Product Planner | Amgen | Breda, Netherlands
Shape the Future of Global Healthcare
At Amgen, every role contributes to our mission of serving patients worldwide. As a Product Planner, you will play a critical role in ensuring the uninterrupted supply of life-changing medicines to patients across 75 countries.
This position sits at the heart of the global supply chain, where you will oversee strategic and tactical supply planning, balance inventory targets, optimise production capacity, and collaborate with stakeholders across multiple international teams. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment where data-driven decisions directly impact patient outcomes, this could be your next challenge.
What You'll Do
As Product Planner, you will be responsible for managing supply plans for assigned products and production lines while ensuring a stable, efficient supply network.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own tactical and strategic supply planning activities across short-, mid-, and long-term horizons.
- Manage product and production line planning within RapidResponse (Kinaxis RR).
- Develop and maintain robust supply plans that support business objectives and patient demand.
- Collaborate closely with manufacturing sites, resource owners, and global supply chain teams.
- Participate in key planning forums including inventory, production, and supply review meetings.
- Identify supply risks, opportunities, inventory challenges, and mitigation strategies.
- Proactively manage inventory levels while balancing cost, service, and working capital objectives.
- Perform scenario analysis to support business decisions and strategic planning.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives and contribute to operational excellence.
- Conduct root-cause analyses and lead corrective actions for planning deviations and constraints.
- Support product launches, lifecycle management activities, and phase-out strategies.
What We're Looking For
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven experience within end-to-end Supply Chain Planning and Operations.
- Experience working in a regulated industry such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, food & beverage, biotechnology, or ingredients manufacturing.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience with continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean and Six Sigma.
- Proactive and results-driven approach.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Ability to influence decisions and drive initiatives through to completion.
- End-to-end supply chain mindset.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with SAP.
- Experience with Kinaxis RapidResponse (RR).
- Exposure to global supply chain environments.
- Experience supporting product launches and supply network optimisation.
