Key Responsibilities:
Safety culture lab management:
- To ensure that appropriate personal protective equipmentu2019s in the laboratory premises are available and follows the safety precautions.
- Ensure the good administration and housekeeping of the PRD department work area.
People Leadership
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of process chemists aligned with Lilly culture.
- Set clear objectives, provide coaching, conduct performance reviews, and support career development.
- Promote a culture of scientific excellence, collaboration, safety, and compliance.
- Work as a team and take responsibility with accountability.
Scientific & Technical Leadership
- Plan and supervise post commercial, process development of intermediate and drug substances.
- Design, optimize, and troubleshoot chemical processes with a strong focus on scalability, robustness, safety, cost, and sustainability.
- Excel in the observation, recordings and reporting skill sets for the scientific data.
- Literature survey for information concerning specific chemicals, reagents and processes.
- The Feasibility study of custom products involves close monitoring / supervision.
- The Process Optimization shall be made on the selected route based on due diligence and literature during the feasibility studies.
- Prior to designing laboratory experiments for process optimization, the MSDS of all input materials shall be obtained and scrutinized for risk assessment.
- To improve processes for existing products and improve efficiency in cycle time.
- Ensure and sign off the experimental data related to process development studies of the NCEs / API intermediate / target molecules manufacturing are recorded in Electronic Notebook (ELN).
- To write process descriptions in the Technical Package and transfer optimized manufacturing strategies to production.
- PRD to support the technology transfer team towards the efficient scalability of a given process to the manufacturing site.
- To evaluate, recommend new technologies and equipment for synthesis, purification and implement their use in PRD and demonstrate the same to TT.
- To support the clients with respect to all the analytical and CMC needs for each project being handled by PRD.
- Actively participate in investigation of various complaints and quality related issues like CAPA, closing out the deviations in the manufacturing.
- To lead multiple projects and teams
Education Requirement:
- Ph.D. in scientific disciplines of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering /Ph.D + Post Doc in Chemistry (focusing more process chemistry) with 12+ years
Other Information:
- Some travel (domestic and international) less than 5% may be required.
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