Buyer​/Planner

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• Work Schedule:
  
  M-F 1st shift
• 100% on-site

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 Kansas City facility is a Center-of-Excellence for our Biologics Analytical Services business. Our talented team has over 25 years of experience providing analytical services for stand‑alone and integrated biologics projects.

Catalent Pharma Solutions in Kansas City, MO is hiring a Project Manager. The Kansas City Clinical Supply Services Buyer / Planner performs purchasing activities for the site including planning and procurement of all components necessary to complete packaging and distribution orders. This includes creating purchase orders, managing supplier relationships, and assisting in planning packaging jobs to ensure enough components are present.

• Performs analysis to determine optimal safety stock levels for stock components as well as re‑order points for all materials based on lead times.
• Maintain and manage suppliers, meeting regularly to review lead times, pricing, and performance.
• Ensures that sufficient material is available to support production and distribution, while not procuring excessive inventory that will be prone to obsolescence.
• Purchases components based on packaging timelines and material availability based on their assessment of inventory.
• Creates and tracks Purchase Orders for Catalent supplied materials and ensures that purchase price is in accordance with the job estimate.
• Requests specifications and quotes from suppliers based on departmental needs and Customer requirements for project‑related purchases.
• Evaluates customer commodity specifications for accuracy and completeness and communicates specifications to vendors.
• Initiates and maintains contact with suppliers for timely procurement of Catalent supplied components.
• Requests required documentation from suppliers to properly receive purchased materials.
• Manages the Material Tracker (or other designated site), including vendor follow‑up for items that do not arrive as scheduled, updated need‑by‑dates due to timeline revision, etc.
• Provides project timeline approval for procured materials.
• Schedules vendor deliveries with the Dock.
• Helps resolve/escalate Accounts Payable / invoicing issues.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree preferred with a minimum 2‑4 years of related experience
• OR Associate’s degree with equivalent professional experience: 2‑4 years of related experience

• 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 effective day one of employment
• Tuition Reimbursement – let us help you finish your degree or start a new degree!
• Well Hub – 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.

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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 Disabili 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 to the application or hiring process.