Manager Pre-Production and Label Control
Position Summary:
Catalent is a global, high-growth, private 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.
This 206,878 square-foot facility, located in the Philadelphia area is Catalent’s global Center of Excellence for Clinical Supply Packaging. Catalent offers GMP secondary packaging and clinical labeling services throughout our global network. Packaging can be configured to hold a single product, or multiple products as determined by study requirements. We offer manual patient kit assembly along with semi-automated and automated wallet sealing and high-speed automated carding to meet the needs of studies of all sizes. For temperature sensitive products and those with minimal to zero allowable time out of environment, we can perform secondary packaging in refrigerated and frozen packaging rooms or over dry ice depending upon your project needs. Using our Clinicopia global labeling system with its multi-lingual label phrase library we can design single panel, booklet labels or our unique Peel-ID™ safe storage labels for your studies. Single panel and Peel-ID™ safe storage labels can be conveniently reviewed and approved online via our Fusion portal before being printed and inspected at our facilities.
Catalent Pharma Solutions in Philadelphia, PA is hiring a Manager Pre-Production and Label Control. This position is responsible for leading teams tasked with pre-production activities to ensure on-time and right first-time readiness to execute in packaging. Specifically, study set-up, batch record and protocol generation, design, creation, printing, receipt/control and destruction of primary and secondary packaging labels utilized in packaging and distribution of stability, analytical, commercial, and clinical trial material. The responsibilities include the creation of and control of randomization for clinical trial studies.
This is a full-time, salaried role on-site. This is on 1st shift. The core hours are Monday – Friday, 8am-5pm.
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:
- Independently manage Pre-Production and Label Control teams and ensure the coordination and management of projects from award stage to completion for all aspects and elements of a project ensuring correct set up, planning, monitoring and on-time execution
- Prioritize team tasks to ensure completion aligns with timelines and effectively deliver project management and pre-production requirements for accurate and timely execution
- Manage the overall function of batch record and protocol generation
- Manage the overall function of label receipt, creation/design, inspection, receipt/control, storage, destruction, and release
- Communicate batch record and label status to other pertinent functional areas
- Liaise directly with Project Management, Scheduling, Warehouse and Production to ensure proper staging of materials per timelines
- Management responsibilities include professional development, performance appraisals and employee counseling direct reports
- All other duties as assigned
The Candidate:
- Requires a Bachelor's Degree with at least five years of relevant experience OR a High School Diploma/General Education Degree with at least ten years of relevant experience
- Strongly preferred degree in Regulatory Affairs, Biotechnology, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain or related discipline
- Requires at least three years of experience leading a team of direct reports, tracking and providing performance management
- GMP and FDA regulated industry experience is required; DEA regulated industry experience is preferred
- Required Leadership skills include excellent interpersonal and communication skills with cross-functional teams, the strong ability to lead, mentor, train, motivate, direct and empower a team, influence and lead change, and contribute strategic, analytical insight for problem solving and work with the team to identify gaps and develop continuous improvement suggestions/ideas
- 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
- Individual may be required to sit, stand, walk regularly and occasionally lift 0-15 pounds
Why You Should Join Catalent:
- Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process
- Diverse, inclusive culture
- Positive working environment focusing on continually improving processes to remain innovative
- Potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives
- 152 hours of PTO + 8 paid holidays
- Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on D&I
- Dynamic, fast-paced work environment
- Community engagement and green initiatives
- Generous 401K match
- Company match on donations to organizations
- Medical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment
- Tuition Reimbursement – Let us help you finish your degree or start a new degree!
- WellHub 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.
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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.
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