Catalent Pharma Solutions

Director, Continuous Improvement, Consumer Health

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.

Catalent brings 90 years of expertise in global product development and supply for over-the-counter, nutritional supplement and beauty products. With a broad portfolio of consumer preferred delivery technologies including softgel and gummy, and a library of market-ready products, Catalent helps accelerate brand growth by getting better products to market, faster.

The Director, Continuous Improvement, Consumer Health (CH) is responsible for overall Continuous Improvement (CI) excellence across Consumer Health Division. This includes building the CI roadmap, identifying, and monitoring Key Performance Indicators and metrics, deploying new tools and processes that improve operations, delivering CI specific training, and supporting culture change initiatives. The site-based CI leaders at each CH site will have a dotted line reporting relationship to this role.

The Director, Continuous Improvement will collaborate with the CH Division, Function, and Site leaders to align on priorities and specific targets (i.e. safety, quality, delivery, cost) This is a highly collaborative and influencing role, as site CI leaders will frequently require support of cross-functional team members who report to the Division or functions. Aligned with the Division Presidents, the CH senior leadership team and functional leaders, there will be with strong targets and success will be determined by meeting or exceeding specific financial, quality, growth, customer satisfaction and delivery targets.

Culture change initiatives will include: The Catalent Way, Patient First as part of all CI efforts, reliable execution of CI initiatives, including metric attainment and minimization of crisis remediations.

This role will provide CI subject matter expertise, leadership, and support to CI colleagues in the areas of: Lean deployment, Benchmarking, Maturity Assessments, Lean & Six Sigma training, Project Definition and selection, DMAIC, Change Management, and all activities related to sustained cultural change.

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:

• Define and manage a process for Best Practice Sharing across the Consumer Health Network and with the rest of Catalent. Define and deploy a business unit process for multi-site improvement projects identification, evaluation, prioritization, execution (tracking, reporting) and define and manage a process to collect and transfer knowledge between sites. Jointly develop a process for Best Practices sharing the CI Directors of the other Business Units.

• Be the program manager for the Consumer Health "The Catalent Way" lean initiative Roadmap. Facilitate an operating cadence for reviewing local and cross-site improvements initiatives and evaluating their budgetary impact. Ensure 100% alignment on project benefits with the local and corporate Finance Teams.

• Manage the weekly SQDCP (Safety Quality Delivery, Cost, People) calls with the sites ensuring metrics are reported timely and consistently. Organize the monthly operating mechanisms for the Consumer Health leadership group review of manufacturing sites performance.

• Coach and support the Continuous Improvement teams of the Consumer Health manufacturing sites.

• When required, support the Consumer Health Leadership Team with deep dives, specific analysis, maturity assessment, etc. Lead, when necessary, specific improvement initiatives with a multi-site scope.

• This is a global role and will require 30% travel.

• Other duties as assigned.

The Candidate:

• Bachelor of Science in Technical or Financial or related discipline. Advanced (MS or MBA) degree or Master Black Belt or equivalent certification preferred.

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in Operations and/or Continuous Improvement roles in complex manufacturing environments, preferably in a consumer health/regulated work environment.

• Excellent communication & presentation content creation skills of complex data to differing levels of organizations.

• Substantial hands-on experience in manufacturing operations

• Demonstrated mastery of quality improvement methods such as LEAN, Six Sigma.

• Experience working to regulatory standards: FDA, Good Engineering Practice (GEP), Good Manufacturing Procedures (GMP) and Good Documentation Procedures (GDP).

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.

• Cross-functional exposure to other areas within the organization.

• 152 hours of paid time off annually + 8 paid holidays.

• Medical, dental, vision and 401K benefits effective day one of employment.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• 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.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

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 DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com . 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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