Senior Manager, Product Development

Catalent Pharma Solutions•Morrisville, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Senior Manager, Product Development Position Summary: Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm 100% on-site The Morrisville (MSV) facility is Catalent’s center of excellence for nasal product development and manufacturing, providing end‑to‑end services from early formulation through clinical and commercial production. The site offers comprehensive nasal development capabilities, including analytical support, device selection, spray characterization, and both clinical and commercial scale for unit‑dose, bi‑dose, and multidose nasal products. The Morrisville site also provides development services for dry powder (DPI) and liquid pulmonary products including formulation development and optimization, method services and analytical testing. The Senior Manager, Product Development leads cross functional scientific and operational activities for the end-to-end development of orally inhaled and nasal drug products, ensuring technical excellence in formulation, analytical development, device/combination product integration, and process development while meeting client, regulatory, and quality expectations. This leader sets development strategy and control frameworks, ensuring plans are scientifically sound, phase appropriate, and rigorously executed. As a highly client facing role, it requires strong communication skills, the ability to translate complex science, and influence decision making. The Senior Manager also oversees resource planning, portfolio delivery, financial stewardship, and team development, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, compliance, and operational excellence.

Requirements

Must have Master’s Degree or Ph.D. Degree in Pharmaceutics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a related technical field, with at least 8 years of experience in pharmaceutical drug product development
Must have 4+ years of experience in a leadership role and developing high performing teams
Progressive pharmaceutical development experience, with significant time spent in OINDP (nasal sprays, DPIs, nebulized products, or combination products) is required
Proven success leading cross‑functional scientific teams in formulation, analytical development, device/combination product integration, and process development is required
Experience serving as a client‑facing technical lead, including communication of complex scientific concepts and influencing program strategy is required
Advanced understanding of regulatory expectations (FDA, ICH, USP), validation strategies, and data integrity requirements is required

Responsibilities

Lead end to end development of orally inhaled and nasal drug products, including sprays, DPIs, nebulized products, and emerging platforms
Provide technical leadership across formulation, analytical development, device/combination product integration, and process development
Develop, mentor, and lead scientific staff while fostering accountability, innovation, compliance, and operational excellence
Establish development strategy and control frameworks to ensure scientifically sound, phase appropriate, and compliant plans
Serve as the primary client facing technical lead, translating complex science and influencing decisions
Manage resources, portfolio workload, and financial stewardship to ensure efficient and timely delivery coordinating cross functional program execution across Formulation, Analytical, MS&T, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, and Project Management
Other duties as assigned

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
152 hours of PTO + 8 paid holidays
Generous 401K match
Medical, dental and vision benefits
Tuition Reimbursement - Let us help you finish your degree or start a new degree!
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.
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