Catalent Pharma

Summary:

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 position is responsible for supporting the Business Development team and the site Operations, by providing commercial management of existing customer relationships and providing on-site leadership for potential new customers and their business development opportunities. Works with senior management, business development, and operations in the negotiation of pricing and commercial contracts which support the sterile manufacturing business. Working with NPI and operations teams, ensures that customer programs effectively transition from signed opportunity to development/tech transfer program to commercial launch and routine production.

The Role:

• Act as key relationship manager for customers (existing and new) working within a given site and ensure a superior level of communication occurs between the parties.
• Coordinate and conduct customer site visits and associated hospitality.
• Cooperate with Legal, Finance, VP Business Development and Operations to prepare Supply Agreements for targeted customers and serve as lead negotiator and execute Supply Agreements with support from VP/GM and VP, Business Development.
• Provide support to other BD team members on strategy/negotiation of quotations, development agreements and commercial supply agreements
• Track commercial supply agreements to ensure capture of relevant provisions (e.g., fees, price increases, KPIs, forecasts, renewals).
• Serve as value pricing leader for assigned site/technology and appropriately manage and execute against identified value pricing opportunities. Work with VP/BD and site team to implement value pricing practices and processes. Support the BD team in reporting and tracking functions.
• Work as an integral member of the site leadership team, working closely with site GM, supply chain director, and BD team to identify and pursue current fiscal year revenue opportunities with existing customers. Develop and own delivery of budgeted customer revenue numbers for a site through participation in the site S&OP process.
• Oversee metrics tracking, reporting and forecasting business:
  • Work with IT/corporate sales operations to bridge existing offline metrics tracking with reporting in Voyager
  • Act as key point person for site S&OP and forecasting processes – work with site and BD team to pursue short-term revenue opportunities
  • Oversee and track pipeline value projections – with input from broader BD team
• Act as key site resource for development of commercial pricing; works with site finance to understand profitability and works with BD on pricing strategy.
• Work with NPI teams to manage new business assessment/quoting process.
• Assist quality department in the negotiation of quality agreements with clients in collaboration with the legal department.
• Continually evaluate and adapt new business and customer processes to create greater efficiency and effectiveness in pursuing new business and managing existing customers.
• Maintain effectiveness of the Quality System.

The Candidate:

Education or Equivalent:

• Bachelor’s degree in science, business administration or other related field, Master’s of business administration preferred

Experience:

• 10+ years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturing, quality or regulatory, general business management, technical project management and analysis

Knowledge/Skills Requirements:

• Relevant industry knowledge of sterile drug product and biologic development, analytical research and development, project scale-up, product manufacturing, quality, validations, and regulatory
• Experienced contract negotiator
• Analytical, financial, and statistical skills
• Customer services skills and professional demeanor
• MS Office skills
• Knowledge of ERP/MRP systems
• Read, understand, interpret, and apply technical writing and instructions including manufacturing instructions
• Demonstrated ability to read, write, and speak clear English.

Physical Demands:

• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reading of written documents and use of computer monitor screen, reaching with hands and arms, talking, writing, listening.
• Occasional stooping, kneeling, crouching, bending, carrying, grasping.

The anticipated salary range for this position in Harmans, MD is $268,750 - $300,570 plus variable incentive compensation. The final salary offered to a successful candidate may vary, and will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: the type and length of experience within the job, type and length of experience within the industry, skillset, education, business needs, etc. Catalent is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other states.

Work Environment:

This is an on-site job, at the Maryland Harmans location.

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.

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.

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