Freelance PLM Coordinator (ZZP)

Introduction to the job

In this role, you work for the Product Lifecycle Management department (within Sourcing & Procurement organization) as part of a cross-departmental R&D team. This means you’ll be balancing a broad range of stakeholders both from within your cross-functional project team and from the supply chain management department. You’ll be supporting technology-driven development projects by finding creative supply chain solutions that not only meet your stakeholders needs but also help bring the supply chain management department to the next level.

If you are ready for a second or third step in your career in the Supply Chain sector, this role would be perfect for you!

Role and responsibilities

The parts life cycle management department prides itself on its tight collaboration with other departments and teams across the company, and for securing material availability without fail. Specific responsibilities for this role include:

• Creating a project plan and maintaining it

• * Incorporating logistics requirements into designs

• * Ordering materials in order to ensure availability

• * Conducting logistics risk analyses

• * Securing and allocating financial resources for packaging and customer tooling

• Proactively managing materials availability by making sure the bill of material (raw materials list) and technical product drawings required for a particular part are available on schedule

• * Creating transparent parts supply and demand schedules

• * Creating decision sheets for late materials

• * Determining the consequences that proposed plan changes have on the supply chain

• Creating, aligning, and monitoring implementation plans for engineering changes, while safeguarding the impact on material timing, cost and quality

• Contributing to the further development of the product life cycle management department

People are our single most valuable asset. In product life cycle management, our management team works with our project coordinators to help develop both their hard and soft skills through dedicated training programs. We keep an eye on their progress through a transparent training matrix dashboard.

Working Environment

A total of 100> people currently work in the Product Lifecycle Management department, divided over four business lines. You’ll be part of a team of 8–12 project coordinators, headed by a team lead, who will guide your personal development and oversee the development of processes within their team. Your team lead reports to a group leader, who in turn reports to the department director. The department’s other two teams include one team of operationally-focused product life cycle management project leaders, and one team of strategically-focused supply chain management project leaders.

Meetings

Being ‘in the middle’ between R&D teams and supply chain management means you’ll spend a significant amount of time in meetings with various stakeholders. You can expect to be a part of the following types of meetings:

• Development and engineering (R&D) project meetings;

• Calls with suppliers to align on materials availability and planning;

• ‘Escalation’ meetings as part of a ‘tiger team’ managing urgent materials issues;

• Alignment meetings with system integration teams and production planning teams to discuss challenges in building prototypes and pilots;

• Alignment meetings to manage engineering changes related to introducing new materials in our supply chain, factories and customer locations.

Stakeholders

• Inner circle: team leaders and project managers from both product life cycle management and supply chain management.

• Middle circle: R&D project managers, supplier quality engineers, manufacturing engineers, customer support engineers and supply coordinators.

• Outer circle: configuration change specialists, sourcing leads, purchasers, logistics supply managers and field modification planners.

Education and experience

• MSc in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Supply Chain / Logistics

• Up to 7 years of experience in planning, logistics processes and quality in a high-tech, low-volume environment, and in ramping up new products

• Experience as a project engineer in a high-tech, low volume environment (e.g. supply chain engineering; production engineering)

• Experience in process development and IT-related process automation

• Experience in driving improvements

Skills

• Result-oriented skills

• * Assertive, proactive problem solving skills

• * Ensuring accountability

• * Strong planning and alignment skills

• Social and communication skills

• * Stakeholder management 

• * Customer focus

• * Persuasion skills

• * Collaboration; team player orientation

• * Able to manage ambiguity

• * Resilience