Catalent Pharma Solutions Hiring for Manager, Operations Planning at Bloomington, Indiana 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)

Manager, Operations Planning

Position Summary:

Catalent is a global, high-growth, public company and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives.

An Operations Planning Manager’s primary role is to lead the team of Operations Planners and oversee the site-wide inventory management processes. The Operations Planning team translates the strategic business portfolio, new and on-going client project orders, and other resource-critical work within the facility into a manageable portfolio of activities that can be scheduled, implemented, and monitored for compliance with commitments made to clients. This may include overseeing, and developing as needed, clinical and commercial demand data, control procedures and practices for effective scheduling, work order creation, readiness management and execution tracking for manufacturing and packaging activities. Responsibilities include coordination of data integrity management, intra-departmental process standardization, quality event response and team development.

This is a full-time role, salaried position: Monday – Friday

Catalent Biologics in Bloomington, Indiana is a state-of-the-art, GMP manufacturing facility, providing one million sq/ft of drug substance manufacturing, drug product manufacturing, and related pharmaceutical services. This award-winning facility helps customers accelerate biologic drug development programs and bring better treatments to help patients live better, healthier lives. 

Catalent is committed to a Patient First culture through excellence in quality and compliance, and to the safety of every patient, consumer, and Catalent employee.

The Role

• Oversee team of Operations Planners creating and analyzing work orders, generating finite schedules and facilitating routine ready to execute cross-functional discussions.

• Perform e mployee performance evaluations, new employee hiring, disciplinary notices, employee termination, according to company guidelines and performance requirements.

• Coaches team to identify and communicate scheduling conflicts to the BU and Supply Chain Management to obtain resolutions; communicates decisions to the individual teams affected by the schedule changes.

• Provide leadership and guidance for establishing and documenting consistent processes for shop floor scheduling and overall execution of the major asset schedules.

• Ensure schedule data integrity through coordination of team priorities; focusing on creation of firm demand within the ERP system and alignment of scheduled start and end dates.

• Support internal and external schedule escalation discussions to ensure alignment with Client needs and Catalent contractual obligations.

• Definition, standardization, collection and reporting of standard production planning metrics; including but not limited to schedule adherence, on time starts and on time delivery.

• Development, implementation and facilitation of the site-wide cross-functional Material Review board (MRB) process.

  The Candidate

• The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in materials planning, procurement, or equivalent education and training. An undergraduate degree is required for hire.

• Possession of an APICs accredited certification is a plus

• 5+ years of recent experience in a production planning, manufacturing or other related role in an ERP or GMP environment

• ERP experience and knowledge is required for this role

• MS Office skills

• Understanding of regulatory requirements

  Why you should join Catalent:

• Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process

• Diverse, inclusive culture

• 19 days of PTO + 8 paid holidays

• Dynamic, fast-paced work environment

• Positive working environment focusing on continually improving processes to remain innovative

• Potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives

• Competitive salary with quarterly bonus potential

• Community engagement and green initiatives

• Generous 401K match and Paid Time Off accrual

• Medical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment

• Tuition Reimbursement

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.

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.Visit www.catalent.com/careers to explore career opportunities.

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.

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Catalent Pharma Solutions (Catalent) is not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. Resumes submitted to any Catalent employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Catalent. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.

Important Security Notice to U.S. Job Seekers:

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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) .