[Hiring] Category Director - Biologics Single Use @Catalent Pharma Solutions

Role Description

The Strategic Category Director is responsible for defining and executing global category strategies across assigned spend categories to support Catalent’s Biologics business covering Cell and Gene Therapies as well as Drug Substance Manufacturing. This role owns category strategy development, supplier relationship management for strategic and critical suppliers, risk mitigation, and value creation across the enterprise.

The role partners closely with Site Procurement Leaders, Global Procurement Organization (GPO), Operations, Quality, MS&T, Finance, and Business Unit Leadership to ensure supply assurance, competitiveness, and alignment with enterprise objectives. The position is Remote based in USA.

• Leadership, engagement, and development of cross-functional teams to drive category strategies and initiatives to completion.
• Own and develop global category strategies aligned to business growth, risk, and cost objectives.
• Act as enterprise category authority, setting direction for site-level execution.
• Lead strategic sourcing initiatives, supplier segmentation, and long-term category roadmaps.
• Own SRM for strategic and critical suppliers, including governance, performance, and executive engagement.
• Lead complex, high-impact negotiations covering commercial, contractual, and risk terms.
• Drive supplier innovation, capacity assurance, and joint value creation initiatives.
• Conduct enterprise-level supply risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies.
• Partner with Quality, Operations, and MS&T to support dual sourcing and qualification strategies.
• Serve as escalation point for category-level supply risks and disruptions.
• Develop and deliver savings, cost avoidance, cash flow, and productivity pipelines.
• Optimize total cost of ownership through consolidation, standardization, and volume leverage.
• Partner with Finance on PPV, inflation management, and budget delivery.
• Ensure alignment between global category strategies and site execution.
• Partner with GPO leaders to deploy category management tools and best practices.
• Provide regular executive reporting on category performance, risks, and value delivery.
• Provide spend, savings, and value reporting on a regular cadence.
• Contribute to annual sourcing plans aligned with Biologics financial objectives.
• Ensure category savings, cost avoidance, and inflation targets are met.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field; Master’s preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive procurement experience in biopharma, pharmaceuticals, or medical devices.
• Demonstrated experience leading global category strategies and SRM programs.
• Deep expertise in category management, strategic sourcing, and supplier risk management.
• Strong negotiation, financial, and commercial acumen.
• Ability to operate effectively in a global, matrixed organization.
• Proven leadership, influence, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience with single use equipment, chromatography media, buffer production, among other biologics category is a plus.

Benefits

• 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.

Company Description

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.