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 
  M.Sc. 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 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  
  
  
   
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  
 -  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  
  
  -  Build competencies and skills that are required to achieve current and future business needs.