Do you have a logistics background and are you ready for a next step in your career? Do you like the idea of working with colleagues of many different nationalities? Is a positive working environment essential for you? If the answer to these questions is ‘yes’, AbbVie might have your desired job as a Customer Logistics Planner in Zwolle. 

Your role at AbbVie
As Customer Logistics Planner (CLP), you are part of the Customer Logistics department representing the Commercial Affiliates for Supply Chain. The planners provide the highest level of internal and external logistics service with the least cost to the corporation and takes end-to-end responsibilities within the team. The CLP is managing orders from the forecast is received from affiliates until the order is due for departure. They manage process related communication with all stakeholders including affiliates and end customers. In addition, they create and control documents for customs and payment purposes in compliance with AbbVie procedures and Global Law. Other CLP task are: reporting, innovation (finding solutions in complex situations), projects, audit support and supporting other groups within AbbVie.
 
Responsibilities
Your tasks contribute to AbbVie’s success and the health of the patients who are at the heart of our work. That is where you join us and where you can help us realize our ambitions. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
•    Build strong relationships with all stakeholders and gather relevant information on market dynamics. 
•    Manage short term demand fluctuations, monitor, and align the customer driven MAS changes, manage customer orders and re-supply orders, create (pre-) shipment documentation, and monitor any slow non-moving inventory to avoid obsolescence e.g. 
•    Follow up and resolve any customer (order) holds (Financial/Quality) and identify improvement opportunities. 
•    Maintain ERP/DRP parameters (Customer Master Data) and initiate pricing condition set-up in ERP system to support flawless and cost-effective demand and order planning.
•    Chair/support periodical business reviews with the affiliates/regional. 
•    Set up and maintain Shipping Profiles and Customer Profiles.

Where you work
As part of the AbbVie Logistics organization in Zwolle we collectively ensure that our medicines are manufactured in the right quantity, delivered to the right place, at the right time and to the right person. AbbVie’s motto: We inspire hope and transform lives every day. Do you want to know more about AbbVie Logistics? Watch our movie on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf6scBVAyR8

Why AbbVie?
AbbVie has been at the top of the global 'Best Workplaces' list for several years in a row. We are proud of this!
Join us at AbbVie, where medicine, aesthetics, and science are powered by some of the brightest minds in the world.
We are a dynamic biopharmaceutical company that offers you the resources you need and a global reach that empowers your innovative mindset. From day one, we’ve known it takes teamwork, passion, and a culture built on diversity and inclusion to develop scientific breakthroughs, innovative pipelines, and treatments that change millions of people’s lives around the world. In short, we know it takes you to make those groundbreaking advancements happen.
Are you looking for a relentless dedication to creating an environment where you will do your best, most innovative work? We offer that. Complex challenges that allow you to improve lives on a global scale? We offer that too. A meaningful career where your continuous learning and development are top priorities? Well, we offer that too.
Welcome to AbbVie. Ready to innovate together?
 

What we ask
•    Bachelor or Master degree preferably in Logistics or Business Management
•    > 3 years’ experience in a similar environment
•    Experienced with ERP systems, preferably SAP
•    Networking skills, to create the networks needed to leverage on and improve business processes across the supply chain
•    Team skills with focus on improvement and strong drive for results
•    Strong analytical skills for KPI analyses and process improvements
•    Excellent written English communication skills are required, additional languages are preferred
•    Proven strong problem solving, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
•    Proactive, persistent, and resilient

You have a right to work for the Netherlands (no sponsorship offered) and live at reasonable distance from our Zwolle office (hybrid working model, 60% onsite).

Questions?
Would you like further information before applying? That is quite understandable. Please send your question(s) to Barbara Razenberg, barbara.razenberg@abbvie.com

Agency disclaimer 
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