Production Planner

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The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Production Planer

Location: Aalten Netherlands

Package includes: Salary €38,000 a year and access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing and everyday life.

Contract: One-year fixed-term contract with the possibility of extension to a permanent position. 31 hours per week.

Germains Seed Technology stands out in the seed treatment sector, delivering advanced solutions such as Prime, Pellet, Filmcoat, and Health technologies that optimize germination, consistency, and yield. Backed by three R&D centres and active in eight locations across Europe and the US, Germains works closely with customers to deliver innovative and effective results.

As a Production Planner based in the Netherlands, you will coordinate the flow of orders through our production processes, ensuring accurate and on-time delivery. This role involves working with teams across customer service, sales, and production, requiring effective organizational skills, clear communication, and adept decision-making to support efficient planning and continuous improvement.

Some key responsibilities will include:
- Coordinating the flow of orders through production
- Managing and planning multiple production steps using Excel and order management systems
- Ensuring accuracy in critical data such as seed numbering systems.
This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in an environment and wants to contribute efficiently to supply chain operations.

Skills and Experience

We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match the job description. Your skills and motivation are what truly matter to us. We value our diverse workforce and believe that our inclusive culture creates an environment where everyone can thrive.
- Education at HBO level or equivalent, preferably in supply chain, logistics, or a related technical field
- Previous experience in planning, logistics, customer service, or back-office roles involving data entry and order management
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel – needed to effectively plan, monitor, and update production schedules.

Rewarding your Passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

Germains Seed Technology's mission is to ‘maximise nature’s potential’ by using its seed technology processing know-how and deep expertise to unlock the genetic potential of seeds for food production. At a time when pressure on land, water and resources is greater than at any time in human history, Germains exists to help our customers maximise the productivity and cost-effectiveness of their crops. Our team of around 200 people work across the USA, Europe and the UK.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them

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Questions about this role?

If you have any questions about this role or need help applying please contact Lourdes Villalba via [email protected].

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We work with a number of external partners to ensure that our application process is as comfortable as possible, regardless of your circumstances or background.

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