Senior Principal Expert​/Principal Expert, MSAT; Packaging); Saint Joseph Missouri

Become the trusted packaging authority for a global organization.

In this highly visible role, you will influence long-term strategy, mentor technical teams, partner with senior leadership, and define the future direction of packaging excellence.

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realise that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking, and work-life balance.

Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

As the Senior Principal Expert, Manufacturing Science & Technology, the incumbent will be the "go to" technical and scientific expert for MSAT and Global Supply leadership for BIAH products and processes providing analysis and guidance throughout product / process life cycle and/or guidance to Global Innovation during new product development. This role will provide guidance and influence decisions on new technologies to support the definition of new innovative manufacturing platforms.

The Senior Principal Expert, Manufacturing Science & Technology will lead development, maintenance and advancement of technical/scientific body of knowledge for BIAH Global Supply products and processes, either for new product developments or product life cycle management. The position holder will execute independently technical deliverables and projects and appropriately sized cross-functional technical projects as Project/Program Leader or Project Contributor.

• Be the "go to" technical expert for Global MSAT and Operations leadership for BIAH products and processes for analysis and guidance throughout product / process method lifecycle:
• Provides technical guidance for change requests autonomously.
• Analyzes complex process / product data to a higher-order and prepare reports autonomously for decision making.
• Provides technical leadership, guidance and influence on processes and strategies for troubleshooting, root cause analysis and execution of technical transfer, manufacturing deviations, validations, analytical tests, etc.
• Provides technical leadership and guidance for questions received from Regulatory Authorities in various regulatory processes, e.g. geographical expansion of existing products, post approval changes on existing registrations.
• Leads strategy development and deployment of technical solutions for process optimization/ improvement of analytical test methods with possible impact on cost of goods.
• Provides guidance and influence decisions on new technologies to support future definition of innovative manufacturing platforms:
• Leads scientific exploration on existing BIAH technologies to guide definition of Technology Standards.
• Authors technical Position Papers for MSAT Organization.
• Recommends and advocates “as expert voice” for on new technologies for potential use in existing or new manufacturing processes.
• Recommends and advocates “as expert voice” for future-oriented Technology Platforms.
• Leads development, maintenance and advancement of technical body of knowledge for BIAH products and processes:
• Continually develops and maintains an appropriate individual level of theoretical and practical expertise to respond to the needs of BIAH.
• Leads MSAT mentorship program and mentor MSAT experts in experiential technical and transferrable knowledge growth.
• Leads exchange program of…