Head - R&D - PhD - Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient

Position - Head of R & D - API, for a reputed Pharma (API) Organisation.

Position is based in Mumbai.

- Individual will lead a team of chemists from R&D, Technology Transfer & Projects. Candidates should have experience in Product Development, with experience in producing cost-effective, non-infringing, safe and eco-friendly technologies for the synthesis of reliable APIs and intermediates.

Education: PhD - Organic Chemistry with around 12-18 years of experience in Pharmaceutical API Companies.

Job Description : 

To lead a team of chemists from R&D, tech-transfer and project

- To develop and produce cost-effective, non-infringing, safe and eco-friendly technologies for the synthesis of reliable APIs and intermediates.

- Creative capabilities in the areas of organic chemistry in designing and conducting multi step organic synthesis that is very much attractive from commercial aspects,

- To Identifying and select API molecules based on developing Non-infringing process for API molecules

- Support in transformations in synthetic organic chemistry aimed at target molecule from R&D scale to plant scale.

- Good skills in interpretation of NMR, Mass spectra,, IR, GC, HPLC and XRD.

- Strongly self motivated, believing in team work and efficient problem solver, having good skills for development of subordinate potentials.

- Exhibit Good Laboratory Practice.

- Efficient handling of High pressure, Hazardous, Highly moisture sensitive and other specialized reactions.

- API- cost effective process development.

- Optimizing the process by considering the yield, quality, cost and safety operations of the process.

- Data generation for DMF filing of final APIs.

- Preparation of Process Development Report/TTD to transfer technology to pilot plant.

- Impurity impact on process, identification & synthesis

- Development of new API molecules and technology transfer of the same.

- Process improvement for cost reduction and easy technology transfer.

- To develop business opportunities from RFQs

- To facilitate the smooth and effective flow of resources between departments like R&D, QA and technology transfer.

- To prioritise the customer issue and communicate with necessary action