Manufacturing Materials Manager

Manufacturing Materials Manager

Summary:

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 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. 

Catalent, in Baltimore & Harmans, Maryland, provides industry-leading GMP development and manufacturing services for cutting-edge biopharmaceuticals such as recombinant viral vectors, next generation vaccines & hard-to-express recombinant proteins and oncolytic viruses.

The Manufacturing Materials Manager will develop and lead a team responsible for managing the total inventory in the production clean room spaces for clinical and commercial production; the team includes internal (clean room) material support associates (IMSA) on day and night shifts and data stewards on day shift.  The objective of the Manufacturing Materials Manager is to build and improve the systems to ensure world class inventory accuracy inside the production area.  S/he is fully accountable for all manufacturing inventory from time of transfer from warehouse through final manufacturing consumption and reconciliation fully utilizing the site ERP system. 

This position will closely interface with the Ready-to-Execute team, Production Scheduling, Material Control, Buyers, Costing, Manufacturing, Quality Raw Materials, MS&T, Project Management and Supply Chain leadership.

This is a full-time on-site position, M-F 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:

• Ensure all material is received from warehouse operations and follows a defined process from production staging to final consumption and reconciliation ensuring all physical moves are matched with an ERP transaction.
• Manage the manufacturing cycle count program working with production team and finance to resolve all inventory discrepancies.
• Establish a continuous improvement plan to achieve excellence in accordance with The Catalent Way (TCW); deploy the plan and coach others on the journey.
• Ensure processes are in place and executed such that eBR and ERP data are always synchronized.
• Manage the production replenishment systems (kanban) and serve as the escalation point for materials-related issues coming from the manufacturing team.
• Calculate and monitor changes to daily material consumption rates in manufacturing; feed the information to the supply chain team for maintenance of master data.
• Drive maximum utilization of the ERP system (JDE) for all MRP functions and inventory control.
• Contribute to the lifecycle management process to optimize manufacturing inventory, mitigate material expiration and reduce scrap.
• Prepare and modify SOPs and Work Instructions in support of continuous improvement.
• Represent manufacturing in the site SOP process.

The Candidate:

• A minimum of 7 years of material planning or related Supply Chain experience.
• Experience in cGMP environment.  Pharma/Biotech/CMO preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Supply Chain, Business, or relevant/similar field

• Demonstrated leadership capabilities and ability to work with employees from associates to executives. Progressive leadership experience is required.
• Practical application of lean supply chain / manufacturing principles.
• Proficiency with ERP / MRP systems.  JDE desirable.
• Working knowledge of supply and inventory planning and S+OP.
• Must be organized, possess time management skills, and be able to manage ambigui