Manager, Technical Services

Manager Technical Services

Position Summary:

This is a full-time salaried position located at our Kansas City MO site.

Catalents Kansas City facility is home to our Oral & Specialty Drug Delivery Biologics Analytical Services and Clinical Supply Services businesses. The site provides a range of integrated services for oral solid dosage forms from formulation development and analytical testing to clinical and commercial-scale manufacture. The facility is the commercial manufacturing Center-of-Excellence for accelerated development programs and roller compaction.

The Kansas City facility is also a Center-of-Excellence for our Biologics Analytical Services business. Our large molecule analytical team has over 25 years of experience providing broad-based and orthogonal analytical CMC services for stand-alone and integrated biologics projects. We provide support for drug substance drug product and intermediates for both innovator and biosimilar/biobetter products.

Our facility also offers comprehensive clinical packaging services including clinical supply management package engineering clinical manufacturing primary and secondary packaging global distribution and logistics and return/destruction services. The facility features an isolated potent suite and DEA Schedule I-V controlled drug storage to handle even your most challenging products.

The Manager Technical Services leads the activities of the Technical Services group. The Technical Services groups function is to prepare the Production operation to execute Label Printing and Primary and Secondary Packaging. The Manager Technical Services utilizes knowledge of the packaging industry and clinical experience to provide processes and systems that operate in an effective manner to positively impact the SQDC of the business.

As the first line interface with Project Management and Catalents customers this group provides the technical expertise required to efficiently design onboard and execute Packaging and Distribution programs that affect the health and well-being of patients involved in clinical trials or receiving commercially available medication. The Manager Technical Services is also closely tied in with the Business Development and Client Services teams working closely to define proposals that highlight the strengths of the packaging site. Primary and Secondary Package designs are completed and tooling is procured and designed to support the package designs. In addition the manager will oversee package engineering maintenance operation support activities and operations compliance specialists.

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

The Role:

• Sets priorities for the group to ensure task completion and coordinates activities with other departments to ensure provision of batch records and components and priorities to address resource or operational challenges

• Provides advanced technical and operational guidance to employees colleagues and customers

• Provides insight and guidance into event Root Cause Analysis (including Safety Quality and Delivery events) and reviews/approves reports (i.e. discrepancies deviations and complaints)

• Responsible for the performance and results of the Technical Services group as outlined below

• Accountable for the overall quality of output produced by the Technical Services group including batch records and specifications

• Provides oversight and assistance with investigations related to Technical Services (discrepancies deviations and complaints) as well as Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) identification and closure

• Understands the daily weekly and monthly schedule for the Technical Services group and services daily activities to meet on time delivery

• Participates in the outline and review of proposals and agreements for clinical and commercial projects for the full CDS packaging business line

• Other duties as assigned

The Candidate:

• Bachelors degree in Business or Science required

• Five years of people management required

• Ten years of relevant industry experience required

• Individual may be required to sit stand walk regularly and occasionally lift 0-15 pounds

• Demonstrable leadership experience at Catalent (including but not limited to participation in Catalent-sponsored leadership programs such as NGGL GOLD LEAD Now GM Excellence and GROW) may be considered in place of external experience

Why You Should Join Catalent:

• Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process

• Diverse inclusive culture

• 152 hours of PTO 8 paid holidays

• Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on D&I

• 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

• Community engagement and green initiatives

• Generous 401K match

• Medical dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment

• Tuition Reimbursement

• WellHub - program to promote overall physical wellness

• Perkspot - offers exclusive or private discounts from approximately 900 merchants in a wide array of categories
  
  

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7000 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.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans.

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