Co-Packing Operations Coordinator

The company: Our client is a global food and beverage company committed to bringing health through food to as many people as possible. With leading brands across Dairy, Plant-Based, Waters, and Specialized Nutrition, the company combines innovation, sustainability, and science to create healthier products for consumers worldwide.

Role Description: As a Co-Packing Operations Coordinator, you will be responsible for supporting and stabilising ongoing co-packing activities across the Benelux region. You will act as the primary operational contact for day-to-day activities, coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, and ensure operational issues are effectively resolved. You will also review existing co-packing processes, identify improvement opportunities, and support initiatives to enhance efficiency, capacity, service levels, and sustainability.

Responsibilities: Maintain smooth daily co-packing operations across the Benelux region and act as the primary operational contact for urgent issues. Coordinate with Logistics, Planning, Customer Service, Marketing, Procurement, Quality, and external co-packing partners to ensure effective communication and issue resolution. Manage and close open operational topics with co-packing partners, ensuring requests, priorities, deadlines, and dependencies are properly tracked.

Prepare and facilitate governance meetings, providing clear visibility of operational requests, actions, timelines, and progress. Maintain co-packing documentation and system records, including instruction cards, specifications, sign-offs, price lists, and supplier information. Manage SAP master data, including BOMs, purchase orders, and sourcing information, and escalate issues where required. Create a detailed overview of current co-packing activities, assessing effort, timing, complexity, workload, and capacity.

Identify quick wins and structural improvement opportunities to accelerate processes, reduce costs, improve service levels, and support sustainability objectives. Document improvement initiatives and develop a roadmap for future enhancements and the transfer of administrative responsibilities.

Requirement: Proven experience in supply chain, logistics, co-packing, or operational project management. Strong analytical and process-mapping skills, with the ability to assess workload, capacity, timing, and operational complexity. Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and coordination skills across internal teams and external partners. Ability to challenge existing processes and translate analysis into practical recommendations and improvements.

Experience with continuous improvement initiatives, process optimisation, or organisational assessments. Proficiency in SAP and Microsoft 365, including purchase orders, master data, reporting, and documentation. Knowledge of co-packing operations or excise processes is advantageous.

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