Buyer planner
Position Summary :
Catalent Pharma Solutions in Kansas City, MO is hiring a Buyer / Planner for the Clinical Development and Supply group. This person will be responsible for purchasing components based on key inputs, including : Customer requirements from the Project Manager, production sequencing from the scheduling team and material components availability based on their own assessment and from the supply chain planner.
This person will also maintain the PO requisition program in JDE for CSS and Service POs, including obtaining vendor quotations and lead-times.
This is a full-time position : Monday Friday, 8 : 00AM-5 : 00PM.
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. Catalent’s Kansas City facility is home to our Oral & Specialty Drug Delivery, Biologics Analytical Services and Clinical Supply Services businesses.
The site provides a range of integrated services for oral solid dosage forms, from formulation development and analytical testing to clinical and commercial-scale manufacture.
The facility is the commercial manufacturing Center-of-Excellence for accelerated development programs and roller compaction.
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
- Maintain and manage supplier relationships ensuring lead times are accurate and deadlines are met for Catalent supplier components
- Ensure that sufficient material is available to support production and distribution, while not procuring excessive inventory that will be prone to obsolescence
- Request’s specifications and quotes from suppliers based on departmental needs and Customer requirements for project related purchases
- Evaluate customer commodity specifications for accuracy and completeness and communicates specifications to vendors
- Requests required documentation from suppliers to properly receive purchased materials
- Ensure all required documents are provided to the receiving and inspection teams to onboard and release materials purchased by Catalent
- Update / maintain the Material Tracker (or other designated site), as necessary - includes vendor follow-up for items that do not arrive as scheduled, updated need by dates due to timeline revision, etc.
- Project timeline approval for procured materials
- Schedule vendor deliveries with the Dock
- Help resolve or escalate Accounts Payable and invoicing issues
- All other duties as assigned
The Candidate
- High School Diploma or GED is required; Bachelors degree is strongly preferred
- Requires 4 or more years of relevant experience
- Experience with JDE or a similar Inventory Management System is preferred
- Basic computer proficiency, including proficiency in Microsoft Office, is required
- High level of written and verbal communication skills
- Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
- Experience with blueprints and technical documents
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- 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
- Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on D&I
- Dynamic, fast-paced work environment
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- 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.
- Competitive salary
- 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 Let us help you finish your degree or earn a new one!
- GymPass 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.
Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone’s safety.
The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.
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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 .
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.
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