Director, Purchasing

Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Severn
Posted on: September 1, 2024

Job Description:

Director, PurchasingPosition Summary: ----Catalent Cell & Gene Therapy hires people with a passion to make a difference. Your expertise, coupled with our advanced technologies and collaboration with innovative pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare companies, will help bring life-enhancing products to the people you know and love. Your talents, ideas and passion are essential to our mission; to develop, manufacture and supply products that help people live better, healthier lives.--This site Purchasing functional leadership role is part of a network of site and global counterparts to drive worldclass supply of required materials to our expanding commercial and clinical manufacturing operations.-- The Purchasing team is responsible for executing site and corporate goals with a focus on ensuring sustainable supply of materials engaging in pricing control, supplier contracting, focused supplier relationship management, and process improvement/guidance. The department helps keep the organization financially healthy by procuring goods and services designed to meet operational needs while providing the highest possible value.The Director of Purchasing is responsible for site purchasing leadership.-- Ensuring the site buying team executes global strategy and category management in sourcing and procuring materials, services, and capital for the Maryland sites. The Director of Purchasing leads the site Purchasing team and initiates and fosters relationships with global and site stakeholders, establishing and prioritizing activities for his/her team to achieve objectives and results. This person will also lead site level initiatives for supplier management, quality, and performance improvement, as well assist in the expanded utilization of our JD Edwards ERP tool. This role will be critical as we redesign processes and system to further our world class journey.-- Managing through change is an important skill set within this roleCatalent 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: --

• Lead team members through MRP order placement (Expediting and de-expediting) as required to achieve EBITDA goals.
• Develop and coach site buying team members and takes responsibility for direct reports' performance by setting clear goals and expectations, tracking progress against the goals, ensuring constructive feedback, and addressing performance-related concerns and issues promptly.
• Minimize impact of supplier shortages by proactively identifying and resolving potential material supply issues, timely communication, collaborating with Supply Chain for inventory build, and proper escalation.
• Increase spend under contract. Negotiate supply agreements with vendors improving commercial conditions. Ensure suppliers adhere to the terms and conditions specified on the purchase order and resolve challenges; implement the Procurement guidelines on site and contribute to its local deployment.
• Comply with and follow all procedures within the company Environmental, Health, Safety, & Security (EHS&S) and Global Trade policies.
• Integrate with GPO, including Category Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Capital, CSR/D&I, and PMO to ensure regions are aligned with GPO initiatives.
• Partner with Category leadership to develop and execute strategies for the categories that he/she participates in or leads, globally or regionally that creates value to Catalent and meets customers' expectations.
• Partner with Engineering and Global CapEx Category Management for RFP, supplier selection, negotiation, and contract execution.
• Partner with Finance to define and implement annual budget and monthly forecasting, develop a PPV process.
• Ensure proper level of material availability working closely with site planning.
• Develop pipeline of opportunities (savings, cash flow, growth, other value) for site, representing local, regional, and global initiatives.
• Through a collaborative team, coordinate and drive RFP's/RFI's process for regional and global initiatives. Invite suppliers to provide solutions and cost proposals for Catalent business requirements, evaluate proposals, make supplier recommendations, select suppliers, award business, and handle contracts for key stakeholders.
• Build and manage the portfolio of purchasing projects and develop sourcing strategies aligned to stakeholder needs.
• Other duties as assigned.The Candidate: --
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Materials Management, Engineering, or related field.-- Master's degree a plus.
  • 8+ years of experience in Procurement, Supply Chain, Strategic Sourcing, or related field.
  • Previous experience working in the biologics or pharma industry preferred.
  • Experience working in formal ERP environments (JD Edwards a large plus).
  • Experience in Contract and Supplier Agreements.
  • Collaborative, strong relationship builder with a proven track record of establishing and maintaining effective internal and external customer/supplier relationships.
  • Requires adaptability, analyzing, assessing, calculating, decision making, dependability, good judgment, reading, memorizing, social skills, speaking, stress control, writing.
  • Ability to manage time effectively to complete assignments in expected time frame and independently seek out additional work when tasks are completed ahead of time.
  • Strong ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and ability to effectively carry out and implement change.
  • 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.
    • Potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives.
    • Dynamic, fast-paced work environment.
    • Generous 401K match and Paid Time Off accrual.
    • Medical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment.--
    • Tuition Reimbursement.
    • GymPass 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 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.Visit to explore career opportunities.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 . 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.--------Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Catalent Pharma Solutions (Catalent) is not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. Resumes submitted to any Catalent employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Catalent. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.Important Security Notice to U.S. Job Seekers:Catalent NEVER asks candidates to provide any type of payment, bank details, photocopies of identification, social security number or other highly sensitive personal information during the offer process, and we NEVER do so via email or social media. If you receive any such request, DO NOT respond- it is a fraudulent request. Please forward such requests to spam@catalent.com for us to investigate with local authorities.California Job Seekers can find our California Job Applicant Notice .

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