Supply Chain Coordinator

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Job Function:

R&D Operations

Job Sub Function:

Clinical Supply Operations

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description:

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

We are searching for the best talent for Supply Chain Coordinator.

Candidates must already have authorization to work in the country of employment. Immigration sponsorship and relocation support are not available for this position. Candidates authorized to work pursuant to a short-term status (e.g., F-1) who require future immigration sponsorship are not eligible.

Purpose: The Logistics P&T/Supply Chain Coordinator ensures operational readiness for clinical packaging and supply activities by establishing and maintaining accurate SAP master data and transactional data, creating and managing sales orders for packaging campaigns, and enabling the timely receipt of products and components at internal and external sites. The function coordinates the availability of the information and documentation required for receipt, testing, quality assessment and release, and supports compliant and timely execution of clinical supply activities.

You will be responsible for:

Supply planning

• Create and manage sales and purchase orders in SAP for relevant pack types, packaging campaigns and supply activities.

• Create and follow up stability orders and the related logistics activities.

• Provide proactive input to operational planning and follow up delayed deliveries or activities that may affect packaging or supply execution.

• Follow up assigned deliverables and milestones in the Milestone Planning Tool (MPT), ensuring timely completion and escalating potential risks or delays.

• Participate in weekly reliability meetings with internal stakeholders and alignment meetings with P&L vendors to review batch status, discuss operational risks, and follow up on agreed actions to support timely clinical supply execution.

SAP & Master data

• Create and maintain material codes required for clinical packaging and supply activities.
• Create, maintain and verify material, product and logistics master data in SAP.
• Maintain the required master data in MMDS and ensure alignment with SAP and the applicable source information.
• Ensure master data and transactional data are complete, accurate and available before planned receipt, testing, release and packaging activities.
• Identify and resolve master data and order issues with the involved functions and sites.
  
  

Distribution/outbound

• Create delivery notes in SAP for bulk product, packaging material and clinical kits, including the applicable JSC, stability, purchase and sales order flows.
• Coordinate product and component transfers to CMOs and between internal and external sites.
• Follow up proof of delivery for supplies shipped to depots and clinical sites and for components shipped to packaging sites.
• Process goods issue activities in SAP and ensure the applicable shipment information and documentation are available.
• Coordinate shipments of clinical trial materials to depots and between sites in collaboration with Regulatory partners, customs brokers and Trade Compliance.
• Coordinate shipments of clinical kits from Beerse for the frozen platform and organize Early Development shipments to clinical sites in Europe and the United States.
  
  

Inventory/Inbound

• Enable and process the administrative receipt of products and components into CSU stock.
• Maintain and follow up date of manufacture and expiry date information in the applicable systems.
• Process and follow up drug product consumption activities.
• Follow up identification sample test results and ensure the required information is available for inventory and release-related activities.
• Coordinate the availability of purchase orders, shipment information, certificates and other required receipt documentation.
  
  

P&L vendor management

• Prepare pre-alerts and identification sample instructions for incoming products and components at CMOs.
• Enable and process the administrative receipt of products and components into CMO stock.
• Maintain and follow up date of manufacture and expiry date information for CMO-managed stock.
• Follow up identification sample test results for products and components received at CMOs.
• Collaborate with internal pilot plants, IMSC, CMOs and other internal and external partners to resolve receipt, inventory and documentation issues.
  

Narcotics

• Maintain the Beerse R&D narcotics register for the applicable Research and Development departments.
• Perform narcotics stock follow-up, including stock counting and reconciliation.
• Prepare the required periodic narcotics reporting.
• Support internal audits related to the Beerse R&D narcotics register and its records.

 

Additional duties

• Lead-participate in and contribute to process improvement projects within Supply Chain Coordination and related cross-functional processes.
• Act as sponsor for the contractors within the SCC team, Support onboarding of new team members by providing role-relevant compliance orientation, training guidance, and access to applicable standards and procedures.
• Take the lead for follow-up issue management for deviations, investigations, CAPAs, change controls, periodic reviews, and other quality-system processes, ensuring appropriate preventive and corrective actions are defined, tracked, and effectively implemented to uphold operational integrity.

 

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Minimum of a Bachelor degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent relevant experience in supply chain, logistics, operations or a regulated life-sciences environment.
• Practical knowledge of supply chain execution, inventory management, order management and logistics processes in a regulated environment.
•  Good knowledge of GMP, Good Documentation Practices and data integrity principles.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and operational follow-up skills.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional activities, manage priorities and communicate risks clearly in an international environment.
• High level of accuracy and ownership when managing master data, transactional data and controlled documentation.
• Professional working proficiency in English. Dutch is an asset for local operational collaboration.
• SAP for master data, inventory, goods receipt, order and delivery-related activities.
• Microsoft 365 applications, including SharePoint, Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams.
•  Other planning, quality, document management and business systems as required for the assigned activities.

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

  

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

€61,200.00 - €98,210.00

 

 

Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

 

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.