Senior Research Investigator

Date: 3 Sept 2025

Location:

Kolthur Shamirpet, Medchal, TG, IN, 500078

Custom Field 1: Discovery Services

Job Description

Level 7-II (Senior Research Investigator or Senior Research Scientist)

Job Location: Hyderabad

Department: Synthetic Chemistry

About Syngene : Syngene (www.syngeneintl.com) is an innovation-led contract research, development and manufacturing organization offering integrated scientific services from early discovery to commercial supply.

At Syngene, safety is at the heart of everything we do personally and professionally. Syngene has placed safety at par with business performance with shared responsibility and accountability, including following safety guidelines, procedures and SOPs, in letter and spirit

Mandatory expectation for all roles as per Syngene safety guidelines

• Overall adherence to safe practices and procedures of oneself and the teams aligned
• Contributing to development of procedures, practices and systems that ensures safe operations and compliance to company’s integrity & quality standards
• Driving a corporate culture that promotes environment, health, and safety (EHS) mindset and operational discipline at the workplace at all times.
• Ensuring safety of self, teams and lab/plant by adhering to safety protocols and following environment, health, and safety (EHS) requirements at all times in the workplace.
• Ensure all assigned mandatory trainings related to data integrity, health, and safety measures are completed on time by all members of the team including self
• Compliance to Syngene’ s quality standards at all times
• Hold self and their teams accountable for the achievement of safety goals
• Govern and Review safety metrics from time to time
  
  

• The candidate should manage a team of 7-12 scientists and be capable of designing scheme, troubleshoot, problem solve independently and execute high-profile project(s). The person should be flexible working shifts as per the organizational policy. The candidate should be excellent in cross functional teamwork and in customer engagement.
  
  

• Commitment to safety (self, team, lab and the organization) always
• Ensuring ZERO safety incidents in the lab/organization
• Ensuring ZERO safety non-compliances at 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
  
  

• Responsible for Project Health Index: Project planning, Execution, 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, 18-20 steps per FTE per month, 6 compounds/FTE/month, 70% targets TAT within 30 days for deliverables <0.1 g scale and 5 CE/FTE/month for scales >0.1 g scale.
• Help the Group Leaders and Head of the department in managing the process of governance & tools for effective, transparent, and collaborative management of the projects.
  
  

• Good in engaging the customers (weekly reports, experimental for completed final compounds etc). Zero flaw in presentations and report, real time and flawless communication
• 0% business attrition w.r.t scientific environment and work culture
• Support in implementing comprehensive client feedback collection and response platform in collaboration with PMO as service management piece. Demonstrate consistent, sustainable technical and operational improvements per RCA/CAPA process in Synthetic chemistry
• Excellent in team and cross-functional engagement
  
  

• Manage lifecycle of various lab infrastructure, instruments.
• Ensure optimum resource utilization and cost efficiencyManage FH to chemist ratio.
• Maintain above 50 % of Scientist-1 in the team and around 25 % of Scientist-2 employees.
  
  

• The candidate should have excellent knowledge of modern synthetic methodology including asymmetric synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry, catalysis and the reaction mechanism is expected.
• Should be expert in synthetic problem solving/troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication skills including face to face and virtual interactions with team and clients. Must have exceptional Presentation skills.
• The candidate should maintain an accurate scientific notebook, draft concise written reports for publications.
  
  

• Expertise in handling multiple collaborations.
• Demonstrated in handling a team size of 7-12 FTEs
• Worked effectively with interdisciplinary teams.
• Efficient Lab management skills
• The Leader must demonstrate the essential qualities of People Management.
  
  

• Giving & receiving performance-enhancing feedback
• Setting clear performance expectations
• Conducting challenging performance conversations
• Coaching individuals toward improved performance
• Delegating tasks
• Creating accountability
• Lead the change
  

• It is the policy of Syngene to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable legislation or local law. In addition, Syngene will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.