Senior Packaging Operations Manager

Senior Packaging Operations Manager

Position 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.

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.

The Senior Packaging Operations Manager is responsible for providing leadership to ensure that the product is delivered to clients and patients on time and to quality standards. Packaging operations are executed to achieve the operational objectives in accordance with Packaging standards and the Quality Management System. The Senior Packaging Operations Manager works collaboratively across departments to drive operational excellence and to identify and execute continuous improvement initiatives leading to increasing Packaging performance and compliance.

This is a full-time role position: Monday-Friday -Day shift. Onsite

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  

• Accountable for timely, compliant and effective execution of Packaging Operations, partnering cross-functionally to support execution from batch readiness through delivery

• Responsible for maintaining and reporting operational performance metrics

• Responsible for identification and implementation of improvement opportunities for established processes, procedures, and training to maintain robust processes and high functioning teams

• Partner with Validation and Engineering to identify, implement and effectively use Packaging Equipment and Automation technology

• Maintain the management of the packaging facilities and supplies

• Manage employees according to company guidelines and performance requirements as established in the union contract

• Support effective execution of the Quality Management System, including completion of Deviation and Complaint investigations and managing implementation of effective CAPA

• Support client and regulatory audits and resolution of observations

• Responsible for interfacing with Clients and managing internal communication to sustain and enhance Client relationships

• All other duties as assigned

The Candidate 

• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree with at least 10 years of experience

• Three years of Supervisory and/or management experience required

• Pharmaceutical Packaging and Manufacturing experience required

• Detailed knowledge of the Packaging production process required

• Knowledge of packaging equipment operations