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Bristol Myers Squibb Netherlands

Bristol Myers Squibb has been active in the Dutch market for over 50 years, employing people across a range of activities and business units in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

The Netherlands is also home to our first European Cell Therapy facility, located at the Leiden Bio Science Park, the largest life sciences cluster of The Netherlands. This new state of the art facility is focused on commercial manufacturing with capabilities for multi-product Cell Therapy manufacturing. You can become part of this exciting journey. Check out this video if you want to know more about it!

The Netherlands has everything it takes to become the medicines hub of Europe, the so-called Boston by the North Sea. As we continue to expand our footprint by building this new site, we are looking to grow our team.

Would you like to become an important chain in our worldwide network to bring this new personalized treatment to patients suffering from blood cancer? Join us and be a game changer!

For more information about Bristol Myers Squibb Netherlands, visit us at bms.com/nl or careers.bms.com/nl

Position Summary

The Specialist QC Systems and Support – QC Planner is responsible for the maintenance, optimization, and operational support of Quality Control scheduling and planning systems to ensure accurate, efficient, and reliable QC laboratory planning. This role manages QC planning activities in close collaboration with QC laboratories, Site Engineering, Facility Services, LIMS teams, and other key stakeholders.

The Specialist QC Systems and Support – QC Planner provides first‑line troubleshooting for scheduling and planning issues, supports the development, maintenance, and enhancement of QC scheduling and planning systems (including the implementation of system updates), and delivers training to peers on related tools and processes. Key responsibilities include maintaining and updating planning tools to reflect current laboratory practices, managing master data and user access, and ensuring accurate short‑term and long‑term forecasting.

Additional responsibilities include revising and maintaining documentation, supporting projects and continuous improvement initiatives, and contributing to the management of deviations, change controls, and other related QC activities as required.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for maintenance of QC scheduling and planning systems such as SMART QC
• Manage QC planning related tasks in collaboration with QC laboratories, Site Engineering, Facility Services, and other departments
• Implement updates to ensure that the scheduling and planning system reflects current practices
• Training of peers in QC planning  
• Data management in the QC planning tool ( e.g. user management, master data tables)
• Enter data for long-term and short-term forecasts.
• Facilitates issue resolution for planning tool
• Monitor interface between input systems (LIMS) and tool
• Provide support for reporting capabilities of the planning tool
• Periodically verify data such at HOT times, campaign size, etc. which will impact planning and scheduling.
• Periodically verify data such as time spent on unavailable tasks.
• Coordinate with LIMS team to ensure LIMS updates do not have unintended/unpredictable impact to smart QC (no testing delays)
• Maintain QC lab floor presence, ensuring that continuous feedback from all levels of the org is documented and that the scheduling and planning system reflects current practices.
• Provide regular input to QC management regarding QC performance, and identify opportunities for improvements based on data.
• Perform other tasks as required to support the QC laboratories

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Ability to accurately and completely understand, follow, interpret and apply Global Regulatory and cGMP requirements.
• Ability to communicate effectively with peers and management regarding task completion, roadblocks, and needs.
• Attention to detail and demonstrated organizational skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment, meet deadlines and changing priorities.
• Problem-solving ability/mentality, technically adept and logical
• Demonstrated ability to work independently to complete assignments within defined time constraints.
• Ability to execute changes in the lab system independently, proactively identify problems, troubleshoot issues, and develop potential solutions.
• Ability to exercise judgment and makes sound decisions within generally defined practices and policies to independently develop approach/solution. Consult with technical if needed.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively train and assist other less experienced individuals.

Education/Experience/ Licenses/Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific, computer or engineering program area. Combination of education and work experience may be considered (HLO or equivalent).
• 3+ years of relevant laboratory experience or equivalent combination of education and experience, preferably in a regulated environment.
• Proficient knowledge of a lab system such as Smart QC, Empower, LES, LIMS, CIMS, etc., understanding of system interfaces and impact of changes to each other.
• Proficient knowledge and understanding of Microsoft Office Applications (Access, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, Word) and/or other relevant software programs

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On-site Protocol

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Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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