Material Planner Olen

Date: Oct 10, 2025

Location: Olen, BE, 2250

Company: Belden, Inc

Belong. Believe. Be You. Belden.

Propel your career surrounded by a diverse team of innovative, goal-oriented individuals who are pursuing the next generation of connectivity solutions. At Belden, you’ll participate in work that will challenge you and position you to excel. You’ll collaborate with colleagues from around the world, gaining exposure to a broad base of expertise and perspectives.

Together, we’ll continue on a journey of innovation, creating a connected world and paving the way for automation. Join us and let’s build the future.

 

Job summary

As material planner you are responsible that raw materials and trading goods are available on time for order fulfilment.

The Belden Olen plant is the Center of Excellence for project deliveries. From the CoE in Olen we deliver products but mainly projects across the globe. This means that as a material planner, you also need to keep track of standard materials but also project specific (one-off) materials.

The ERP system (Navision) is the main tool for you to identify material needs, initiate ordering of raw materials and start pull-in/push out actions.

As a result, you realize inventory optimization by making sure that we have the right quantity of products available (not too many, not too few) at the moment that these are needed.

 

Tasks and objectives

On-time material availability and optimized inventory levels are your key objectives

You run material resource planning in ERP system (Navision)

You initiate purchase orders towards vendors

You drive pull-in/push out actions for deliveries from vendors

You continuously try to improve the process by optimizing key material planning parameters

You work closely together with:

  • the demand planner who follows up on overall customer demand
  • the strategic buyer to improve supplier performance and in case of supply escalations

 

Skills and competencies

  • Bachelor in supply chain management or similarMin. of 3 years experience in material planning, operational procurement, and inventory management
  • Very good knowledge of ERP-System and MS Excel
  • Demonstrate a pro-active, flexible, and pragmatic approach
  • Strong organizational and analytical skills, ability to work under time pressure
  • Detail oriented
  • Business level Dutch and English

Let’s Write the Next 100 Years Together.
Join a global community striving to improve connectivity and security. The work we’re doing puts our people on the front lines of impacting lives and shaping the future. Propel your story of innovation by helping Belden write the next chapter in ours. Shape your future at Belden.

 

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