Title:  Senior Research Investigator

                                                             JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Senior Research Investigator
Job Grade: 7-II
Department: Discovery Chemistry / S2-BMS

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.

Mandatory expectation for all roles as per Syngene safety guidelines

• 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

Core Purpose of the Role:
•    To plan, manage, execute and deliver projects within the prescribed timeline with required quality and quantity parameters, following company’s organizational ethics and policies.
•    To guide, supervise and develop the assigned team in project planning, lab management, project execution and relevant documentations following company’s organizational ethics and policies.

Role Accountabilities:
•    Supervise the subordinates for timely completion of assigned projects.
•    Responsible for periodic reports updating to both internal and external clients
•    Ensure the optimum resource utilization and cost efficiency
•    Responsible for project planning and execution
•    Ensure the implementation of regulatory compliances
•    Troubleshoot the problem areas of project(s)
•    Responsible for clear individual derivable
•    Adherence to all procedures related to Syngene’s data integrity policies
•    Compliance to Syngene’s quality standards at all times.

• Responsible for designing, synthesizing, and characterizing organic molecules, supporting research projects, and collaborating with interdisciplinary teams.
• The candidate should spend 80% on bench work while managing the team.

Leadership Capabilities:
•    Should be able to convince the team with ideas, generate ideas by the team members and motivate the team to take ownership in executing ideas.
•    Should be able to present ideas and results in front of stake holders convincingly. 

• Should be able to work as an individual contributor for the project.

Syngene Values

All employees will consistently demonstrate alignment with our core values

•     Excellence
•     Integrity
•     Professionalism

Specific requirements for this role

Experience:
•    3-6 years post qualification

Technical/functional Skills:
•    Very competent analytical skills.
•    Sound experience in synthetic organic chemistry reactions
 

Behavioural Skills:
•    Strong commitment to exceptional customer experience, and a high level of dedication, enthusiasm, motivation, and persuasive ability in a team and cross-functional environment. 
•    Excellent speaking-listening-writing skills, attention to details, proactive self-starter
•    Ability to work successfully in a dynamic, ambiguous environment.
•    Ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads.
•    Ability to develop new ideas and creative solutions.
•    Exceptional influencing and leadership skills

Education:
•    Ph. D. or PDF

Equal Opportunity Employer: It is the policy of Syngene to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, colour, 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.