With a passion for life
Join our diverse teams of passionate people and a career that allows you to develop both personally and professionally. At Getinge we exist to make life-saving technology accessible for more people. To make a true difference for our customers – and to save more lives, we need team players, forward thinkers, and game changers.
Are you looking for an inspiring career? You just found it.
Become our new EDC Coordinator (Fixed-term, 10 months)
As an EDC Coordinator, you will play a key role in ensuring smooth and efficient inbound operations within our European Distribution Center (EDC). Working closely with our 3PL warehouse partner, internal factories, and the EMEA Supply Planning team, you will drive issue resolution, support operational excellence, and contribute to continuous process improvements
Your challenge
In this role, you are the link between multiple stakeholders across the supply chain. Through effective coordination, problem-solving, and continuous improvement, you help ensure that inbound processes run efficiently, deviations are resolved effectively, and operational performance continuously improves.
What will you do?
- Review and investigate inbound deviations and actively drive corrective and preventive actions together with our 3PL warehouse operator, internal factories, and the EMEA Supply Planning team.
- Ensure that Nonconforming Material Reports are raised with the Technical Product Owner when suspect nonconforming materials are identified.
- Monitor daily inbound activities, including internal and external repacking processes, and take action when activities are not completed within agreed timelines.
- Analyze inbound deviations and identify opportunities to improve operational performance and reduce recurring issues.
- Proactively inform the EMEA Supply Planning team and other relevant stakeholders about open EDC-related issues and risks.
- Initiate and coordinate improvement actions aimed at reducing deviations caused by key suppliers and recurring root causes.
- Participate in collaboration and continuous improvement meetings with internal manufacturing sites and other supply chain stakeholders.
- Support operational excellence by participating in improvement activities and developing solutions for operational challenges.
- Investigate, review, and approve inventory adjustment requests while ensuring relevant stakeholders are informed.
- Coordinate damage investigations together with the Technical Product Owner and drive timely disposition decisions.
- Manage carrier complaints and claims for supplier shipments arriving damaged at the 3PL warehouse.
Knowledge, skills and experience
- Bachelor degree or equal through experience;
- Language skills: English, Dutch is an advantage;
- Minimum experience of 2 years in a quality function preferably within medical devices or pharmaceutical industry
- Experience within the medical industry is an advantage;
- Strong in automated data processing and experience with SAP
- Must be a proficient user of Microsoft Office products or equivalent software applications.
About us
With a firm belief that every person and community should have access to the best possible care, Getinge provides hospitals and life science institutions with products and solutions aiming to improve clinical results and optimize workflows. The offering includes products and solutions for intensive care, cardiovascular procedures, operating rooms, sterile reprocessing and life science. Getinge employs over 12,000 people worldwide and the products are sold in more than 135 countries.
Reasonable accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.