**Regional Procurement Manager**

**Position Summary:**

Catalent is a global, high-growth, public 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 live.

**This is a full-time salaried position: Monday – Friday, 1st shift.**

The **Regional Procurement Manager** is responsible for overseeing the efficient procurement of goods and services for our various Catalent sites. This includes developing and executing procurement strategies, managing supplier relationships,

optimizing costs, and ensuring the highest standards of quality and compliance.

Our Somerset location is the corporate headquarters for Catalent Pharma Solutions. This location houses our state-of-the-art laboratory, clinical, commercial manufacturing plant for oral dose forms in addition to being the Center of Excellence for Highly Potent Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (https://www.catalent.com/oral-dose/highly-potent-active-pharmaceutical-ingredients/) .

**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:**

+ Procurement Strategy: Develop and execute procurement strategies aligned with Catalent's objectives, ensuring cost-effectiveness, quality, and timely delivery of goods and services across multiple sites

+ Vendor Management: Identify, evaluate, and manage supplier relationships for various sites. Negotiate contracts, terms, and conditions to secure favorable agreements while maintaining high supplier performance standards

+ Cost Optimization: Continuously assess cost structures and identify opportunities for cost reduction and process improvement while maintaining product quality across all supported sites

+ Collaboration at sites: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams at different sites, including production, quality control, and logistics, to ensure smooth and efficient supply chain operations

+ Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant regulations, industry standards, and Catalent policies in all procurement activities across the multiple sites

+ Working Capital initiatives: Support strategies and activities related to improving working capital

+ Performance Metrics: Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure procurement performance and implement corrective actions as necessary for all sites

+ Risk Management: Identify and mitigate procurement-related risks, ensuring continuity of supply and minimizing disruptions across the various sites

+ 15% travel expectations (domestic)

+ Other duties as assigned

**The Candidate:**

+ Bachelors Degree in business, supply chain management, or a related field, required

+ Minimum of seven years of experience in procurement, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry

+ Strong analytical and problem-solving skill

+ Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite

+ 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

+ 152 hours of PTO + 8 paid holidays

+ Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on D&I

+ Dynamic, fast-paced work environment

+ 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

+ Community engagement and green initiatives

+ Generous 401K match

+ Medical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment

+ Tuition Reimbursement

+ 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.

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

Visit Catalent Careers (https://careers.catalent.com/us/en) 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 [email protected] . 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.

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