Director, Continuous Improvement (CI)

Position Summary

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 Director, Continuous Improvement is responsible for overall CI excellence across the BWI/Harmans site. This includes building expertise, establishing predictable and consistent processes, focusing on business priorities, and accelerating new technologies. This role will lead a site CI team charged with developing and embedding the skills and behaviors that will result in a sustainable continuous improvement culture within the BWI/Harmans site with focus on standardization, simplification, and rapid adoption of best practices.

The Director, Continuous Improvement is a dedicated resource responsible for operational transformation through the use of lean, Six Sigma, and other advanced problem-solving and process improvement tools. By focusing on CI, this role will contribute to Catalent’s Patient First philosophy by driving the site to improve processes and continue to meet the growing needs of clients and patients with the highest quality drugs in a timely manner.

The Role

• Identify continuous improvement opportunities throughout the organization by routinely studying, prioritizing, and selecting projects that leverage lean Six Sigma tools to drive improvements in key site KPIs

• Facilitate advanced problem-solving and analysis of specific improvement opportunities leading to the implementation of effective sustainable solutions

• Promote the use of data and metrics for identifying improvement opportunities and problem-solving activities

• Coach and mentor Lean Six Sigma Project Leaders to complete projects by identifying and eliminating barriers

• Engage teams as a Change Agent to help establish a Continuous Improvement culture and execute advanced problem-solving activities

• Support design, development, and delivery of lean Six Sigma training and project execution

• Assist in the identification and sharing of best practices across the organization

• Manage weekly/monthly site reporting (People, Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost). Develop data collection systems and performance reporting

• Prepare and deliver complex presentations to ensure adequate understanding, resources and support for ongoing and future CI projects

• Coordinate with Global and Regional Deployment Leaders regarding project status, issues and accomplishments. Network and collaborate with other Catalent CI Leaders Managers/Directors to share best practices

The Candidate

• Bachelor's degree with an emphasis in Life Science, Engineering or Business field

• 7 years of phase 3 and commercial stage manufacturing related work with demonstrated experience in Continuous Improvement and/or Operational Excellence preferred

• Preference of three (3) years of experience in Biologics, Cell, or Gene Therapy operations and production

• Four (4) years of experience leading team improvement efforts in production facilities

• Experience in a GMP regulated environment

• Certification in Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or similar

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work with people at all levels of the organization, including the executive leadership team

• Ability to successfully prioritize, and manage large, complex projects, deadlines, and tasks with little supervision in both team and independent environment

Knowledge/Skills Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to define and execute a strategy while concurrently delivering to metrics and driving a culture change.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential. Strong attention to detail, people skills, organized and ability to multi-task are essential for success.

• Demonstrated collaboration and influencing skills.

• Demonstrated knowledge as a subject matter expert and resource.

• Demonstrated understanding of cGMP requirements related to change and change management.

• Demonstrates the ability to independently prioritize workloads, motivate/inspire others, and excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Must be able to interact effectively with a variety of individuals and personalities within and between sites, departments, regulators and customers.

• Fully competent in the use of common computer software – Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint

Why You Should Join Catalent

• 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.

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

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