Laboratory Team Leader

Position Summary

• Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, Days.

• This position is 100% on-site at the Greenville site.

Catalent’s Greenville, N.C. facility specializes in end-to-end turn-key solutions for oral solid dosage forms, including integrated formulation development, analytical services, commercial manufacturing, and packaging. This state-of-the-art facility has had over $100M of investments in recent years and features fit-for-scale capacity with potent handling capabilities, ideal for orphan or targeted drug development.

The Laboratory Team Leader will lead laboratory personnel in daily activities providing coaching and feedback to team members. The Laboratory Team Leader provides laboratory support for internal business units and external client pre-commercial and commercial processes and projects.  

This role will support Catalent’s Greenville, N.C. facility by leading analytical teams in method development, validation, and testing for oral solid dosage forms. It ensures high-quality data generation, regulatory compliance, and efficient project execution across commercial and pre-commercial manufacturing and packaging operations.

The Role

• Supervise, guide and oversee learning and development needs for a team of approximately three to six scientists and other laboratory personnel at various levels.

• Responsible for development and performance management of direct reports including training, coaching and mentoring.

• Lead in the development of a climate of quality and safety within the teams, by identifying and monitoring quality and safety standards.

• Ensure all work is performed and documented according to approved standard operating procedures, in general compliance with cGMPs and in a timely manner consistent with agreed upon schedules.

• Maintain proficiency in process and data review within respective scientific field of operation in accordance with job responsibility and function, able to troubleshoot instrument, method and technique-related issues.

• Project management and serve as Analytical representative for internal and external clients, both commercial and pre-commercial and, as required, CMOs.

• Author and review analytical procedures, validation documents, portions of regulatory submissions for site pre-commercial and commercial projects relating to Analytical.

• All other duties as assigned.

The Candidate

• Associate degree in Biotechnology, Chemistry or equivalent science degree with nine years of professional experience in pharmaceutical analytical chemistry required or;

• BS or BA degree in a science-related field (e.g. Biology, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences) with eight years of professional experience in pharmaceutical analytical chemistry required or;

• Master’s degree in a science-related field with six years of professional experience in pharmaceutical analytical chemistry or required;

• PhD in a science-related field with four years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical analytical chemistry required.

• Strongly prefer candidates with at least one year of experience with people leadership and project management that are client-facing.

• Position requires the ability to lift 10-50lbs, unassisted.

• Majority of the work day is performed while standing, walking, lifting, pulling, and pushing.

• Requires bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching.

• Some exposure to hazardous chemical and other active chemical ingredients.

• Requires the ability community effectively using speech, vision and hearing.

Why You Should Work At Catalent

• Spearhead exciting and innovative projects

• Fast-paced, dynamic environment

• High visibility to members at all levels of the organization

• 152 hours of PTO + 8 paid holidays

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.