Senior Project Coordinator
Position Summary:
- Shift: M-F 8am-5pm
- Location: Kansas City, MO
- 100% Onsite
Catalent’s Kansas City facility is home to our Oral & Specialty Drug Delivery, Biologics Analytical Services and Clinical Supply Services businesses.
We have an opportunity for a Senior Project Coordinator to join our team. In this role, you will coordinate projects from award stage to completion, ensuring timelines are planned, monitored, and achieved. You will support internal and client meetings, manage project documentation, and oversee materials and inventory tracking. This position offers the chance to work closely with project managers and clients to ensure successful project delivery.
The Role
- Coordinate assigned projects from award stage to completion, ensuring planning timelines are generated, monitored, and tracked for successful completion.
- Attend and document internal and client meetings, teleconferences, visits, and audits to support assigned projects and generate required project documentation.
- Receive, monitor, and manage client-supplied label text, randomizations, drugs, components, and materials, ensuring timely delivery to internal functions.
- Manage inventory reporting and track client inventory in line with project requirements.
- Provide information and project forecasts to the Project Management team to support Sales & Operations Planning and client management.
- Set up the returns phase of projects, manage and monitor IDRs and destruction processes, and ensure invoicing is completed.
- Investigate and propose solutions for disputed invoices and manage invoice queries to ensure timely resolution and payment.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
The Candidate
Minimum Requirements
- High School diploma with at least five years of relevant experience in a customer service field, or an associate degree with at least two years of experience in a customer service field, or a bachelor’s degree preferred.
- At least one year of related experience in a customer service or business-related field is required.
- Professional Project Management Qualification preferred.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with internal and external customers, peers, and managers.
- Well organized with the ability to multitask and work effectively under pressure to meet deadlines.
- Individual may be required to sit, stand, walk regularly, and occasionally lift up to 25 pounds.
Preferred Skills & Background
- Project Management experience.
- Experience taking and managing meeting minutes.
- Client-facing experience.
Why You Should Join Catalent
- 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.
- Competitive paid time off plus 8 paid holidays.
- Community engagement and green initiatives.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits effective day one of employment.
- Tuition reimbursement.
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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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.
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Skills Required
- High school diploma with at least five years of relevant customer service experience, or an associate degree with at least two years of customer service experience; a bachelor’s degree is preferred.
- At least one year of related experience in customer service or a business-related field.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organization and multitasking skills, with the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Ability to sit, stand, and walk regularly and occasionally lift up to 25 pounds.
- Professional Project Management qualification.
- Project management experience.
- Experience taking and managing meeting minutes.
- Client-facing experience.
Catalent, Inc. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Catalent, Inc. and has not been reviewed or approved by Catalent, Inc..
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is commonly described as roughly 152 hours per year plus about eight paid holidays for U.S. roles. Eligibility and exact counts vary by location, but the allotment is positioned as competitive.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match (often described as dollar‑for‑dollar up to 6%) is part of the package. The match level is commonly referenced as a meaningful component of total rewards.
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Medical, dental, vision, life/disability, HSA/FSA, EAP, tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, commuter and dependent‑care benefits, and wellness programs are offered. Some roles indicate benefits eligibility begins on the first day for direct hires.
Catalent, Inc. Insights
What We Do
Catalent, Inc. is a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) whose mission is to develop, manufacture, and supply products that help people live better and healthier lives. Catalent is dedicated to delivering unparalleled service to pharma, biotech, and consumer health customers, supporting product development, launch, and full life-cycle supply. With time-tested experience in development sciences, delivery technologies, and multi-modality manufacturing, Catalent supports the acceleration of development programs and the launch of more than a hundred new products every year. Powered by thousands of scientists and technicians and the latest technology platforms at more than 40 global sites, Catalent supplies billions of doses of life-enhancing and life-saving treatments for patients annually. For more information, visit www.catalent.com.







