Workforce Planning Coordinator

YOUR ROLE

As Workforce Coordinating Representative, you play a key role in coordinating the availability of flexible workers across our logistics operations. Rather than creating schedules yourself, you act as the central point of contact between operations, team leaders, and our staffing agency partners to ensure workforce demand and supply are aligned.

Based on operational forecasts, you coordinate workforce requirements and ensure the right number of temporary workers with the required skills are available at the right time. You work closely with operational managers, staffing agencies, and internal stakeholders, translating workforce needs into clear actions and agreements.

Strong communication is essential in this role, as you'll spend a significant part of your day consulting with stakeholders via email and phone, providing updates, advice, and solutions. With up to 1,000 temporary workers active in our Venray warehouses during peak periods, maintaining strong relationships and clear communication with all parties is crucial.

Using data, Excel, and workforce management systems, you monitor trends, identify risks, and provide insights that support decision‑making. Your ability to prioritize, coordinate multiple stakeholders, and work accurately ensures smooth workforce operations and a reliable staffing process.

• Coordinate the flexible workforce requirements for our logistics operations based on demand forecasts.
• Align workforce needs with operational managers and staffing agency partners for the coming 4‑8 weeks.
• Serve as the primary liaison between operations and staffing agencies regarding temporary workforce supply.
• Advise stakeholders on workforce availability, capacity challenges, and potential solutions.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external partners.
• Analyze workforce data and trends to improve future workforce planning and availability.
• Support initiatives that enhance workforce flexibility, such as job rotation and multi‑skilling.
• Contribute to process improvements and the further development of workforce planning tools and systems.

You will work in a team comprising three other Workforce Planners, two Flex Coaches and a Workforce Coordinator. It is a diverse, hardworking team that values your input, working together to achieve goals. You will report to the Workforce Manager.

Work hours span from 06:00 to 19:00 every day of the week. You will work in staggered shifts, including weekends. Naturally, these hours won’t be consecutive, and as a team, you will craft a quarterly schedule, accommodating preferences where possible. Your work locations per week are: 1 day in Heerlen, 1 day in Born and 3 days in Venray.

• MBO level 4 work and thinking level;
• A dynamic, supportive, administrative powerhouse advocating for employees;
• Proficiency in Excel and various systems;
• Stress resilience and assertive attitude;
• Strong social and communication skills, stress resilience, and precision;
• Flexibility in working hours, willingness to work weekends, and access to transportation to reach the location; and
• Fluent in English, both spoken and written.

At CEVA Logistics, there are plenty of opportunities to get the best out of yourself and your career. In addition to a dynamic environment in which we achieve our goals together at a high pace and in a results‑oriented manner, we offer a position with room for fun and connection. This role can be the first step of a broad career path within our organization.

The possibilities to follow your own path are endless!

In addition, we offer you the following:

• A gross monthly salary between € 2.768 and € 3.722 plus 8% holiday pay (classification depending on, among other things, your work experience and level of education);
• A one‑year contract with the prospect of permanent employment;
• 25 vacation days, 5 ADV days and the possibility to buy extra leave;
• Profit sharing of max. 3% for positive company results;
• Travel allowance from 10.0 km home‑work distance;
• Possibilities to work from home (negotiable with your manager);
• Possibilities to participate in our CEVAfit program;
• Possibilities to develop yourself with all kind of tools from our CEVA Academy.

As a global organization, and as part of the CMA CGM Group, diversity is critical to our business success; only when we can reflect the cultures, languages, behaviors and local knowledge of our customers, we can succeed. By employing people with different experiences and abilities, we expand our knowledge and increase our creativity and innovation.