Director Operations

Job Description Position Overview: Catalent hires people with a passion to make a difference to the health of millions of people globally. Your expertise, coupled with Catalent’s advanced technologies and collaboration with thousands of innovative pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare companies, will help bring life-enhancing products to the people you know and love. Your talents , ideas and passion are essential to our mission; to develop, manufacture and supply products that help people live better, healthier lives. Interested in learning more about life at Catalent? Start here Job Title: Director Operations Location: Dartford, UK Position Summary The Director Operations would be the focal point for all matters relating to Operational performance of the site. Continue to develop the Operation to be customer focused and drive improvements in line with targets to achieve the Site Strategy. Integrate with other departments to deliver on time and in budget performance in operational areas. Manage the Production, Facilities and CI functions to ensure coordinated and efficient supply of services. Work closely with Supply chain to develop production capacity plans and strategies for the medium and long term. The Role Responsible for ensuring that EHS programmes are engaged with and implemented in all operational areas on site. Responsibility for the preparation and observance of the Operations budget. Ensure effective Facility maintenance is in place, again using best practice to minimize impact on site activity while maintaining excellent reliability of plant and equipment. When appropriate, identify potential capacity and operation efficiency opportunities. Lead the Operations function through strategic goals & objectives. Develop and implement Continuous improvement activities throughout the site to achieve budgets and improvement targets. Management of employees / inside of the "Operations" team and implementation of employee-development programs in collaboration with the Human Resources Department Ensure effective Operational disciplines are followed to deliver existing products and launches of new products. In dealings with customers and when developing proposals/solutions, actively pursue Catalent’s Quality and Environmental policies. The Candidate University degree with experience in providing strategic and operational leadership in a customer driven environment. Experience of a manufacturing organization, preferably with a make-to–order strategy, is highly desirable Would ideally have received certification in Lean 6-Sigma or similar efficiency improvement programmes. Lead multi-disciplined teams to drive performance improvement projects. Strong numeracy, verbal and written reasoning skills. Pharmaceutical Industry experience would be advantageous as a strong working knowledge of the requirements of a manufacturing organization to be compliant with regulations, legislations and cGMP are an integral part of the chargeable service being offered by Catalent. Catalent’s standard leadership competencies that are used to interview and for Performance & Development: Leads with Integrity and Respect Delivers Results Demonstrates Business Acumen Fosters Collaboration and Teamwork Champions Change Engages and Inspires Coaches and Develops 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 www.catalent.com/careers to explore career opportunities. C atalent is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or gender identity. 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 DisabilityAccommodationscatalent.com . 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. 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