Associate Director, Packaging and Serialization

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PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVE OF POSITION

The Associate Director, Packaging and Serialization provides technical and strategic leadership to ensure compliant, robust, and sustainable pharmaceutical packaging and serialization solutions across the global BMS supply network.

This role is accountable for defining and executing packaging and serialization strategies across BMS manufacturing sites, CMOs, and 3PLs, ensuring alignment with global regulatory requirements, enterprise standards, and product lifecycle needs. The position serves as a cross‑functional technical authority within MS&T Device & Packaging Technology, translating enterprise commitments into actionable, scalable solutions while maintaining product quality, regulatory compliance, and supply continuity.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead alignment of cross‑functional workstreams (e.g., Logistics, Quality, Master Data, Packaging; internal and external) with overall serialization objectives and interdependencies.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with workstream stakeholders to drive awareness, understanding, ownership, and execution of serialization requirements aligned to their roles.
• Ensure serialization technical and non‑technical requirements are fully considered across workstreams and incorporated into negotiations with external partners (e.g., vendors, CMOs, 3PLs).
• Own and deliver serialization technical solutions to ensure timely and compliant execution across all global market regulatory requirements.
• Lead collaboration with alliance partners for serialization of existing products and new product introductions across all markets; guide internal teams to support alliance activities and ensure projects remain on track through closure.
• Manage serialization‑related commercial change management activities; serve as change control owner and/or impact assessor as required based on project scope.
• Oversee daily operational issues for commercial serialized products and develop serialization operational capabilities that drive efficiency, robustness, and long‑term sustainability.
• Support technical assessments associated with quality events, deviations, or alerts impacting serialized products or systems.
• Collaborate with Serialization Data operations to ensure sustainability and robustness of implemented serialization processes by aligning serialized data flow with physical product flow; remediate gaps as needed.
• Drive serialization continuous improvement through standardization, digitization, and automation to enhance efficiency, data integrity, and operational resilience.
• Ensure standardized implementation of serialization capabilities and recommend process improvements across BMS sites, CMOs, and 3PLs to support timely, efficient, and sustainable execution.
• Serve as subject matter expert in barcode standards and data carriers, including GS1 Standards, 2D DataMatrix, linear barcodes, and aggregation hierarchies.
• Lead or support serialization activities related to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, including Day 1 readiness and post–Day 1 execution.
• Lead pharmaceutical secondary and tertiary package development activities from development through commercialization and lifecycle management.
• Provide subject matter expertise in packaging component selection, testing, and packaging process engineering; drive continuous improvement in packaging efficiency, reliability, and right-first-time performance.
• Collaborate with R&D, marketing, supply chain, logistics, internal and external manufacturing sites, to successfully develop, transfer and launch packaged products for US and export markets.
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