Operations Buyer

Catalent is a global, high growth, public company and leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of the new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion is essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives.

We are looking for a
Buyer
to act as primary procurement approver for corporate spend. This role is based at our site in Bathgate, Scotland and is a hybrid role.

The
Buyer
will work closely with the Global Procurement Organization (GPO) and Corporate purchase order owners to release purchase orders ensuring full compliance to terms, contractual status and in compliance with the Global Procurement Policy.

The Role

• Work with the GPO to process contracts for approval via the Catalent Contract Management System ensuring compliance to the Contracting Policy and Transactional Approval Policy.
• Facilitate sourcing activity for GPO project owners using RFP/RFI/e-Auction templates
• Process Vendor set-up requests and ongoing Vendor maintenance
• Process Confidentiality Agreements
• Various project support for Category Leadership such as Capex.
• Invoice resolution support
• Responsible for ensuring suppliers adhere to the Terms & Conditions specified on the purchase order and resolves challenges, for implementing the Procurement guidelines on site and contributing to its local deployment.
• Complies with and follows all procedures within the company Security, EHS and Global
• Conduct business in an ethical and professional manner to ensure avoidance of all actual and potential conflicts of interest.

The Candidate

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain or comparable disciplines.
• Proven procurement experience
• Excellent proactive problem solving and analytical skills.
• Sound working knowledge and experience of procurement practices, principles, process, tools, and methodologies.
• High personal integrity and ethics with uncompromising standards.
• Self-motivated, disciplined, and focused, can prioritise tasks.
• Advanced PC stills specifically in Excel, Powerpoint and Word including a knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning systems.
• Able to form relationships with a variety of individuals between departments, functions and at all levels of the organization.

Why you should join Catalent:

• Competitive Salary
• Pension
• Holiday
• Health Care
• Opportunities to join Employee Resource groups and be involved in charity events.

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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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on any characteristic protected by local law.

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 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.

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