# Packaging Operations Principal Engineer

**Company**: Consumer Health
**Location**: Whippany, New Jersey
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $96,200-144,400
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

At Bayer we're visionaries, driven to solve the world's toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none' is no longer a dream, but a real possibility.

Packaging Operations Principal Engineer

Your Tasks and Responsibilities:

- Assume remit for business protection & maintenance activities; accountabilities including:

- Development of secondary and tertiary packaging

- On time, in full delivery of project success factors

- Creation of meaningful improvements and cost savings projects to protect brands and defend vs competition

- Effective technical transfer of information to the factory / CMO

- Packaging leadership of US strategic business protection & maintenance projects

- Create packaging solutions by using in-depth technical knowledge, experience, and education; considering the shopper, customer, channel, brand, financial, technical, and compliance success factors.

- Partner with the US Product Supply and Development Center to contribute to category business protection & maintenance plans, with specific packaging strategy insights and recommendations.

- Collaborate with the broader P&D group as well as all cross-functional partners to ensure smooth transfer of information, holistic understanding of project needs, and adherence to requirements.

- Develop key external partnerships (in collaboration with Procurement) to ensure best fit to project needs, innovative supplier selection, and cost budget targets.

- Develop key internal partnerships (in collaboration with consumer insights, manufacturing and sales) to reduce damage in the supply chain and improve manufacturing efficiencies.

WHO YOU ARE: Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following: Required Qualifications:

- Education: Packaging Engineering Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent degree);

- Experience: A proven track record in managing packaging development, including the creation, development & delivery of new packaging and business protection & maintenance of launched packaging, ensuring efficient production and best in class quality in the supply chain. Consumer healthcare or FMCG experience is an advantage.

- Fit to Win Competencies: Dealing with ambiguity, Business Acumen, Conflict management, Organizational agility & perspective, Problem solving, Drive for results,

- Fit to Win Skills: Communication skills, Project planning, Packaging manufacturing/PS principles, Finance, Analytics

Preferred Qualifications:

- 8y experience, master's degree (or equivalent degree) with min. 3y experience

This posting will be available for application until at least September 28, 2026. Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $96,200-144,400. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant). Other benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.

## Skills

### Required
- Packaging Engineering
- Project planning
- Communication skills
- Business Acumen
- Conflict management
- Organizational agility
- Problem solving
- Drive for results
- Packaging manufacturing/PS principles
- Finance
- Analytics

### Nice to have
- Master's degree
- 8 years of experience

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