Vein to Vein Planner - Sunday to Wednesday (4 × 10-hour shifts)

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function:

Supply Network Planning

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

About the role

The Vein‑to‑Vein (V2V) organization plays a critical role in delivering life‑saving cell therapies by ensuring the end‑to‑end orchestration of patient material—from collection to infusion—across a complex, global Autologous Cell Therapy supply chain. 

As a V2V planner – Weekend, you will serve as a flexible, dynamic resource supporting our EMEA network, with a strong focus on planning and logistics support during weekends and off-hours. You will provide active planning oversight, monitor inbound and outbound activities, and act as an escalation point for operational disruptions to protect on-time delivery for patients. You will collaborate broadly across internal and external teams to maintain network stability, ensure operational readiness, and support the daily rhythm of the end-to-end patient order journey.

New way of working – sustainable weekend model. This position is part of a new V2V EMEA working model designed to combine business continuity with team wellbeing as our weekend activities grow. It follows a compressed four-day workweek of 4 × 10-hour shifts, with a broad overlap with the standard week so we keep our ‘one team’ culture, broaden coverage of operational hours, and reduce weekend and evening stand-by calls. This posting covers Model 1: Sunday to Wednesday (4 × 10-hour shifts).

Key Responsibilities

Planning & Logistics Support

• Provide active planning oversight during weekdays, weekends and off-hours.

• Monitor inbound and outbound activities and manufacturing progress, including re-scheduling when required.

• Act as an escalation point for operational disruptions.

• Ensure seamless handover between weekend planning, scheduling, and management teams.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Coordinate with Quality, Couriers, Global Planning, Commercial, LC/WH, Manufacturing, and other supporting teams.

• Serve as the Supply Chain point of contact for treatment sites and commercial teams from a logistics, planning, and forecasting perspective.

• Participate in or lead special projects focused on process optimization, system readiness, scalability, and continuous improvement.

Execution & Risk Mitigation

• Execute contingency plans to protect on-time delivery.

• Support material movement across the V2V supply chain for EMEA patients.

• Support ad-hoc inbound and outbound patient material movements, communicate with couriers, and provide updated forecasts reflecting changes.

Systems, Reporting & Documentation

• Apply strong system knowledge and problem-solving skills (e.g. EU2, COI/C, ATSM, CCM).

• Create invoices, run reports, manage user and site creation, and provide courier supporting documentation.

• Develop and track operational metrics.

• Update WIs, SOPs, and manuals.

• Support site certification activities.

• Communicate operational risks, constraints, or delays proactively to team members and leadership.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or demonstrated equivalent experience in Supply Chain, Life Sciences, or Cell & Gene Therapy required.

Required Skills & Experience

• At least 4 years of relevant experience.

• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes.

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills across all levels of the organization.

• Ability to summarize and present complex operational information clearly.

• Familiarity with critical issue management and resolution frameworks.

• Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and development, with a positive can-do mindset.

Preferred

• Planning, scheduling, or customer-facing experience.

• ERP system experience (SAP or similar) and familiarity with V2V systems (e.g. EU2, COI/C, ATSM, CCM).

• Logistics or transportation experience.

• Experience in launch, scale-up, or start-up environments.

Other Requirements

• Ability to work a compressed four-day workweek of 4 × 10-hour shifts, Sunday to Wednesday, supporting weekend and off-hours V2V operations across EMEA.

• This role operates within a new V2V EMEA weekend working model (12-month pilot with interim evaluation); the position is offered on a permanent contract.

 

 

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