Team Leader Production Planning

This is how you make impact

As a Team Lead Production Planning, you are responsible for leading, coaching, and developing a team of seven Production Planners. Together, you ensure the optimal coordination of people, materials, and production capacity, enabling customer orders to be delivered on time and as agreed.

You play a key role in the further professionalization of the department. You actively guide your team through change, establish and document processes and ways of working, and ensure these are embedded within the organization through training, coaching, and continuous support. You create an environment where collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement are at the heart of everything you do.

Together with your team, you participate in daily management and operational meetings, proactively steering planning, capacity, delivery performance, and customer expectations. Customer satisfaction is always at the center of your approach. Your team works closely with internal customers within the Customer Focus Teams and serves as a crucial link across the organization. You collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders and are responsible for ensuring effective communication and alignment between all parties involved.

This is what we offer

A challenging leadership position within an international high-tech organization where you can directly influence operational performance and customer satisfaction. You will have plenty of room for initiative, process improvement, and personal development, while working alongside enthusiastic colleagues in a dynamic and innovative environment.

In addition, we offer:

• 27 vacation days plus 13 additional ADV days;

• Flexible start and finish times within a day-shift schedule;

• A competitive pension plan;

• A bicycle scheme;

• Various training and development opportunities.

This is what you bring to the team

You are a people-focused and results-driven leader who enjoys creating structure, improving processes, and developing people. You can balance different interests, build strong relationships, and naturally bring stakeholders along in changes and decision-making.

In addition, you have:

• Bachelor's or Master's level working and thinking ability, preferably in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, Business Engineering, or a related field;

• Several years of experience in production planning, supply chain, or logistics within a manufacturing environment;

• Experience leading a team, or a proven ambition to grow into a leadership role;

• Strong analytical skills and a process-oriented mindset;

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels of the organization;

• Fluency in both Dutch and English, spoken and written.

The vacancy is open for internal applications until October 15. Interested? Submit your CV and a brief motivation letter to apply.

Your daily responsibilities include

• Lead, coach, and develop the Production Planning team.

• Monitor, analyze, and optimize production planning, delivery performance, and capacity utilization.

• Identify bottlenecks and initiate structural improvement actions.

• Align production capacity, material availability, and customer demand.

• Maintain and improve logistics master data within the ERP system and related planning tools.

• Collaborating with Manufacturing Performance Teams, Customer Focus Teams, and the Customer Service Center.