Title: Medicinal Chemistry Scientist
Job Role: Group Leader – Medicinal Chemistry
Job location: Hyderabad
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
- Hold self and their teams accountable for the achievement of safety goals
- Govern and Review safety metrics from time to time
Job Purpose: Responsible for handling large groups for Synthetic Chemistry projects catering to multiple clients.
Key Responsibilities:
Scientific Responsibilities:
- Overall understanding of the project / projects. Designing feasible synthetic routes for the targets.
- Proactively identify and escalate potential issues
- Maintain contingency plans and rapidly resolve the problems as they arise, if required, in consultation with the stakeholders.
- Discussion of project progress with the client through teleconferences/video conferences as per requirement
- Providing periodical reports on a need basis and submitting a comprehensive final report upon completion of the project.
- Responsible for the overall development of the reporting team leaders.
Administrative Responsibilities:
- Project & resource management monitor day-to-day progress and ensure deadlines are met.
- Interface with the business development team.
- Partner with global customers and internal teams to ensure a coordinated approach from project initiation through to successful close out.
- Responsible for overall maintenance of system, infrastructure / instruments in the lab.
- Ph.D./PDF in Organic /Medicinal Chemistry or relevant field.
- M.Sc. in Organic/Medicinal Chemistry
Technical / functional Skills:
- Possess a very high scientific capability.
- Knowledge of route scouting.
- Expert in synthetic organic chemistry from small scale to medium scale.
- Sound knowledge of Process safety and hazard evaluation.
- Excellent cGMP and regulatory knowledge.
- Strong knowledge of Data analysis software.
- Strong Client communication skills.
- Cross-departmental interaction.
Experience: Minimum 10 years of experience for Ph.D./ Minimum 20 years for M.Sc.
Behavioral Skills:
- Sound interpersonal skills.
- Good Team skills
- Time Management skills
- Strong system thinking and trouble shooting ability.
- Sound leadership
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
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