Temporary Supply Planner

The Company

The client is a Dutch/Belgian food manufacturing company focused on frozen snacks, meal components, and private-label food products across Europe.

Role Description

As a Supplier Planner, you act as the key link between Demand Planning and Manufacturing operations. You are responsible for developing and managing production plans across 4 to 5 manufacturing sites, ensuring an optimal balance between customer demand, service levels, and factory efficiency. This is a highly dynamic planning environment where priorities can shift frequently. The role requires a proactive professional who can confidently challenge stakeholders, influence decision-making, and drive the most effective supply planning outcomes. You will be part of a team of eight colleagues based in the Netherlands and collaborate regularly with planning colleagues in Spain. This is a temporary position covering a long-term absence, with the possibility of extension.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain weekly production plans for multiple manufacturing sites.
• Balance demand forecasts, commercial requirements, and available production capacity to ensure effective supply planning.
• Anticipate and manage exceptional situations such as major promotional activities, seasonal demand peaks, and factory shutdowns.
• Collaborate closely with planners, production teams, and business support functions across several factories.
• Monitor supply performance, identify planning constraints, and propose practical solutions when production commitments are at risk.
• Act as a trusted business partner to manufacturing sites, challenging assumptions and contributing to continuous planning process improvements.
• Manage competing priorities and adapt quickly to changing business requirements.
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships while confidently defending recommendations and planning decisions where necessary.
• Participate in site visits across manufacturing facilities in the Netherlands approximately once per month.

Requirements

• HBO degree, preferably in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 1 to 5 years of relevant experience within supply planning, production planning, logistics, or supply chain operations.
• Experience with Slim4 (Slimstock) is preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills with strong analytical capabilities.
• Strong affinity for working with data and translating insights into planning decisions.
• Experience with planning systems and supply chain tools is advantageous.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Critical thinker who is comfortable challenging stakeholders and existing processes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to balance customer service objectives with production efficiency requirements.
• Proactive, resilient, and able to perform effectively in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across multiple functions.
• Fluent in Dutch and English.
• Full-time position (40 hours per week); 36 hours per week is negotiable.
• Flexible working hours within standard office hours.
• Hybrid working model with the possibility to work from home on Fridays after completion of the onboarding period.
• Primarily office-based during the remainder of the workweek.
• Monthly travel to one or more production sites within the Netherlands is required.

Other information

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