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About the Role
Provide scientific leadership and oversight for external teams of scientists, focusing on synthetic route design, process optimization, and API delivery for the company's small-molecule pipeline. Collaborate with internal and external partners to solve complex chemistry and process development challenges, ensuring timely API deliveries.
Responsibilities
- Provide scientific leadership and day-to-day technical oversight for process chemistry activities conducted at external partners.
- Guide synthetic route design, route scouting, process optimization, reaction understanding, impurity-control strategy, process robustness, and preparation of intermediates and APIs.
- Serve as a key scientific interface between external partners and internal project teams, ensuring that technical priorities, deliverables, risks, and timelines are clearly understood.
- Critically evaluate experimental plans, data packages, development reports, and technical proposals from external partners.
- Identify emerging scientific, operational, quality, and delivery risks, and work with internal and external stakeholders to establish practical mitigation plans.
- Apply innovative and rigorous problem-solving approaches to complex synthetic chemistry and process-development challenges.
- Collaborate with Process Chemistry, Discovery Process Chemistry, Enabling Technologies, Chemical Engineering Research & Development, Analytical Research & Development, Quality, and other partner functions to advance programs and support successful API delivery.
- Contribute to technical and strategic decisions for assigned projects or a portfolio of programs through clear, data-based recommendations.
- Establish productive relationships with scientists and management at external partner organizations and promote transparent communication and timely issue escalation.
- Support effective knowledge transfer between external partners and internal project teams.
- Promote high standards of scientific rigor, documentation, quality, data integrity, safety, and compliance across external activities.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of external capability strategies, working practices, scientific standards, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
- Mentor and support the scientific development of colleagues and external-partner scientists, as appropriate.
- Communicate project progress, technical risks, key decisions, and recommended actions clearly to scientific and cross-functional stakeholders.
Requirements
- Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry or a closely related field.
- Relevant pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry experience in synthetic chemistry, process chemistry, or closely related drug-development activities.
- Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex scientific activities and effectively guide multidisciplinary or external project teams.
- Strong knowledge of synthetic organic chemistry, route design, process development, reaction optimization, impurity control, and scale-up considerations.
- Demonstrated record of delivering high-quality scientific results through innovation, sound judgment, and proactive problem-solving.
- Ability to critically analyze complex experimental data, identify technical risks, and recommend practical development strategies.
- Experience collaborating across scientific and operational functions to achieve project objectives and delivery commitments.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Effective negotiation, influencing, collaboration, and relationship-management skills.
- Ability to work effectively across organizational boundaries, cultures, geographies, and time zones.
- Demonstrated commitment to scientific excellence, data integrity, quality, safety, compliance, and ethical decision-making.
- Evidence of scientific contribution through publications, presentations, patents, internal technical reports, process-development accomplishments, or other relevant forms of scientific impact.
- Ability and willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time, based on business needs.
- Experience providing scientific oversight for work performed at contract development and manufacturing organizations or other external research and development partners.
- Experience with synthetic route development and process scale-up from laboratory studies through multikilogram or manufacturing-scale execution.
- Experience supporting API deliveries across one or more stages of pharmaceutical development.
- Familiarity with technology transfer, external manufacturing, analytical control strategies, process safety, quality systems, and regulatory expectations relevant to pharmaceutical development.
- Experience working on multiple projects or programs with competing technical priorities and timelines.
- Experience mentoring scientists or providing technical guidance to project teams.
- Demonstrated ability to establish effective working relationships with external scientists, project leaders, and partner-site management.
Skills
- Analytical Chemistry
- Chemical Synthesis
- Chemistry
- Clinical Judgment
- Contract Research Organizations (CROs)
- Cross-Cultural Awareness
- Data Analysis
- Next Generation Science Standards
- Organic Chemistry
- Research Development
- Researching
- Scientific Analysis
- Scientific Presentations
- Scientific Research
- Scientific Reviews
- Small Molecules
- Synthetic Chemistry
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Regular
- Remote
Experience Level
- Associate Principal Scientist
Education Level
- Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry or a closely related field.
About the Company
- We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.