Scientist – Organic Chemistry Process Development

Cambridge Science Park
We are a global leader in the development and manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, focused on specialist niches with expertise in highly regulated and complex chemistries. Formerly part of Johnson Matthey, we have over 50 years of experience navigating the challenges of the global healthcare industry, and nurturing long-standing, trusted customer relationships. Operating within two divisions, Generics and Originators, we deliver a differentiated service offering to pharma and biotech customers for every stage in the drug development lifecycle.

Job Description
The Scientist position requires an in-depth understanding of synthetic organic chemistry to design, develop, and optimize chemical processes that enable safe and reliable manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) on larger scales. The Scientist role serves as the technical lead on projects and is tasked with creating an understanding of how chemical processes work on a fundamental level as well as how those chemical processes will translate from a laboratory to a manufacturing environment while delivering projects on target with quantity, quality, time, and budget goals. The job also involves the manufacture of developed processes in a dedicated production laboratory at Cambridge Science Park.

Responsibilities
Designs appropriate plans to meet complex research project goals within the required timeline and budget.
Routinely analyses and defines problems, collects relevant data, recognizes patterns, and draws valid conclusions.
Recommends potential courses of action to clients and team leaders by providing solid results, findings, and technical solutions to project issues / day to day problems.
Expert in independently synthesizing, purifying, and analysing organic chemical intermediates and active pharmaceutical ingredients using a broad range of synthetic and analytical techniques.
Keeps accurate, legible, and complete records of all experiments and observations.
Generates written progress reports and clearly presents scientific results to clients.
Exhibits a high level of safety awareness and conducts lab operations in a safe manner as well as holds others accountable for safe behaviour in the work environment.
Multi-tasks responsibilities including laboratory work, preparing scientific reports and documents, presenting scientific findings to clients and management, using scientific literature to solve advanced technical problems.
Performs additional scientific tasks with a high level of independence such as:
Continuous learning and growth in new scientific fields and/or deepening level of competence in major field of expertise.
Evaluates potential new projects and techniques.
Shares special skills and expertise with other team members and departments such as Analytical Development, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, and Production groups.
Learns and follows all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Are you the ideal candidate?
You will have:
• PhD in Organic Chemistry or equivalent experience in a pharmaceutical industry.
• MS in Chemistry or equivalent related experience in a pharmaceutical industry.
• BS in Chemistry or equivalent related experience in a pharmaceutical industry.
• Previous technical experience in understanding process and research development of APIs.
• Ability to lead projects and provide direction to various levels of Chemist.
• Experienced in designing, developing, and optimizing synthetic routes, producing and/or scaling up intermediates and APIs.
• Ideally some experience in Kilo-Lab scale production chemistry
• Experience with common analytical techniques such as: HPLC, GC, NMR, UV, LC-MS.
• Experience in a GMP environment.
• Knowledge of MS Project. Experience in establishing integrated plans with resource and task constraints.