Manager, Procurement

We're hiring a **Manager, Procurement** to support the local site to source direct materials and services, support program introductions, evaluate the supply base, and implement strategic initiatives for our site in Bloomington, Indiana!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 lives.The **Manager, Procurement** will support the local site to source direct materials and services, support program introductions, evaluate the supply base and implement strategic initiatives that deliver value to Catalent through cost savings, process improvements, supplier innovation, and supplier management, to help gain competitive advantages and meet customer needs. **This is a full-time, salaried position and is site based. The schedule is Monday - Friday 1st shift.**Catalent Biologics in Bloomington, Indiana is a state-of-the-art, GMP manufacturing facility, providing one million sq/ft of drug substance manufacturing, drug product manufacturing, and related pharmaceutical services. This award-winning facility helps customers accelerate biologic drug development programs and bring better treatments to help patients live better, healthier lives.?**The Role**+ Identify and support site-level and global procurement initiatives for cost savings, contract opportunities, supplier quality and risk mitigation of single sourced materials.+ Performs routine spend analysis to understand spend variance and find cost reduction opportunities via collaboration with Category Management.+ Support Global Procurement strategic initiatives.+ Collaborate with Financial Shared Services to ensure vendor payments are processed on time.+ Prepare various reports for cost savings tracking, supplier spend analysis and performance.+ Manage site based VMI and Consignment programs.+ Comply with all site and Corporate SOPs and documented processes.+ Follow all procedures within the company Security, EHS and Global Trade policies.+ Other duties assigned.**The Candidate**+ Bachelors degree (BA/BS) in business, finance, engineering, sciences, purchasing, or another related field, required.+ Masters Degree, preferred.+ Minimum of 3 years leadership experience required.+ Minimum of 5 years of purchasing experience required.+ Quality, biologics, pharmaceutical and technical background, preferred.+ Strong understanding of pharmaceutical industry and GMPs.+ Experience leading cross functional teams, processes and continuous improvement initiatives.**Why you should join Catalent**+ Medical, dental, vision, and wellness benefits are effective on the first day of employment.+ Potential for career growth on an expanding team and organization.+ 152 hours of paid time off annually plus 8 paid holidays.+ Community engagement and green initiatives.+ Engaging D&I Employee Resource Groups.+ Tuition reimbursement program.+ Generous 401K match.?**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 DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com . 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. 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