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Laboratory Group Leader

Lensa
Greenville, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 12/23/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/21/2026
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Group Leader

The Group Leader leads and directs a team in daily activities and is instrumental in the mentoring and development of team members in obtaining career aspirations.

Position Summary

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 Group Leader is responsible for maintaining laboratory internal business units and external client relationships to ensure the highest level of service and responsiveness, which includes supporting internal non-commercial clients, external clients, and commercial processes and projects.

The Role

  • Lead and direct a team of supervisory personnel and other laboratory analytical team members at various levels.
  • Development and performance management of direct reports including training, coaching and mentoring, goal setting, performance evaluation and feedback, approves performance reviews for group members.
  • Resolve conflicts within the group relating to performance and/or workload, ensure proper resource allocation within team(s), oversee timesheet review and planning and scheduling spreadsheet.
  • Work to create an environment of open communication, participation and information-sharing within and between teams within Analytical and throughout facility.
  • Direct analytical oversight for internal commercial processes and projects as well as external client projects, supporting microbiological and chemical analysis of excipients, active ingredients, components and finished products.
  • Direct oversight of microbiological and cleaning verification staff supporting pre-commercial and commercial manufacturing including environmental monitoring.
  • Recommend approaches for scientific and quality control strategies to facilitate overall project and process success; set specifications for tests and monitor process, product, utility and environmental control.
  • Solve problems with methods, instruments, products or processes; interpret and trend data generated, escalate notification procedures as appropriate.
  • Other duties as assigned.

The Candidate

  • Associate degree in Biotechnology, Chemistry, or equivalent science degree with 11 years of professional experience in pharmaceutical analytical chemistry or;
  • BS or BA degree in a science-related field (e.g. Biology, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences) with 10 years of professional experience in pharmaceutical analytical chemistry or;
  • Master’s degree in a science-related field with eight years of professional experience in pharmaceutical analytical chemistry or;
  • PhD in a science-related field with six years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical analytical chemistry.
  • Professional Microbiological and Cleaning Verification experience is required for Micro/CV Group.
  • 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.

Why You Should Join Catalent

  • Competitive medical benefits and 401K
  • 152 hours of 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.

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) .

If you have questions about this posting, please contact support@lensa.com

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