Material Planning Analyst
Vanderlande is a global leader in logistics process automation, specializing in automated material handling systems for airports, warehouses, and parcel operations. Our innovative solutions help move millions of products and pieces of luggage around the world every day. With a strong focus on technology, collaboration, and continuous improvement, we are committed to delivering reliable solutions for our customers while providing meaningful career opportunities for our employees.
Supply chain runs on systems that rarely fit together as well as they should. Planners and buyers fill the gaps by hand, and that manual work sets the ceiling on what the team can do. This role exists to raise that ceiling.
You work alongside the material management team, learn how the domain actually operates, and build the data models, applications, and automation that change how the work gets done. You write the queries, build the tool, put it in front of the people who will use it, and change it based on what you learn. Half the job is data and software. The other half is judgment about supply chain, earned by sitting with the people who run it.
This is a builder role with a seat close to the operation. You own problems end to end, from framing what is actually wrong to shipping and maintaining the answer.
Understand the domain: Learn how material flows through the business, where decisions are made, and where the current process depends on people compensating for tooling. Bring that understanding into every design choice you make.
Model the data: Establish reliable, shared definitions for the metrics the team runs on, so that reporting and decisions come from a single source of truth.
Build: Develop solutions on Databricks and the Power Platform that go into daily use. Take responsibility for them once they are live, which includes monitoring, fixing, and iterating.
Improve the process: Measure how the work happens today and propose changes with evidence behind them. Some answers are software. Some are a changed step, a clearer rule or a new process all together.
Work across teams: Partner with the teams that material flow touches, and translate between what the operation needs and what the systems can do.
Useful but not required
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Vanderlande is a market-leading, global partner for future-proof logistic process automation in the warehousing, airports and parcel sectors. Its extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology.
The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements.
Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 11,000 employees and a turnover of 2.3 billion euros.
Toyota Industries Corporation (TICO) acquired Vanderlande in 2017 to cement its global leading position within material handling. It aims to achieve this by increasing its presence in all integrated and automated projects, and capitalising on the synergies between the organisations and the added value they offer to the market.
TICO therefore launched the Toyota Automated Logistics Group (TALG), which consists of Toyota L&F, Bastian Solutions, Vanderlande and viastore. TALG is a global partner for integrated logistic process automation, with its group companies collaborating under the guiding principle: for every challenge, a reliable solution.
In May 2025, Vanderlande completed the acquisition of Siemens Logistics' operations outside the USA and in doing so welcomed more than 2,000 new employees. The acquisition supports the company’s strategic ambition to accelerate its growth in automated logistics, particularly strengthening its capacity to deliver baggage, cargo and digital airport solutions.
