Director, Manufacturing Operations

Title: Director, Manufacturing Operations

Location: Kansas City, MO

Summary

The Director, Manufacturing Operations provides leadership, direction, and oversight for manufacturing operations at the Kansas City site. The role is accountable for the safe, compliant, efficient, and customer-focused execution of clinical and commercial manufacturing programs while meeting business objectives for employee engagement, quality, delivery, and cost.

As a member of the Site Leadership Team, the Director, Manufacturing Operations partners across functions to develop and execute site strategy, support business growth, and continuously improve operational performance. The Director establishes a culture of safety, quality, accountability, inclusion, continuous improvement, and employee development.

• •Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Business, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
• •Minimum 12 years of experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, CDMO, or other highly regulated manufacturing environments.
• •At least 7 years of manufacturing leadership experience, including leading managers and developing high-performing teams.
• •Proven success supporting regulatory inspections, client audits, customer interactions, and pharmaceutical quality systems.
• •Strong knowledge of GMP regulations, pharmaceutical manufacturing operations, and Quality-Operations partnerships; oral solid dosage experience preferred.
• •Demonstrated business and financial acumen with the ability to balance quality, customer, operational, people, and financial priorities.
• •Expertise in Lean manufacturing, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and data-driven problem solving.
• •Excellent communication, presentation, client-service, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• •Strategic and change-oriented leader with the ability to translate business goals into operational priorities while driving organizational alignment and transformation.
• •Strong talent development, decision-making, and leadership capabilities, with a track record of building succession pipelines, coaching leaders, influencing stakeholders, and representing the organization with employees, customers, regulators, and senior executives.

• •Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process
• •Diverse, inclusive culture
• •Potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives
• •Dynamic, fast-paced work environment.
• •Community engagement and green initiatives
• •Generous 401K match and Paid Time Off accrual
• •Medical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment
• •Tuition Reimbursement

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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