Job Description

At Bavarian Nordic, we are committed to saving and improving lives by unlocking the power of the immune system. Our commercial product portfolio includes market-leading vaccines against smallpox, mpox, rabies, tick-borne encephalitis, typhoid fever, and cholera. We excel in R&D innovation, manufacturing, and commercialization, striving to improve people's health and quality of life worldwide, protecting our tomorrow.

As part of our growth journey, we have built a new Supply Chain organization with a mission to empower Bavarian Nordic’s strategy and growth by ensuring continuous and efficient supply of finished goods.

The role
As S&OE Coordinator, you will play a key role in ensuring the effective execution of supply chain activities by supporting and coordinating the S&OE process. You will act as a central point of contact across functions, helping to align priorities, maintain momentum, and ensure transparency in execution.

You will be responsible for coordinating S&OE meetings, including preparing agendas, consolidating inputs, and following up on key actions and decisions. Through close collaboration with internal stakeholders, you will provide regular updates on order progress, identify potential constraints or risks, and help drive timely resolutions in a dynamic environment. In addition, you will translate operational priorities into concrete executional activities. This includes managing purchase orders with CMOs, supporting inter-site stock movements, and ensuring that materials are correctly allocated to production. A strong focus on data accuracy and system integrity will be essential to enable real-time visibility and informed decision-making across the supply chain. You will continuously monitor order flows and proactively address any delays, discrepancies, or missing information, ensuring smooth and efficient operations.

This role reports to the Senior Director, Head of Global Planning and can be located in Switzerland or Denmark. The role is a fixed term/project based role for two years.

Skills & competencies

• A bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Industrial Engineering, or similar

• Certification such as APICS CPIM or Lean is an advantage, but not required

• Minimum 3 years of experience within supply chain, logistics, procurement, or production planning

• Experience from a GMP-regulated industry is required

• Hands-on experience with ERP systems (e.g., Microsoft Dynamics, SAP) and transactional supply chain processes

• Exposure to S&OE or S&OP processes is considered an advantage

It is crucial that you bring solid understanding of supply chain processes, material flows, and inventory management principles and that you hold strong coordination skills with the ability to manage cross-functional processes effectively. Besides this, we are looking for someone who holds an analytical mindset with the ability to identify process gaps and support continuous improvements. Other relevant skills are:

• Advanced user of Microsoft Excel and standard productivity tools

• Detail-oriented with a high level of accuracy in operational tasks

• Ability to detect discrepancies, investigate root causes, and escalate when necessary

What We Offer
This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the heart of supply chain operations, gaining end-to-end visibility across planning, manufacturing, and distribution. You will develop highly sought-after S&OE and coordination capabilities while playing a key role in ensuring the timely delivery of life-saving vaccines.

Join a growing, purpose-driven company where your work has real impact and your development is a priority.

Caught your interest?
If you are ready to take on a pivotal role in a growing organization and drive meaningful change in healthcare, apply now and join Bavarian Nordic in our mission to improve health outcomes and foster sustainable growth.

We kindly request that headhunters or recruitment agencies refrain from contacting us regarding this position.

Please note that we do not offer any relocation packages for this role.

Founded in 1994, we have +30 years of experience developing life-saving vaccines. We are a global leader in smallpox and mpox vaccines. Our commercial product portfolio contains market-leading vaccines against rabies, tick-borne encephalitis, cholera, typhoid, and Ebola. We are headquartered in Denmark and have manufacturing, research, and sales offices across Europe and North America. Our values – our Bavarian Nordic DNA, as we like to call it – are what guide our actions every day. We act as persistent pioneers, embrace change, value being boosted by the team, and believe in protecting lives every day. If that is also a part of your DNA, we invite you to join us in Bavarian Nordic! Bavarian Nordic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

www.bavarian-nordic.com

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