BAT is evolving at pace into a global multi-category business. Our purpose is to create A Better Tomorrow™ by Building a Smokeless World.
To achieve our ambition, we are looking for colleagues who are ready to join us on this journey! Tomorrow can’t wait, let’s shape it together!
British American Tobacco Italy has a great opportunity for a Packaging Developer II – NRT in Trieste.
Annual Gross Salary Pay Range: 56.300 € – 70,434 € B2-A2 Chemical Pharmaceutical CLA level
This role is responsible for leading the end-to-end development and lifecycle management of pharmaceutical packaging systems, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements, product quality, and patient safety.
You will work across the full drug product lifecycle, from early development and clinical supply through to commercial manufacturing and technology transfer, ensuring packaging solutions meet regulatory, quality, and patient requirements.
This role requires strong collaboration with Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Manufacturing, Device/Drug Product teams, and external suppliers to ensure compliant, robust, and scalable packaging solutions.
This role is suited to a professional with 3–5 years of experience looking to deepen technical expertise and take ownership of defined projects or workstreams within a global environment.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Lead and deliver end-to-end development of pharmaceutical packaging systems, progressing concepts through validation and commercialisation to ensure robust and compliant product launches.
- Define and implement packaging specifications, technical requirements, and acceptance criteria for packaging components, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements, product performance, and quality standards.
- Develop and implemate packaging validation activities, including DQ/IQ/OQ/PQ, stability and compatibility testing, and material qualification trials to support manufacturing readiness and regulatory requirements.
- Lead the development of injection moulded packaging solutions, from concept evaluation through commercialisation, ensuring robust and scalable packaging designs.
- Plan, implement, and support pilot trials, first production runs, scale-up activities, technology transfer, and industrialisation projects in collaboration with manufacturing sites and suppliers.
- Resolve complex packaging and manufacturing issues through root cause analysis and implementation of effective corrective actions to improve packaging performance and reliability.
- Author, review, and handle GMP documentation, including protocols, reports, validation documentation, and specifications, ensuring compliance and audit readiness.
- Act as Packaging Subject Matter Expert (SME), within cross-functional, collaborated with suppliers, CMOs, to deliver successful scale-up, technology transfer, and industrialisation, ensuring packaging robustness in production environments, driving decision-making, innovation, cost optimisation, and sustainability initiatives;
- Travel to suppliers/plants to support development/fine-tuning and or specification release
What are we looking for?
- 3–5+ years of experience in pharmaceutical packaging development, including complex injection moulded packaging (plastic and metal) and flexible plastic packaging.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in: Packaging Engineering or Mechanical / Materials Engineering or Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Project Management certificate
- Knowledge of GMP, FDA, and ISO requirements applicable to pharmaceutical packaging development.
- Experience with: Stability and compatibility testing, Packaging validation (Design Qualification/Installation Qualification/Operational Qualification/Performance Qualification) and documentation systems
- Knowledge of common plastic materials, especially polyolefins, and awareness of global sustainability developments in plastics.
- Working knowledge of developing and validating Child Resistant/Senior Effective packaging solutions.
- Experience using SolidWorks, AutoCAD, MoldFlow (FEMS) and other packaging-related software tools.
- Strong engineering analysis skills including tolerance analysis, DFA, DFM, DFMEA, packaging design, modelling, validation, and rapid prototyping techniques.
- Ability to work effectively within global cross-functional teams, supported by strong communication, collaboration, planning, implementation, resilience, adaptability, and customer management skills.
What we offer you?
- We offer a market leading annual performance bonus (subject to eligibility)
- Our range of benefits varies by country and includes diverse health plans, initiatives for work-life balance, transportation support, and a flexible holiday plan with additional incentives
- Your journey with us isn't limited by boundaries; it's propelled by your aspirations. Join us at BAT and become a part of an environment that thrives on internal advancement, where your career progression isn't just a statement – it's a reality we're eager to build together. Seize the opportunity and own your development; your next chapter starts here.
- You'll have access to online learning platforms and personalized growth programs to nurture your leadership skills
- We prioritise continuous improvement within a transformative environment, preparing for ongoing changes
- Benefits:
- Meal Voucher/ Canteen as per location
- Private Pension
- Life & Health Insurance
- Yearly bonus based on the ABS
- Family support policy
- Office perks
- Flexible policy as per agreed Second Level agreement.
WHY JOIN BAT?
We’re one of the few companies named as a Global Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute – certified in offering excellent employee conditions.
Collaboration, inclusion and partnership underpin everything we do here at BAT. We are looking forward to enabling every individual to thrive, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, skills, experience, education, socio-economic and professional background, veteran status, perspectives and thinking styles. We know that embracing talent from all backgrounds is what makes us stronger and best prepared to meet our business goals.
We see the career breaks as opportunities not obstacles. Through The Global Returners program, we support professionals looking to restart their careers after an extended absence from the workforce (e.g. time out caring for family, parental leave, national service, sabbatical and/or starting an own venture).
Come bring your difference and see what is possible for you at BAT. Learn more about our culture and our award-winning employee experience here.
If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations to help you perform at your best during the recruitment process, you are encouraged to notify us. We are fully committed to support you by making appropriate arrangements for you to demonstrate your full potential.
