Manager/Senior Manager- R&D

Role & responsibilities

• Encompassing literature survey
• Identifying techno commercially attractive and non infringing route for fluoro-specialty molecules identified for commercialization in time bound manner.
• Develop & standardize industrially feasible processes and also meet long term cost targets.
• Identify & develop new products.
• Prepare feasibility report, cost analysis report, monthly progress report and TDR
• Demonstrate/validate the lab scale process up to commercial scale.

• Ensure all activities under his/her control and supervision are compliant with all the laws of land and statutory requirement.
• Conduct all operation of function, ensuring social responsibility and accountabilities by following the company guideline of the same.
• Be responsible for ethical operation under his control.
• Be responsible for prevention, detection and reporting of bribery and other forms of corruption including breach of code of conduct and other company regulation.
• Avoid all such activity that could lead to or imply breach of code of conduct, anti-

bribery and anti-corruption etc.

• Formulate safety policies and procedures
• Conduct risk timely assessments.
• Train all employees in your health and safety procedures.
• Conduct frequent safety inspections and checks
• Demonstrate visible felt leadership
• Understand & educate the importance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

• Doing literature search of the enquiries received from the clients & making their project proposals.
• Preparing costing and timelines for the enquiries from the clients.
• Planning of the project work as per the timeline required by clients.
• Identifying vendors for RMs, raising PRs and ensuring the timely arrival of RMs.
• Ensuring the quality of RMs, intermediates and final products as per specifications.
• Ensuring the timely execution of the project work and timely dispatch of the final products to the clients.
• Timely communication of project requirements to procurement team for material requirements, ADL team for analytical support and marketing team for dispatch of materials.
• Prepare the SOPs and ensuring that all SOPs are followed while carrying out the project work.
• Helping & guiding the group members in developing experimental skills & proper documentation as per GLP/ IMS.
• Preparing the presentations and final project reports.
• Taking the processes developed in the R & D to the commercial scale.
• Contribute in trouble-shooting & fine tuning of in-house manufacturing processes, as and when required.
• Contributing in additional responsibility assigned by the supervisor in the area of material procurement (preparing specifications), material storage, materials disposal, general maintenance of laboratory & equipments.
• Doing complete literature /patent search required in the project work using Scifinder, Reaxys, ROW-2 and other software packages.
• If required, visit universities or other organizations for literature / patent search.
• Prepare the literature/patent search reports.
• Educate subordinates for literature/patent search.
• Developing the non-infringing processes for the enquiry based products, if it is requirement of the client.
• Developing non-infringing processes for new products based on building blocks available with GFL.
• Preparation of SOPs for all the processes to be followed & equipment's to be handled during the completion of the project work.
• Ensure the proper documentation/filing of literature, patents, experimental data (laboratory journals), internal & external communication, project reports, SOPs and so on.
• Proper communication (written /verbal /presentation) with clients and vendors.
• Proper communication (written /verbal /presentation) across vertical & horizontal reporting lines.
• Good project management
• Improve soft skills of group members.
• Work on the time management, communication skills and team work within a group.
• Counseling and coaching of group members as and when required.
• Training group members for implementation of SOPs and working with SAP module.

Preferred candidate profile

• Lead a team of scientist and chemists for new products / process development and improvement of the existing products.
• Knowledge and understanding of synthetic methods, analytical methods and relevant products.
• Excellent skills in interpretation of analytical data from UV, IR, NMR, GC, GCMS & HPLC, LCMS, MS and so on.
• Well versed with GLP, GMP and IMS guidelines.
• Understanding of literature/ patents.
• Understanding and accomplishment of Customer requirements.
• Knowledge of SAP & IMS.