Senior Supply Chain Planner CAR-T

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson, and Legend Biotech USA Inc., have entered a global, strategic collaboration to develop, manufacture, and commercialize a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. This innovative strategic partnership is designed to combine the strengths and expertise of two companies to advance the promise of an immunotherapy CAR-T platform and investigational treatment.

CAR-T is an advanced therapy that uses the patient's own immune system to fight the disease. The patient's T-cells are genetically modified to eliminate cancer cells. This cutting-edge, innovative technology offers a hopeful outlook to patients for whom other therapies have no or insufficient effect.

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Senior Supply Chain Planner CAR-T, located in Beerse, Belgium. This dynamic role is a member of the Advanced Therapies Supply Chain and will be heavily involved in the scaling of our EU CAR-T facilities and maturing of our planning & logistic processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate end-to-end material flows and manage logistic operations across CAR-T sites
• Orchestrate and partner with different supply chain functions to mitigate supply constraints, implement process improvements and manage complexities
• Support and/or lead E2E planning and logistic projects
• Act as external planning lead, ensuring material availability, providing forecasts and reviewing supplier performance
• Act as the material logistics business lead, partnering with IT to develop and deploy system solutions that support new material flows and improve operational efficiency
• Support digital capability building to make the planning process more automated, efficient, and robust.
• Additional responsibilities that fit your personal development plan will follow

Qualifications

Education:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is required, preferably with a focus in Engineering or Supply Chain

Required:

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in a relevant supply chain field (eg. planning, logistics)
• Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to work across organizational boundaries through influence and partnership
• Proficient written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to synthesize and present complex information
• Ability to work in ambiguous and changing environment
• Flexible to work on different things that need to get done

Preferred:

• Experience in Planning/Scheduling processes (incl. SAP)
• Experience in Project management
• Affinity with digital tools (PowerBI, Alteryx, ..)
• Supply Chain or Six Sigma Certification (e.g. APICS, Green Belt, ...)

Hybrid Wor