AVP - Medicinal Chemistry

Job Title: AVP – Medicinal Chemistry

Location: Hyderabad, India

Perm/Contract/ Full-time/Part-time: Permanent

On-site/Hybrid/Remote: On-site

Who We Are

Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory services for businesses of all sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.

Our Outsourcing service delivers recruitment for some of the world’s top employers, and we are currently recruiting on behalf of one our client which is a biotechnology company that is learning from life’s chemistry to create better medicines faster. It uses AI-powered tools to identify and characterize a wide range of molecules produced by living organisms—the vast majority of which have never been explored by science—creating a database of chemical biodiversity: the library of life. By growing, organizing, translating, and searching this unique library, it learns from life’s evolved solutions to address today’s pressing medical needs.

The Role

Our client is seeking a AVP - Medicinal Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical division.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to join a global team, providing top-tier service to existing and prospective clients while expanding the business on a product and global level.

The successful candidate will be responsible for acquiring new clients, managing existing relationships, and contributing to the company's mission of becoming a Top Clearer worldwide in commodity markets.

Main purpose of the role:

Asst. Vice President, Medicinal Chemistry with a demonstrated track record of delivery of hits, leads and clinical candidates for advancing them into human clinical trials. You will recruit PhD and M. Sc. synthetic chemists and mentor them as medicinal chemists and manage their performance and improve their productivity. You will collaborate with your peers in Medicinal Chemistry and work as a team to increase delivery of compounds to the Clinical Pipeline. You will also collaborate with Senior Leaders in other functional departments such as ADME, Analytical Sciences and Pharmacology and deliver high value molecules.

You get to collaborate on

• Medicinal Chemistry of Lead Generation and Lead Optimization of Pipeline Projects.
• Understand Structure Activity Relationships and Structure Property Relationships of various projects.
• Collaborate with Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology, Analytical, ADME and Site Leadership.
• Develop appropriate flow schemes of relevant in vitro and in vivo assays.
• Appropriate allocation of resources for maximum cost effectiveness.
• Work effectively with Project Management.
• You work with the site safety head and emphasize the importance of safe practices in the chemistry laboratories.

Who will thrive in this role?

• Doctor of Philosophy in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.
• 15-20 years of post-PhD experience in Medicinal Chemistry.
• Proven track record of delivery of hits, leads and clinical candidates to the pharmaceutical industry.
• Management and mentoring of synthetic chemists.
• Good understanding of intellectual property of medicinally valuable compounds with respect to composition of matter, method of use and chemical processes.
• Strong understanding of safety practices in organic synthesis laboratories.

This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organisations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.

Client promotes collaboration and aims to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential.

As we are continuously hiring for all our clients in the region, we will retain your CV in our database for any other positions that may fit your profile. Therefore, please let us know if you are not agreeable to that.