Logistics assistant – Contingency plan

Vacancy Notice N° e57/2015
Logistics assistant – Contingency plan (Grade B4)
Directorate General of Democracy (DG II)
European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM)

Under the authority of the Director of the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare and of the Head of the Reference Standards and Samples Division, the incumbent will develop and implement production plans for the creation of a contingency stock of EDQM Reference standards in the context of EDQM’s secondary site project, with a concern for quality, efficiency and accuracy, and in compliance with Council of Europe’s values and regulations.

Key activities

The incumbent performs the following key duties:

• elaborates, establishes and follows:

o  the production plan (taking account of the production capacity) and needs for materials, including analyses of quantitative and/or qualitative data.

o  the medium-term production plan, taking account of stocks of raw materials, outsourcing, means, production capacities and unforeseeable events, needs for finished products, projected sales and levels of contingency stocks to be produced taking into account the time needed for procurement, batch release involving studies by control laboratories and quality assurance;

o  capacity planning on a daily basis;

• implements production plans;
• co-ordinates the logistical information flows between the various internal entities (production, procurement, distribution, control laboratory, quality);
• keeps up-to-date with the state-of-the-art in technical and technological developments in the areas of logistics and supply chain management, proposes improvements and changes in the supply chain and in supply chain management tools.

Please note that the incumbent may be required to perform other duties not listed in the vacancy notice.

Eligibility Requirements

Only applicants who best meet the following criteria will be considered for shortlisting.

• Qualifications: completed full course of general secondary education followed by a post-secondary diploma in supply chain management or similar.
• Experience: at least 3 years’ professional experience in a similar post including professional experience in the pharmaceutical industry (e.g., filling of powders and liquids, lyophilisation, biologicals).
• Language requirements: a very good knowledge of one of the official languages (English or French) and a good knowledge of the other, in oral and written communication.
• Nationality: nationality of one of the 47 Council of Europe member states.
• Age: under 65 years of age at the closing date of the vacancy notice.

Closing date: 08 June 2015
Location : Strasbourg, France

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