Working in production planning and ready for your next step? Do you have a master’s degree and enjoy working in an international, high-tech environment? We’d love to meet you!
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Bram Frings, Recruitment, bram.frings@cpp.canon
Production Planner
40 hours per week, hybrid in Venlo (NL)
What You’ll Do
Our Manufacturing Supply Chain team develops and improves lean supply chains. We make sure parts arrive on time for assembly and our customers get the right printing products when they need them.
You’ll create production plans that support customer demand but at the same time are realistic for our assembly factory. Here’s what you’ll focus on:
- Create production and delivery plan that ensures delivery performance to Canon regions, while keeping the inbound supply chain as stable as possible and safety stocks at minimum levels.
- Provide tactical input for S&OP, creating production plans up to 18 months ahead.
- Set up and maintain the production planning parameters for your portfolio, including SAP working methods and connection rates.
- Keep ATP stocks worldwide to a minimum and work on stock level improvements.
- Work on short-term realization of the production planning and realize the planned customer deliveries.
- Proactively initiate improvement opportunities and manage supply chain goals and bottlenecks.
Who You’ll Work With
Manufacturing is responsible for the manufacturing and in time delivery of ‘best-in- class’ high mix low volume Canon Production Printing products within the Canon Organization.
As a Production Planner at CPP, you’ll work with colleagues across our global organization and supply chain, from the shop floor to management. You’ll stay in close contact with Canon sales regions and our manufacturing teams, and work with our Business Unit, inbound planning, Procurement, Industrial Engineering, Quality and R&D. You’ll join an outbound supply chain management team of around 10 production planners, both with a tactical and/or operational focus.
What You Bring
You’re a hands-on team player with strong analytical skills and a track record of solving problems. You enjoy putting theory into practice and spending time on the shop floor. You communicate clearly, connect easily with people and build a network that helps you get things done and improve processes.
Bachelor’s or master’s degree, preferably in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration or comparable
- About 3-7 years work experience in a relevant role within a production/assembly environment
- Experience with lean manufacturing, production planning and working with customers.
- Ideally, experience introducing new products in a manufacturing environment.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills in English. A strong command of Dutch is an advantage.
- Ambitious and driven to achieve results, decisive
- Excellent communication and presentation skills in English. Profound knowledge of Dutch is highly advantageous
- Permissioned to work in the Netherlands
- You have an affinity with digital technologies, IT and AI, and are curious about how these developments can contribute to engineering, manufacturing and process improvement
What You’ll Get From Us
You’ll join a workplace with plenty of room to grow, both personally and professionally. Here’s what we offer:
We offer you a challenging job where you collaborate with interdisciplinary and cross-functional teams throughout the value chain and the organization and deliver direct impact to our customer deliveries. A unique opportunity to enhance world-class manufacturing for new products in which the rules have yet to be fully defined. We invite you to join in to pave the road towards new planning methodologies and maturing S&OP processes.
Besides a challenging working environment, with scope for personal and professional development you will receive an interesting package of employment conditions;
- A competitive salary (range €4.400- €6.350 gross per month)
- 38 vacation days
- 13th month bonus (8.6%) until end of 2026 paid either monthly or yearly. As of 1 January 2027 the 13th-month bonus will be discontinued, which means that as of that date the 13th-month bonus will be fully converted to the (scale) salary.
- Holiday allowance (8%)
- Commuting allowance
- Hybrid working for a healthy work-life balance
- A huge range of training and professional development opportunities
- A laptop and smartphone
- An interesting lease (e-)bike plan