek of 38 hours, competitive pension scheme, holiday allowance of 8%, end year allowance 4%, bonus scheme, flexible working hours and the ability to work from home.
• Diverse training and mentoring programs to help you grow on your own professional journey
• Exceptional support of cross disciplinary movement within the company to broaden your knowledge and growth paths
• A friendly and informal working environment, yet professional team members as sparring partners
• Autonomy and trust to create longer term impact that helps bring better nutrition to the world
• Free cheese and milk at lunch in the central office, and barista coffee to help you go through your working days with a lot of joy
• FrieslandCampina has a ‘fietsplan’

Vacancy description

• Supply Network Planning & Optimization.
• Prepare and optimize the operational and tactical (1-18 months) planning for the Lippstadt product portfolio.
• Prepare and optimize continuously the plan by balancing demand, inventories and production and packaging capacities.
• Identify constraints and opportunities as input for S&OP. Participate in the tactical supply review as part of the S&OP process. Perform complex scenario analyses and support financial decision making for own scope of planning.
• Discuss plant performance, maintenance plans and capacities with your plant periodically.
• Collaboration with Make, Sales, Source, Plan and Deliver Collaborate and communicate constructively with the relevant stakeholders.
• Project Management Lead and/or participate in assigned projects (e.g. New Product Developments, Change controls, Business Intelligence, Continuous improvement) within the Customer Supply Chain.
• Continuous Improvement: Processes, procedures and systems Improve and optimize planning, initiate and come up with new approaches for procedures, processes and tools taking into account the full supply chain.

For thousands of people every day, we are more than just a dairy company. To our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with and the people to whom we bring happiness, FrieslandCampina means something more. For them it's not just about what we do, but who we are. We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves. We encourage all of our employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina we own our own career and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture. Working at FrieslandCampina means you are contributing to a better world.

This role is part of the Supply team within the Customer Supply Chain of our Professional Business Unit (B2B). The Encapsulates Supply team consists of 8 employees based in Amersfoort, Meppel, Lippstadt & Salatiga (Indonesia), working as Supply Planners or Locations Leads for the factories Meppel, Lippstadt, Salatiga and external manufacturers. The S&OP and Supply team is a talented and driven team with a growth mindset.