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Distribution Supervisor

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.

Catalent Pharma Solutions in Philadelphia is hiring a Distribution Supervisor. The Distribution Supervisor is responsible for supervising distribution personnel to ensure shipments are accurate and on-time, that transactional integrity is maintained, customer timelines are achieved, and documents are accurately maintained. The distribution supervisor is responsible for safety, quality and compliance, delivery, cost performance, key performance indicators, adherence to processes and policies, and maintenance of processing and storage areas.

This is a full-time role position: Monday-Friday -Days, 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

+ Supervise daily activities of shipping associates and material handlers driving hourly and daily performance to achieve targets and nRFT improvement. Monitors, organizes, and performs all functions associated with distribution of clinical trial supplies and assures compliance to GMPs, SOPs, FDA, DEA, and OSHA rules and regulations

+ Lead/coach/mentor shipping associates and material handlers with their growth and development. Assign/coordinate associates and handlers’ daily activities including specific projects and seeing them through to completion; responsible for understanding all duties that their teams perform

+ Perform employee performance evaluations, disciplinary notices, according to company guidelines and performance requirements as necessary and per the union contract if needed

+ Partner with other internal departments to identify operating efficiencies to continuously improve and promote safety, quality, compliance, delivery, cost, and engagement

+ Lead investigations and writing deviations (and other quality system reports in TrackWise), as applicable, as well as, promote the reports to the next level of review in the TrackWise system

+ Conduct audits of all respective distribution areas to assure compliance with cGMPs, GDPs, corporate policies and standards, and local standard operating procedures

+ Revise SOPs, lead process improvement teams and drive Organization & Discipline methodologies as required

+ Asist with customer and/or regulatory audits of the facility as requested. Ensure the department areas are clean and audit/tour ready. Maintain Kronos system and point system for employee occurrences per the union contract. Review and approve Distribution staff vacation, flex, and personal days along with leave of absence requests

+ Act as proper back up coverage to employees and other supervisors in case of emergency breaks, PTO, etc

+ All other duties as assigned;

The Candidate

+ Requires a Bachelors Degree plus a minimum of four years distribution experience

+ Demonstrable leadership experience at Catalent (including but not limited to participation in Catalent-sponsored leadership programs such as NGGL, GOLD, LEAD Now, GM Excellence, and GROW) may be considered in place of external experience.

+ Required Leadership skills include excellent interpersonal and communication skills with all levels of stakeholders, the strong ability to lead, mentor, train, motivate, direct and empower a team, influence and lead change, contribute strategic, analytical insight for problem solving and partner with cross functional teams to identify gaps, develop and implementation of continuous improvement ideas

+ Working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Internet Explorer

+ Individual may be required to sit, stand, walk regularly and occasionally lift up to 15 pounds

Why you should join Catalent:

+ Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process

+ Diverse, inclusive culture

+ 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

+ 152 hours of PTO + 8 paid holidays

+ Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on D&I

+ Dynamic, fast-paced work environment

+ Community engagement and green initiatives

+ Generous 401K match

+ Medical, dental and vision benefits

+ Tuition Reimbursement - Let us help you finish your degree or start a new degree!

+ 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.

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. If you receive any such request, DO NOT respond— it is a fraudulent request. Please forward such requests to [email protected] for us to investigate with local authorities.

California Job Seekers can find our California Job Applicant Notice HERE (https://cdn.catalent.com/files/legal/CCPA-Privacy-Notice-at-Collection-for-California-Employees-and-Applicants-English.pdf) .