Title:  Group Lead

JOB DESCRIPTION

GL - Synthetic Organic Chemistry Division

Designation:  Assistant Director- Discovery Chemistry

Job Location: Hyderabad

Department: Synthetic Chemistry

Role Requirements:

A Ph.D. degree with post-doctoral research (~15 years) with excellent communication skills is preferred.

M.Sc. degree (>25 years of industrial experience) with excellent technical and communication skills.

• The candidate must be capable of leading a team of 40-100 FTEs and executing high-profile projects. The group lead should be visionary and develop strategies to meet the market competitiveness in terms of productivity and cost efficiency. The candidate should be exceptional in cross-functional teamwork and customer engagement.

Strategic Responsibilities

Safety:

• Commitment to safety (self, team, lab, and the organization) always
• Ensuring ZERO safety incidents in the lab/organization
• Ensuring ZERO safety non-compliance at the workplace. 
• Reporting incidents (or near-misses) and learnings from those incidents to avoid recurrence
• Near miss reporting 1 per year per employee, Reduction in number of first aid injuries reported compared to previous FY, Review SOPs and checklists for completeness of information related to safety

Quality:

• Ensure compliance with Syngene’s quality standards and services (self and team) always
• ZERO data integrity incidents
• Adhere to the ALCOA+ principles in all data generated. Ensuring adherence to all Syngene policies related to data integrity by all team members.
• Zero repeat audit observations, Zero major and critical observations in external audits, SOP’s vs Practices:
• Review and implement necessary refinements for continuous training, testing, and tracking SOP compliance
• Deviations <= 2% within the fiscal year, tracked monthly

Delivery

• Responsible for Project Health Index: Project planning, Execution, and Deliverables including tracking of KPIs for his/her team and Quality of services (internal/client metrics)
• Achieve per-quarter improvement in key FY24 KPIs, per OU per plan, 4 reactions per FTE/day, 22 steps per FTE per month, 6 compounds/FTE/month, 70 % targets TAT within 30 days
• Set up process, governance & tools for effective, transparent, and collaborative management of the projects.

Engagement:

• Interact with customers, identify their needs, and suggest new chemistry platforms and services that suit their interests.
• Providing excellent service and support to the existing customers to build healthy relationships with them.
• Collaborate with different teams and monitor all aspects of the project, including communication, technology, development, and technology.
• 0% business attrition w.r.t scientific environment and work culture
• Implement a comprehensive client feedback collection and response platform in collaboration with PMO as a service management piece. Demonstrate consistent, sustainable technical and operational improvements per the RCA/CAPA process in Synthetic chemistry

Cost:

• Manage the lifecycle of various lab infrastructure, and instruments.
• Ensure optimum resource utilization and cost efficiency. Manage FH to chemist ratio.
• Maintain above 50 % of 9-level employees in the team and around 20 % of 8-level, Span of control for managers should be 1:7.
• Manage the unbilled resources <7% overall. Team size for 5-II (60-100), 5-I (40-60), 6-II (30-40).
• Gross material cost ≤ 17.0% revenue

Compliance:

• Adhere to the ALCOA+ principles in all the experiments and data generated. Ensuring adherence to Syngene policies related to data integrity by all team members.
• ALCOA+ deviations <= 2% within the fiscal year, tracked monthly, zero data integrity incidents: Breaches that would lead to a material breach with client or regulator
• Gemba walk compliance at 100%, Timesheet compliance at 100%
• Confidentiality compliance
• Ensuring all assigned mandatory training related to data integrity, health, and safety measures are completed on time by all team members.

People:

• Create and develop Leaders. Succession planning for critical roles – Reduce attrition of critical talent by <5%, create succession plans for critical roles
• Build competencies and skills that are required to achieve current and future business needs.