Catalent Pharma Solutions Hiring for Director, IT – ERP Functional Process Lead at Somerset, New Jersey Full Time

Job Description

Position Overview:

Catalent hires people with a passion to make a difference to the health of millions of people globally. Your expertise, coupled with Catalent’s advanced technologies and collaboration with thousands of innovative pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare companies, will help bring life-enhancing products to the people you know and love. Your talents, ideas and passion are essential to our mission; to develop, manufacture and supply products that help people live better, healthier lives. Interested in learning more about life at Catalent? Start here (http://www.catalent.com/index.php/about-us/Catalent-Careers2)

The Director of IT ERP Functional Processes will oversee the Global ERP business model and BU specific templates in our Global JDE ERP platform. This role will be responsible for functional and technical teams to drive continuous improvement of our ERP business process and engage with global business process owners to drive further improvements in our global ERP platform. She/He will lead and coordinate ERP functional team on the functional & technical design and development of existing and new enhancements. In addition, support and lead, when needed, ERP deployments, as well as set measurable goals and deadlines for ERP team. This role maintains contact with business stakeholders and IT leadership to ensure the project aligns with our digital strategy, technology governance and delivers business outcomes on scope, schedule, and cost. The Director is also responsible for continuing to improve functional and technical solutions that help maintain and improve our ERP business processes.

A key aspect of this role will be to collaborate with the global ERP team on future IT roadmaps for all Digital solutions including design, architecture, development milestones, and resource allocation in support of our ERP strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Establishes partnerships of trust and confidence by providing sound functional & technical guidance to all Catalent businesses and key stakeholders

• Participates in ERP ideation, enhancements, and demand planning to build short and long-term technology project plans (forecasts) and roadmaps

• Sponsors and directs architecture governance processes to enable Sr. IT leadership to direct investment towards strategically and financially appropriate activities

• Works closely with business sponsors to ensure ERP business processes and development activities are in alignment with business objectives

• Leads the functional ERP team in managing and improving our ERP business processes across our business unit JDE templates. Leads the activities of the ERP functional team and development team, including forecasting, time tracking, vacation planning, goal setting, employee evaluation and career development

• Effectively communicates clear, concise, and accurate statuses of ERP programs to project sponsors, steering committees, IT organization, deployment teams etc.

• Manage IT ERP deployments to ensure GXP and SOX compliant activities following Catalent’s project standards

• Provides leadership and hands-on experience to ERP project teams at all stages of development activities. This includes the creation of designs, data models, application code, user documentation, online help facilities and testing plans. Provides full guidance to the project team in all phases of the design and development lifecycle

• Ensures on-time and feature-complete delivery of deployment and enhancement projects

• Lead ERP deployments programs as needed, and ensure ERP system implementation meets stakeholder expectations and aligns with our global ERP template

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience

• Minimum of 7 years of experience leading in ERP functional and development activities/teams, including technical architecture, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development

• Experience working in life sciences industry with hands on support for ERP and other GxP systems

• Experience in SDLC Processes, GxP Change management and Agile Methodologies

• Experience in deployment of ERP systems, specifically in Oracle JDE platform

• Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing tools to evolving business and operating models

• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting architecture and applications teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt

• Leading to budget and to schedule in high pressure production environments

• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and processing environments

• Knowledge of various aspects of an enterprise technology, ERP systems and business process improvement

• Knowledge of ERP system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps)

• Excellent understanding of application development methodologies and ERP functional processes

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.

Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone’s safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.

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C atalent is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or gender identity. If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to [email protected] . This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

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Catalent = Catalyst + Talent

Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to develop, manufacture, and supply products that help people live better, healthier lives. Join us!

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

Catalent is the perfect place to grow your career if…

• You enjoy the fast pace of a start-up, but want the opportunities and stability of a growing, publicly traded company (Listed on NYSE: CTLT).

• You want meaningful work. From cough treatments to cancer-fighting drugs, biologics, and vitamins, we help develop, launch, and supply over 200 new products each year – more than any branded drug maker in the world!

• You want to plant your career in a growing company. Over the last five years, Catalent has re-invested more than $2 billion back into the company and its people.

• You are excited about learning, collaborating, and growing alongside a global diverse team. Our team of more than 11,000 comes to work every day ready to overcome new challenges with teamwork, advanced technologies, and a passion to deliver by putting patients first.

• You want to make a global impact! From North America to Europe, Asia to Latin America, we have innovative science and manufacturing teams who are looking (https://catalent.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External) for YOU!

• See how our teams are making a difference, while growing their careers and fulfilling our mission by putting patients first every day here (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuUGqEwwnH7hBwFlrsfSOH_raQHu4hOBK) .