Senior Advisor/ Director - Small Molecule Process Development Steward

Eli Lilly Eli Lilly · Pharma · Hyderabad, India

Senior Advisor/Director role in Small Molecule Process Development at Eli Lilly, focusing on leading teams, managing safety, and overseeing the scientific and technical aspects of chemical process development for drug substances and intermediates. The role involves planning, optimizing, troubleshooting, and transferring chemical processes, with a strong emphasis on scalability, robustness, safety, cost, and sustainability. Requires a Ph.D. in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering with 12+ years of experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Plan and supervise post commercial, process development of intermediate and drug substances.
  2. Design, optimize, and troubleshoot chemical processes with a strong focus on scalability, robustness, safety, cost, and sustainability.
  3. Ensure and sign off the experimental data related to process development studies of the NCEs / API intermediate / target molecules manufacturing are recorded in Electronic Notebook (ELN).
  4. To write process descriptions in the Technical Package and transfer optimized manufacturing strategies to production.
  5. To evaluate, recommend new technologies and equipment for synthesis, purification and implement their use in PRD and demonstrate the same to TT.

Skills

Required

  • Ph.D. in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
  • 12+ years of experience in process chemistry
  • Process development
  • Chemical process optimization
  • Scalability
  • Robustness
  • Safety
  • Cost optimization
  • Sustainability
  • Technology transfer
  • Team leadership
  • Scientific data recording and reporting
  • Literature survey
  • Risk assessment
  • Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN)

Nice to have

  • Post Doc in Chemistry