Description
Functional planner/Leiden, Netherlands/7 Months Contract/36 to 55 EUR (Per Hour)
For Janssen Infectious Diseases and Vaccines the client are looking for a hands-on Functional Planner. They need a candidate with prior pharma industry experience, or a similarly complex and regulatory based sector.
The Company
Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886.
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Set up and maintenance of project schedules to ensure completion of deliverables within the department strategy
- Support creating and maintaining schedules with timelines, milestones, FTE's, and OOP's (CAPEX and OPEX) based on information from representatives of the other departments.
- Support analysing critical path and schedule risk
- Support scenario development for improvement on timelines and/or budget
- Supporting Project Management Organization by providing cross-functional project plan alignment, schedule risk analysis and suggestions for improvement on timelines
- Updating files in company-specific software tool and supplying them with a VPAD project budget (FTE and OOP's)
- Aligns internally to link activities to Clinical Trials, Interim reports etc.
- Assist departmental heads by generating supply vs demand overviews, resource loading analysis and suggestions for improvement on resource allocation
- Set up and maintenance of Resource Supply Data in planning tool (based on 1-supply) on a VPAD level in collaboration with Departmental Heads
KEY COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:
- Ability to be able to collect, consolidate, analyze, summarize and report on large volumes of supply chain data.
- Application knowledge of business planning and control systems.
- Ability to be able to benchmark and continuously improves business planning and supply chain management processes.
- Must have very good interpersonal, organizational and communication skills.
- Ability to be able to operate in a collaborative and cross-functional organization.
- Customer focused ensuring that customer requirements are clearly planned for and communicated within the organization.
- Innovative in the development and design of supply chain processes and systems.
- Very good problem solving and resolution implementation skills.
- Result and performance driven.
- Highly motivated, adaptable and flexible.
- Strong planning and organizational skills.
EXPERIENCE:
- Must have experience in project planning in a pharmaceutical environment.
- Fluent in English (Dutch is a plus)
- Experience in MS Project (Primavera is a plus)
- Qualification in a Business discipline or qualification in supply chain management or equivalent combination of experience and education is a plus
- Experience in the implementation, development and execution of business planning and control systems is a plus
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