JOB DESCRIPTION
GL - Synthetic Organic Chemistry Division
Designation: Sr Principal Scientist /Sr Principal Investigator
Job Location:Hyderabad
Department:Synthetic Chemistry
Role Requirements:
A Ph.D. degree with post-doctoral research (10 years) with excellent communication skills is preferred
. degree (>20 years of industrial experience) with excellent technical and communication skills.
- The candidate must be capable of leading a team of 20-40 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 Syngenes 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 SOPs 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 FY25 KPIs per OU per plan 3 reactions per FTE/day 18 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.
- 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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC