Senior Packaging Manager

About the role

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our purpose‑driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. The role plays a key part in pharmaceutical packaging as a member of cross‑functional development programs supporting projects from concept through commercialization. It provides packaging technical support to the External Manufacturing Organization (ExM) and Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs), ensures robust primary and secondary drug product packaging processes, and works to continuously reduce supply risks.

Responsibilities

• Support CMO selection process – compile technical packages, conduct due diligence, and complete scoring.
• Lead packaging robustness assessment and improvement initiatives.
• Accountable for/lead technology‑transfer packaging projects, ensuring robust technical transfer within budget constraints and completing associated regulatory filings.
• Support operational management of packaging CMOs according to the Supplier Relationship Management governance model.
• Provide ongoing technical support to ExM/CMO to ensure compliance and security of supply – metrics review, deviation closure, CAPA effectiveness, change‑control review, APQR review, and process improvement.
• Identify and implement OPEX initiatives as necessary.
• Lead process investigations when required, using structured root‑cause analysis tools.
• Represent Manufacturing Technology on project teams and work closely with the Supply Relationship Manager and other team members.
• Act as technical lead for product robustness – create process‑robustness monitoring plans, develop process control strategies, and provide technical oversight of TPM sites to ensure continuous monitoring for all scoped products.
• Supervise the work of MS&T specialist(s), when required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s (or Master’s) degree in science, engineering, packaging, or a related field with a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.

Qualifications

• Proven record in pharmaceutical packaging technology, technology transfer, process development, and packaging support activities.
• Ability to interact at all organizational levels with strong influencing skills (e.g., Regulatory, CMO).
• Strong negotiation capability and ability to manage complex stakeholder networks.
• Understanding of business implications of technical decisions.
• In‑depth knowledge of primary packaging processes and equipment for OSD blister packaging (PVC/Alu, Alu/Alu, Aclar/Alu) and HDPE/LDPE bottles, including sterile and non‑sterile liquids and semisolids (bottle filling, vial filling, tubes).
• Knowledge of characterization/analytical techniques for measuring critical quality attributes of packaging materials.
• Experience with methods for optimum primary and secondary packaging assessment.
• In‑depth knowledge of regulatory standards and compliance expectations for packaging processes.
• Knowledge of serialization requirements and serialization technology.
• Experience using statistical software to analyze process‑related data for capability assessment or troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in technical transfer of packaging processes to CMOs within budget and project timelines.
• Demonstrated ability to manage one or more tech‑transfer projects with minimal supervision.

Skills

• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills, including concise scientific writing.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, driving issues to resolution.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
• Effective stakeholder management and influencing across functional groups.

Pay

New Brunswick, NJ – US $123,580 – $149,752 per year for full‑time employees. Additional discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities may be available.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit plans including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and insurance (medical, dental, vision, life, disability).
• U.S. exempt employees: Flexible Time Off (FTO) with no set accrual limit (subject to manager approval) and 11 paid company holidays.
• Non‑exempt employees, RayzeBio employees, and Puerto Rico employees: 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires (subject to manager approval), 11 paid company holidays, and 3 optional holidays.
• Additional time‑off benefits may include paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer‑hours flexibility, and various leaves of absence (medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, military).
• Annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.