Associate Manager - Package Design & Development

Use Your Power for Purpose

At Pfizer, we believe that every role contributes to our mission of improving patients' lives. Whether you are involved in the design and development of manufacturing processes for products or supporting the upkeep of systems, engineering is crucial to ensuring customers and patients receive the medicines they need. By collaborating with our forward-thinking engineering team, you'll play a pivotal role in accelerating the delivery of medicines to the world.

What You Will Achieve

Role Summary:

The role of Associate Manager Package design and development is to provide technical support on packaging development processes to production-packing and cross functional teams and troubleshoot exercise on packaging commodities and process. The packaging engineer is expected to develop packaging configurations and to manage technical efforts.  Must be capable of ensuring resolution of all technical issues and providing timely implementation of all projects to maintain a consistent supply of our products to the market, while maintaining compliance with cGMP.

In this role, you will:

• Develop plans for short-term work activities, including timelines, work plans, and deliverables within the team.

• Provide technical support and guidance to ensure packaging systems comply with governmental regulations and meet customer and quality needs.

• Collaborate with outside vendors and internal teams to develop and engineer packages that ensure functionality, compliance, cost-efficiency, and timely objectives.

• Author and approve packaging specifications, pallet patterns, and bills of materials for various packaging systems.

• Lead and support technical improvement projects aimed at defect reduction, improved equipment reliability, and better equipment utilization using Six Sigma and other tools.

• Identify and implement cost-saving ideas, specifically efficiency improvements and projects that increase equipment capacity.

• Communicate and participate in packaging material investigations, deviations, troubleshooting, corrective actions, and vendor capability assessments.

• Provide technical support to the production-packing team for smooth product launches and support the Packaging Development Laboratory by procuring and maintaining testing equipment.

Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

• Packaging related institute & degree with 5+ years of experience if diploma 7+ years of experience

• Proficiency in Design Controls for Medical Devices and/or Combination Products

• Strong skills in MS Office Suite

• Solid understanding of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)

• Experience with package labeling requirements, particularly in serialization, trade dress alignment, and batch variable imprinting methods, and their operational impacts

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)

• Relevant sterile pharmaceutical packaging experience

• Proficiency in continuous improvement and Statistical Process Control methodologies, such as DMAIC and Six Sigma

• Familiarity with a wide range of package performance testing equipment and methods

• Understanding of regional pharmaceutical compendia testing requirements

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

• Demonstrated leadership capabilities and mentoring skills

Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.

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