Supply Planner

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General information

Supply Planner

As a Supply Planner, you play a key role in ensuring a reliable and efficient supply of products to our customers. You are responsible for developing, monitoring, and optimizing short and long-term production plans while balancing customer demand, production capacity, and inventory levels.

Working closely with Production, Supply Chain, Quality, and other internal stakeholders, you translate business needs into realistic planning scenarios and proactively identify risks, opportunities, and bottlenecks. You continuously seek improvements in processes, systems, and reporting to support operational excellence.

Your tasks

Supply Planning & System Management

  • Develop and maintain short and long-term production plans.
  • Monitor planning performance and proactively identify capacity constraints and supply risks.
  • Translate portfolio and assortment changes into production planning requirements.
  • Maintain planning data within ERP systems and support continuous system improvements.
  • Act as a key user for planning-related systems, tools, or reporting solutions.

Inventory Management

  • Manage inventory levels to maximize customer order fulfillment while minimizing excess and obsolete stock.
  • Monitor inventory risks, shortages, and surplus stock.
  • Optimize inventory allocation and support efficient inventory utilization across the organization.

Continuous Improvement

  • Drive initiatives that improve planning processes, systems, and performance.
  • Ensure consistency and compliance within planning processes.
  • Develop and maintain planning procedures, work instructions, and planning tools.
  • Participate in operational and cross-functional improvement projects.

Reporting & Stakeholder Communication

  • Prepare, develop, and maintain planning and management reports.
  • Collaborate proactively with internal stakeholders to define objectives, timelines, and actions.
  • Communicate production plans effectively to manufacturing teams and align on capacity utilization.
  • Identify and escalate potential issues in a timely manner while proposing practical solutions.
You have
  • Bachelor's degree (HBO level or equivalent), preferably in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations Management, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 3 years of planning experience in a complex manufacturing environment; pharmaceutical or regulated industry experience is highly desirable.
  • Experience with ERP systems and process optimization initiatives.
  • APICS certification is considered an advantage.
Who are we looking for?
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
  • Advanced Excel skills and experience with ERP systems (Navision experience is a plus).
  • Proactive, hands-on, and improvement-driven mindset.
  • Strong prioritization and organizational skills.
  • Customer and service-oriented approach.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Strong team player with the ability to influence and persuade others.
  • Results-driven with a commercial mindset.
Our offer
  • You will be part of a steadily growing and dynamic biopharmaceutical company offering a great environment for self-starters.
  • A culture that is characterized by entrepreneurial spirit and a friendly and helpful atmosphere. The patient’s well-being is always our top priority. This combination is the basis for an interesting and challenging environment.
  • You will be working in our dynamic headquarters in Leiden, where we work on the full project pipeline from development to commercial production.
  • Being part of a company that is geared towards helping people live happier and healthier lives.
  • A competitive salary that matches your responsibilities and experience.
  • A 13th month salary
  • 30 leave days.
  • Company contribution to a pension package and health insurance.
 
Your application
We look forward to hearing from you! We are interested in your CV, but we also want to find out more about your ambitions, your personality and what drives you to apply. So be sure to include a brief cover letter telling us why you are a match for this position. The application process consists of an introduction by the Recruiter, three interviews either via video call or live at our office in Leiden with the Hiring Manager and/or a Department Specialist and the CEO followed by contract negotiations. Depending on the vacancy, an assessment could be part of the process.
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HAL Allergy does not accept unsolicited approaches from recruitment agencies and/or search firms (such as, for instance, the sending of resumes) for any job posted on this or a referring website. All recruitment agencies and search firms are required to contact HAL Allergy Recruitment via recruitment@hal-allergy.com to enquire about a potential recruitment or search agreement with HAL Allergy.
HAL Allergy, for those who seek pharmaceutical innovation
HAL Allergy is one of the European top players in the development, production and distribution of allergen immunotherapies for the treatment and prevention of allergic diseases. We focus on the development and manufacturing of modified allergen extracts for the therapeutic and diagnostic purposes of respiratory and food allergies. With all our activities the patient's well-being is always top of mind. At Hall Allergy we foster open discussions, an entrepreneurial spirit and close collaborations within the teams and with our international colleagues summing up to more than 300 highly specialized people across various positions. If you too would like to become a part of an innovative and challenging pharmaceutical manufacturer, then this is your perfect opportunity!
HAL Allergy is headquartered in Leiden, where all disciplines work under one roof, from development to sales. We work in an informal, culturally diverse organization with room for growth and continued personal development. HAL Allergy is located in the middle of the thriving and energetic Leiden Bio Science Park, the largest innovation district of the Netherlands in the field of Life Sciences & Health. The central train station and the ancient city center of Leiden are just a 5 minute bike ride away from our office.