GMP Supply Chain Scheduling Specialist

A leading, highly regulated life-sciences organization with a large European operations and distribution hub. The site supports labelling, packaging, warehousing, and international shipment of medicines to many global markets, working with complex supply chains, short lead times, and strict quality standards. For its on-site operations team in the Netherlands (Breda area), the company is looking for a GMP Supply Chain Scheduling Specialist. This role focuses on building and maintaining short-term production schedules for packaging lines, coordinating priorities across stakeholders, and ensuring stable, on-time supply to patients.

The GMP Supply Chain Scheduling Specialist works closely with manufacturing, quality, warehouse, and supply chain teams, while supporting KPI tracking and continuous improvement. Responsibilities include creating and managing short-term production schedules for packaging lines to support reliable supply; converting demand and operational inputs into executable plans, aligning orders, materials, and production capacity; coordinating phase-in/phase-out activities, product changes, and launch-related planning where applicable; identifying and removing operational 'flow stoppers' by driving cross-functional actions and follow-up; participating in daily operational meetings to monitor execution, performance, and key risks; facilitating weekly capacity discussions to ensure plans are realistic and aligned with site constraints; tracking and reporting weekly/monthly performance metrics (e.g., schedule stability) and driving improvement actions; contributing to standardisation, simplification, and automation of planning processes (including participation in cross-functional projects); supporting root-cause investigations and continuous improvement initiatives in a regulated environment (GMP/GDP); and maintaining strong collaboration and communication across planning, manufacturing, quality, and logistics stakeholders.

Requirements include a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in supply chain, business, engineering, science, or a related field; experience in supply chain planning and/or production scheduling; strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to work cross-functionally; analytical problem-solving capability (including supporting root-cause analysis); experience in a regulated environment (GMP/GDP) is a plus; interest in process standardisation and automation; exposure to tools such as Tableau, Smartsheet, Databricks, or RPA is an advantage; and willingness to work on-site several days per week.

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