Title:  Computational Chemist

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Computational Chemist (CADD)
Job Location: Bangalore

About Syngene:  Syngene (www.syngeneintl.com) is an innovation-led contract research, development and manufacturing organization offering integrated scientific services from early discovery to commercial supply.

At Syngene, safety is at the heart of everything we do personally and professionally. Syngene has placed safety at par with business performance with shared responsibility and accountability, including following safety guidelines, procedures, and SOPs, in letter and spirit

• Overall adherence to safe practices and procedures of oneself and the teams aligned
• Contributing to development of procedures, practices and systems that ensures safe operations and compliance to company’s integrity & quality standards
• Driving a corporate culture that promotes environment, health, and safety (EHS) mindset and operational discipline at the workplace at all times.
• Ensuring safety of self, teams, and lab/plant by adhering to safety protocols and following environment, health, and safety (EHS) requirements at all times in the workplace.
• Ensure all assigned mandatory trainings related to data integrity, health, and safety measures are completed on time by all members of the team including self
• Compliance to Syngene’ s quality standards at all times
• Hold self and their teams accountable for the achievement of safety goals
• Govern and Review safety metrics from time to time

Core Purpose of the Role: The incumbent will leverage the CADD/molecular modeling techniques to address the challenges in Drug Discovery. Understand and align with the business needs of Syngene Discovery Services and provide effective business solutions by Implementing new solutions/applications and provide support for existing scientific applications running at Syngene.

Role Accountabilities:

• Responsible for utilizing computational modeling techniques in handling drug discovery projects.
• This position requires a deep understanding of molecular modeling techniques required in the design and evaluation of both small molecules and biologics.
• Expected to Identify and resolve problems where computational modeling can significantly improve the drug discovery process.
• Commitment to foster a collaborative, team-oriented approach to problem solving.
• Ability to mentor and develop a team, providing coaching, opportunities to develop skills, constructive and timely feedback on performance/progress toward goals/expectations.
• Result-oriented individual who thrives in collaborative multi-disciplinary teams. Project/Team leadership experience with ability to communicate with customers and internal stakeholders
• Excellent management skills, including the ability to set goals, define priorities, manage individual / team performance, organize people and activities to achieve goals.

Qualification:

• Ph.D. /post doc in Computational Chemistry/Pharmaceutical chemistry or any related discipline.
• More than 2 years of industrial experience in Computational Chemistry/Molecular modeling.
• Proficiency with molecular modeling software packages.
• Proficient in Python or other programming language.

Syngene Values:

All employees will consistently demonstrate alignment with our core values

•  Excellence
•  Integrity
•  Professionalism 

Equal Opportunity Employer:

It is the policy of Syngene to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable legislation or local law. In addition, Syngene will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.