Material Supply Planner

Position Summary

Catalent’s Greenville, N.C. facility specializes in end-to-end turn-key solutions for oral solid dosage forms, including integrated formulation development, analytical services, commercial manufacturing, and packaging. This state-of-the-art facility has had over $100M of investments in recent years and features fit-for-scale capacity with potent handling capabilities, ideal for orphan or targeted drug development.

The Material Supply Planner is responsible for the forecasting and demand planning of all commercial materials. The Material Supply Planner will be Subject Matter Expert (SME) for material requirements across all departments and lead the organizational efforts around inventory management and readiness to execute production against the production plan.

The Role

• Coordinate material requirement planning and MRP calculations for the site.

• Collaborate with relevant teams to oversee inventory and procurement activities.

• Facilitate component planning meetings, inventory management meetings, ready-to-execute meetings, and other necessary meetings.

• Collaborate with purchasing to ensure timely order and receipt of direct materials.

• Coordinate release and/or retest of raw materials.

• Communicate with relevant departments to ensure forecast, materials, and process orders are aligned with operational needs.

• Create and maintain production process orders for a rolling 3-week period, incorporating all released materials to facilitate process orders.

• Provide backup support for activities within Planning and Purchasing functions as needed.

• All other duties as assigned.

The Candidate

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain or related discipline with at least 1 year of related experience in a manufacturing environment; OR Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain or related discipline with at least 2 years of related experience in a manufacturing environment; OR High school diploma or equivalent with at least 4 years of experience in a Materials Planning role, Supply Chain role or equivalent role.

• Proficiency in ERP (SAP preferred) software and Microsoft Office applications.

• Experience in a pharmaceutical GMP environment or other similar regulated industry is preferred.

• Requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.

• Requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time.

Why You Should Join Catalent

• Competitive medical benefits and 401K

• 152 hours of PTO + 8 Paid Holidays

• Dynamic, fast-paced work environment

• Opportunity to work on Continuous Improvement 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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