Director, Project Management

Director, Project Management

Catalent, Inc. is a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) whose mission is to develop, manufacture, and supply products that help people live better and healthier lives. Catalent is dedicated to delivering unparalleled service to pharma, biotech, and consumer health customers, supporting product development, launch, and full life-cycle supply. With time-tested experience in development sciences, delivery technologies, and multi-modality manufacturing, Catalent supports the acceleration of development programs and the launch of more than a hundred new products every year. Powered by thousands of scientists and technicians and the latest technology platforms at more than 40 global sites, Catalent supplies billions of doses of life-enhancing and life-saving treatments for patients annually.

Catalent's 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 Kansas City facility is a Center-of-Excellence for our Biologics Analytical Services business. Our talented team has over 25 years of experience providing analytical services for stand-alone and integrated biologics projects.

The Director, Project Management, will be responsible for providing leadership to the Bioanalytical facility's Project Management team, ensuring all projects are managed effectively and according to client expectations. The Director will be an active member of the Global Project Management team, participating in global objectives and driving the development of the Global Project Management function. As an active member of the site(s) leadership team representing Project Management, participating in site decisions and initiatives and striving to meet revenue, metrics and goals. The Director, Project Management, will promote continuous improvement in all aspects of the job coordination with Sales, Operations, Client Services, EH&S and QA to ensure the highest level of client service.

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

• Leads financial solutioning and results when issues or expanded scope are identified considering both current and long-term objectives and relationship.
• Collaborate with internal program teams to ensure program readiness at the earliest points in the business development process.
• Delivers on multiple assigned program objectives within agreed upon time, budget, scope, and quality. The ability to balance a variety of programs at a given time. Assume the role of client advocate, manage escalations and ensure all team members act as a client advocate.
• Effectively support, supervise and monitor performance of Principal Program Managers, Senior Program Managers, Program Managers, Associate Program Managers and Coordinators in the management of assigned Programs, and ensure adherence to all set Goals and Objectives.
• Maintains open, collaborative and solution-focused communication with clients. Evaluates feedback to determine and drive appropriate changes in the business.
• Consistently seeks and promotes innovative solutions or approaches to problem solving, from a technical and functional viewpoint, in a highly flexible and interactive manner as scientific data reveals new information or requirements evolve or change.
• Works with PM leadership team to evolve current state PM practices to best-in-class program management competencies across the company. Participate in forecasting, revenue and S&OP activities.
• Routinely takes on leadership role in support of both tactical and strategic PM initiatives and support or lead site / network initiatives. Drive recruitment, retention and development strategies.
• Is involved in working with Business Development and Marketing to support the winning of new business and liaison with BD in terms of changes in scope of work, and future contract opportunities.
• Other duties as assigned.

The Candidate

Why You Should Join Catalent

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.

Personal initiative. Dynamic pace. Meaningful work.