EDC Coordinator (Fixed-term, 10 months)
Key Skills
Job Description
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.
Core Responsibilities
The EDC Coordinator acts as a link between stakeholders to ensure efficient inbound operations and resolve supply chain deviations. They are responsible for monitoring daily activities, managing nonconforming materials, and driving continuous process improvements.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and possess at least 2 years of experience in a quality function, preferably within the medical or pharmaceutical industry. Proficiency in SAP and Microsoft Office is required, along with strong analytical and coordination skills.
About Getinge
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Company size: 10,001+ employees
At Getinge, we are committed to meet today's health care challenges together with health care providers and be part of improving patients’ lives around the globe. Our offering includes products and solutions for intensive care, cardiovascular procedures, operating rooms, sterile reprocessing and life science. Our journey started in the village of Getinge on the Swedish west coast back in 1904. Today, our operations cover more than 40 countries and we have over 10 000 employees. Every single one of us with the firm belief that saving lives is the best job in the world. Please be aware that LinkedIn is a third-party operated social media site unaffiliated with Getinge. Getinge does not control and is not responsible for the privacy or security policies or practices on this site or any third-party websites that we may link to through this site. We recommend that you carefully review the privacy and security practices of this site and any linked third-party websites. We are not responsible for the accuracy of any information, opinions, claims, or statements posted by our followers or other users of this site. Getinge reserves all rights relating to our account on this site, including, but not limited to, removing postings. While Getinge's product-related advertisement and information is intended to be disseminated only in jurisdictions where the license to market such products has been granted, Getinge has no control over how our posted content is further disseminated through LinkedIn. Therefore, as posts are shared or liked by our followers or other LinkedIn users, we have no control over the geographic reach of such posts, comments, and communications. Please, note the foregoing when reading product-related social media posts and corroborate with local representatives for product licensing.