Senior Synthetic Organic Chemist

2 weeks ago


Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Reed Scientific Full time

** Job Title**: Senior Synthetic Organic Chemist

**Location**: Cambridgeshire

**Salary**: Competitive with Benefits

Reed Scientific are recruiting for a Senior Synthetic Organic Chemist with a PhD or equivalent with industrial synthetic chemistry experience. Our client is a pharmaceutical company who provide affordable medicines to improve lives. The senior syntheticchemist should have experience in the development of routes to complex molecules. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the early development and optimisation of new synthetic routes for to improve the manufacturing processes of complex APIs andintermediates.

**The role**
- The Senior Synthetic Chemist will take the lead in the development and optimisation of complex synthetic targets. Including conducting the identification and evaluation of possible routes, assessment of these processes on a laboratory scale and the successfultransfer to manufacturing sites as required. They will ensure projects are delivered to the agreed schedule and within specification.
- They will collaborate with fellow Scientists, the Project Management team, IP, the Regulatory and Supply Chain to define project milestones and deliverables.
- They will develop solutions, enabling increased process efficiency through the identification, analysis and implementation of new technologies.
- They will present their work at project review meetings with colleagues in Cambridge and other sites.
- There will be occasions where time will need to be spent at other sites to facilitate technology transfer.

**Qualifications and experience required**
- A Ph.D. (or equivalent) in synthetic organic chemistry or a related field
- Excellent synthetic chemistry knowledge (theory and practical)
- Industry experience of process development and technology identification
- Proven experience of development and implementation of synthetic routes to complex target molecules is essential
- Knowledge of current industrial methods, practices and trends will be an advantage
- Excellent communication skills
- Good documentation skills and practices are essential.
- Ability to prioritise workload in order to meet deadlines so that project objectives are met.



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