Senior Principal Investigator

GL - Synthetic Organic Chemistry Division

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Role Requirements

• 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.
  

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-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

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
  

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