Senior Research Investigator

Title: Senior Research Investigator

Date: 14 Nov 2024

Job Location: Hyderabad

Pay Grade

Year of Experience:

Job Description

Level 7-II (Senior Research Investigator or Senior Research Scientist)

Job Location: Hyderabad

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.

• 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.
  
  

Safety

Strategic Responsibilities

• 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 efficiency Manage 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.

People

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