Senior Buyer

About Site

The ~70,000‑square‑foot Manassas facility operates within Catalent’s Consumer Health portfolio, supporting programs from early development through commercial manufacturing and packaging. It is designed for dietary supplement and food‑safety cGMP operations, making it distinct from Catalent’s traditional pharmaceutical and biologics manufacturing sites.

Position Summary

We have an opportunity for a Senior Buyer to join our team and play a key role in supporting procurement initiatives at the site and global levels. This position focuses on cost savings, supplier quality, and risk mitigation while managing indirect spend and supporting new product launches. The Senior Buyer will collaborate across functions to drive continuous improvement and build strong supplier relationships that meet the needs of the Manassas site.

Location: Manassas, VA
100% Onsite

The Role

• Identify and support site-level and global procurement initiatives for cost savings, contract opportunities, supplier quality, and risk mitigation of single-sourced material.
• Participate in and support new product and program launches to influence sourcing decisions and purchase materials as needed to meet project timelines.
• Manage site indirect spend.
• Perform routine deep spend analysis to understand spend variance and find cost reduction opportunities through collaboration with Category Management.
• Participate in or lead cross-functional initiatives to reduce cost and improve quality for internal and external customers.
• Develop key supplier relationships to serve the local site’s needs.
• 10% global travel expectations.
• Other duties as assigned.

The Candidate

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or a similar area.
• Minimum five years of material planning or directly related Procurement/Supply Chain experience.

Preferred Skills & Background

• Experience in a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) environment.
• Proficiency with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) / Material Requirements Planning (MRP) systems, including JDE and Sag.
• Experience in developing and implementing processes, procedures, and systems.
• Lean/Six Sigma experience.

Why You Should Join Catalent

• Positive and fast-paced working environment focusing on continually improving processes to remain innovative and dynamic.
• Competitive Paid Time Off plus 8 paid holidays.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits effective day one of employment.
• Tuition Reimbursement – support to finish your degree or earn a new one.
• Site-based Employee Engagement activities such as Employee Potlucks, Company Cookouts, Monthly Birthday Recognitions, and more.
• Employee Resource Groups focusing on Diversity and Inclusion.
• Environmentally friendly, community engagement green initiatives.
• Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process with potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives.
• WellHub program to promote overall physical and mental 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. 

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

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