The **Planner/Buyer** is a key individual contributor to the success of Catalent Madison. The Planner/Buyer supports the execution of the Master Production Plan for the entire site to achieve 100% on-time delivery of scheduled batches. The Planner/Buyer leads all tasks associated with the planning and purchasing of raw materials, scheduling of customer orders, including projects, equipment availability, promise dates and working with procurement and materials management when the need for expediting of any material necessary to start the order. 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. Catalent is committed to a Patient First culture through excellence in quality and compliance, and to the safety of every patient, consumer and Catalent employee. **The role:** + Procures materials from approved suppliers and verifies and monitors receipt of data and materials required to meet established Production Start Dates. + Identify and monitor material shortages and implement corrective action to support production operations taking a lead role to ensure proper and timely communication with all affected areas and stakeholders. + Supports analysis to determine optimal production schedule of customer orders and combination of key inputs, including Customer requirements from the Project Management personnel, production sequencing raw material and equipment availability based on their own assessment. + Updates new plans and changes in the inventory management system. + Provides input/support for the creation of reports, updating purchasing key performance indicators overdue purchase orders, and lead-time trends. **The candidate:** + Bachelor's or Associate’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain, or related discipline preferred. + 1-3 years’ industry experience in supply chain, inventory management, procurement or related discipline preferred. + Successful experience interacting and liaising with internal and external clients, customers, and/or suppliers required + Experience using electronic ERP and Material Management systems preferred + Prior experience in a cGMP environment preferred + ASCM or ISM certification preferred **Why you should join Catalent:** + Competitive medical benefits and 401K + 152 hours PTO + 8 Paid Holidays + Dynamic, fast-paced work environment + Opportunity to work on Continuous Improvement Processes **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. Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone’s safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage. personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work. Visit Catalent Careers (https://careers.catalent.com/us/en) to explore career opportunities. 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 DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.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. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you. Important Security Notice to U.S. Job Seekers: Catalent NEVER asks candidates to provide any type of payment, bank details, photocopies of identification, social security number or other highly sensitive personal information during the offer process, and we NEVER do so via email or social media. If you receive any such request, DO NOT respond— it is a fraudulent request. Please forward such requests to spam@catalent.com for us to investigate with local authorities. California Job Seekers can find our California Job Applicant Notice HERE (https://cdn.catalent.com/files/legal/CCPA-Privacy-Notice-at-Collection-for-California-Employees-and-Applicants-English.pdf) .