Director, Supply Chain

Summary:

The Supply Chain function encompasses procurement planning inventory control and customer service. This role provides strategic leadership across all areas including logistics planning and procurement and is responsible for negotiating maintenance supply agreements and new contracts. This role oversees departmental activities and personnel ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. This position collaborates with the Greenville Site Leadership Team and industry peers for guidance and best practices. Additionally the role sets goals manages direct reports and interprets and enforces policies and procedures that impact organizational units. At the senior level this role requires a high degree of independent judgment and decision-making.

The Role:

• Negotiate and manage supply agreements.
• Manage the logistics and planning function to ensure optimal processing of customer orders.
• Ensure project management disciplines are followed to deliver quick to market launches for new products.
• Manage the purchasing function to ensure coordinated and efficient supply of production. Oversee and collaborate with procurement on business continuity strategy.
• Work closely with operations to develop production capacity plans and strategies for the medium and long term.
• Ownership of SAP master data Ownership for Sales & Order Planning (S&OP).
• As the interface with the customer and Operations Team actively contribute to the development and implementation of Logistics and Planning Strategy.
• When appropriate identify potential capacity and operational efficiency opportunities. Drive cost reduction throughout the supply chain Own and drive the batch release process.
• Negotiate and manage supply agreements and co-ordinate supply related items with customers. Respond to requests for new business proposals from sales team.
• Work with specialist and technical functions (e.g. Engineering Quality Manufacturing etc.) to ensure problem free introduction of new products.
• Through consultation with the Sales and Finance functions agree pricing (and negotiate Terms and Conditions with the potential customers in liaison with the sales team).
• Manage and host customer review meetings and customer interactions Manage Customer Service via direct liaison with all key clients.

• Drive process improvements to reduce site commercial spend by utilizing the purchasing function to drive cost improvements on capex raw materials and supply chain initiatives.
• Lead multi-disciplined teams to drive development projects with supplier base.

The Candidate:

• Bachelors degree required; MBA preferred.
• At least 10 years of experience in supply chain management providing strategic and operational leadership in a customer driven planning and logistics environment with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Proven experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry.
• Strong background in procurement planning logistics and inventory control.
• Experience managing vendor relationships and negotiating contracts including maintenance supply agreements.
• Significant experience managing people and providing both tactical and strategic leadership to the Supply Chain organization and the site as a whole.
• APICS CSCP or PMP certification is a plus.
• Regulatory training or certification (e.g. GMP GDP) preferred.

Why You Should Join Catalent

• Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process.
• Diverse inclusive culture.
• Potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives.
• Dynamic fast-paced work environment.
• 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 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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