Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION
Level 7-I (Research Scientist)
Job Location: Hyderabad/Bangalore
Department: Synthetic Chemistry
Role Requirements:
Ph.D. degree with post-Doctoral research with excellent communication skills is preferred with minimum 2 years' experience in CRO industry.
M.Sc. degree (
15 years industrial experience) with excellent technical and communication skills.

• The candidate should manage a team of 7-12 scientists and be capable of designing scheme, troubleshoot, problem solve independently and execute high-profile project(s). The person should be flexible working shifts as per the organizational policy. The candidate should be excellent in cross functional teamwork and in 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-compliances at 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 to comply 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.
• Maintain confidentiality
• 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, Deliverables including tracking of KPIs for his/her team and Quality of services (internal/client metrics)
• Achieve per-quarter improvement in key FY25 KPIs, per OU per plan, 18-20 steps per FTE per month, 6 compounds/FTE/month, 70% targets TAT within 30 days for deliverables

0.1 g scale and 5 CE/FTE/month for scales
0.1 g scale. * Help the Group Leaders and Head of the department in managing the process of governance & tools for effective, transparent, and collaborative management of the projects.
Engagement:

• Good in engaging the customers (weekly reports, experimental for completed final compounds etc). Zero flaw in presentations and report, real time and flawless communication
• 0% business attrition w.r.t scientific environment and work culture
• Support in implementing comprehensive client feedback collection and response platform in collaboration with PMO as service management piece. Demonstrate consistent, sustainable technical and operational improvements per RCA/CAPA process in Synthetic chemistry
• Excellent in team and cross-functional engagement

Cost:

• Manage lifecycle of various lab infrastructure, instruments.
• Ensure optimum resource utilization and cost efficiencyManage FH to chemist ratio.
• Maintain above 50 % of Scientist-1 in the team and around 25 % of Scientist-2 employees.

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.

• Leadership Next and Succession planning for critical roles - Reduce critical talent attrition by

5%, create succession plans for critical roles * Build competencies and skills that are required to achieve current and future business needs.
Technical/functional Skills:

• The candidate should have excellent knowledge of modern synthetic methodology including asymmetric synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry, catalysis and the reaction mechanism is expected.
• Should be expert in synthetic problem solving/troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication skills including face to face and virtual interactions with team and clients. Must have exceptional Presentation skills.
• The candidate should maintain an accurate scientific notebook, draft concise written reports for publications.

Managerial Skills:

• Expertise in handling multiple collaborations.
• Demonstrated in handling a team size of 7-12 FTEs
• Worked effectively with interdisciplinary teams.
• Efficient Lab management skills
• The Leader must demonstrate the essential qualities of People Management.

• Giving & receiving performance-enhancing feedback
• Setting clear performance expectations
• Conducting challenging performance conversations
• Coaching individuals toward improved performance
• Delegating tasks
• Creating accountability
• Lead the change