Supply Planner
Are you energized by balancing demand, supply, capacity and financial outcomes in a complex, project-driven environment? Do you thrive when working across organizational boundaries to create a single, aligned plan?
We are looking for a Supply Planner who operates at the heart of our Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycle for the domain Distribution, working in a matrix organization with other domains and corporate planning.
Your Role
As a Supply Planner, you are responsible for translating demand signals into a realistic, feasible supply plan, taking into account constraints across materials, suppliers, capacity and execution.
In this context, you:
- Translate demand into supply scenarios
- Identify constraints and risks
- Enable cross-functional decision-making within your domain and x-domains
- Support meaningful discussions in monthly S&OP / IBP meetings
Key Responsibilities
1. Supply Planning & Scenario Building
- Develop realistic supply plans based on available capacity, supplier capabilities and network constraints
- Identify critical components and capacity constrain and drive mitigation action
- Identify gaps between demand and supply capability and define mitigation scenarios
- Evaluate trade-offs across service, inventory, cost and working capital
2. Operating in a Matrix Organization
- Work closely with supply planners in and across your domain to align supply plans
- Ensure consistency between local plans and the integrated plan
- Act as a connector between central planning, domains and execution functions
3. IBP / S&OP Participation
- Contribute to the monthly supply planning step within the IBP / S&OP cycle
- Prepare inputs for planning and decision meetings
- Highlight risks, assumptions and decision points
- Ensure alignment between:
- Demand planning
- Supply planning
- Resource/capacity planning
- Financial planning
- Handover decision from S&OP towards S&OE to execute
4. Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with procurement, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, finance and project teams
- Align top-down financial targets with bottom-up operational plans
- Support resolution of supply constraints and operational challenges
- Linking pin with NPI to ensure new product data available in the planning tool and properly embed in the planning process
5. Network & Materials Planning Integration
- Provide visibility on shortages and surpluses across sites and suppliers
- Enable network-level decision making by consolidating planning inputs
- Align with procurement to ensure material availability and supplier performance
- Identify critical components and capacity constrain and drive mitigation action
6. Execution & Plan Translation
- Translate approved supply plans into ERP / execution systems
- Manage plan changes, project updates and supply chain exceptions
- Ensure alignment between tactical plans and operational execution
7. Continuous Improvement & Planning Maturity
- Improve planning processes, data quality and KPI transparency
- Contribute to increasing planning maturity in areas such as:
- Inventory alignment
- Execution prioritization
- Structured decision making
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or a related field
- Experience in supply planning, material planning, S&OP or IBP environments
- Experience in working in a matrix organization and cross-functional teams
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into insights and decisions
- Strong (senior) stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience with ERP and planning tools (e.g. SAP, JDE, Anaplan, or similar)
- Ability to balance short-term execution with mid- to long-term planning
Key Competencies
- Cross-functional collaboration: effectively working across domains and hierarchy levels
- Analytical thinking: translating data into decisions and scenarios
- Influencing without authority: effective in a matrix organization
- Decision-making: balancing trade-offs across service, cost, inventory and capacity
- Process orientation: contributing to structured IBP / S&OP processes
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or related field
- Experience in supply planning, material planning, S&OP or IBP environments
- Experience working in a matrix organization and cross-functional teams
- Strong analytical skills with ability to translate data into insights and decisions
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience with ERP and planning tools (e.g., SAP, JDE, Anaplan or similar)
- Ability to balance short-term execution with mid- to long-term planning
Vanderlande Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanderlande and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanderlande.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with day‑one eligibility in many U.S. roles and employer‑paid protections that reduce out‑of‑pocket exposure. Feedback suggests medical, dental, and vision are a clear strength.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting in the U.S. Feedback suggests this forms a solid pillar of the total rewards package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, sick leave, and paid holidays are characterized as generous relative to peers. Compressed workweek options in some roles further support time away and recovery.
Vanderlande Insights
What We Do
Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses and in the parcel market. Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems are capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in more than 600 airports including 12 of the world’s top 20. More than 52 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and retailers have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions. The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology. Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 7,500 employees, all committed to moving its customers’ businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent. With a consistently increasing turnover of 1.8 billion euros, it has established a global reputation over the past seven decades as a highly reliable partner for future-proof logistic process automation. Vanderlande was acquired in 2017 by Toyota Industries Corporation, which will help it to continue its sustainable profitable growth. The two companies have a strong strategic match, and the synergies include cross-selling, product innovations, and research and development.
