Senior Director Finance

Senior Director of Finance

Position Summary:

• 100% on-site in Harmans, MD

Catalent’s Baltimore facility is a leading center for biologics development and manufacturing, offering state-of-the-art capabilities in clinical and commercial supply. The site supports a wide range of services, including process development, drug substance manufacturing, and aseptic fill/finish for biologics and advanced therapies. With a strong focus on innovation and quality, the Baltimore location plays a key role in delivering life-changing treatments to patients worldwide. Team members here work in a collaborative environment that values expertise, precision, and continuous improvement, making it an exciting place to contribute to cutting-edge biopharmaceutical solutions.

The Senior Director of Finance for Catalent’s Baltimore Gene Therapy site will serve as the financial leader for the site’s commercial, development, and manufacturing operations. This role acts as a strategic business partner to the Site General Manager, Site Leadership Team, and the Biologics Segment Finance leader, driving financial performance, operational execution, and long‑range value creation.

The Role:

• The position oversees FP&A, cost accounting, cash management, monthly close, budgeting, forecasting, capital planning, and strategic decision support across the Baltimore Gene Therapy network. This leader will play a critical role in improving visibility to site performance, optimizing cost structure, supporting customer negotiations, enhancing profitability, and ensuring financial integrity.
• Leadership & Talent Development: Build, develop, and mentor a high‑performing finance team that can support a rapidly evolving clinical and commercial gene therapy operation.
• Financial Planning & Analysis: Own the site’s monthly actuals, monthly forecast, annual budget, and 5 year strategic plan, incorporating insights from commercial, operations, quality, and other functional teams.
• Operations Finance & Cost Accounting: Oversee site cost accounting structure, ensuring robust processes for batch costing, Bill of Materials, yields, scrap, and production order controls.
• Capital, Systems & Process Optimization: Lead financial governance for site capital investments, including business cases, ROI evaluations, and post project reviews.
• Customer & Commercial Support: Provide finance support to customer negotiations including pricing models, margin analysis, change orders, and contract structuring.
• Other duties as assigned.

The Candidate:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field required; MBA or CPA strongly preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive finance experience; minimum 5 years in a manufacturing or life sciences environment.
• Demonstrated leadership supporting a complex operations site; gene therapy, biologics, or pharma CDMO experience strongly preferred.
• Deep experience with FP&A, cost accounting, financial modeling, and ERP systems.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive cross‑functional alignment.
• Strong analytical rigor, executive presence, and communication skills.
• Demonstrable leadership experience at Catalent (including but not limited to participation in Catalent-sponsored leadership programs such as NGGL, GOLD, LEAD Now, GM Excellence, and GROW) may be considered in place of external experience;  

Pay

The anticipated salary range for this position in Maryland is $223-290k plus an annual bonus target. The final salary offered to a successful candidate may vary, and will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: the type and length of experience within the job, type and length of experience within the industry, skillset, education, business needs, etc. Catalent is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other states.

Why You Should Join Catalent:

• Comprehensive Benefit Package (Health, Dental, Vision, & Life Insurance).
• Group Retirement Savings- Registered Pension Plan (RPP) with employer contributions.
• Paid Time Off Programs including Vacation, banked time, and personal time.
• Employee Reward and Recognition Programs.
• Opportunities for professional and personal development.

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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