Chemistry Project Director, Eurofins Panlabs Discovery Services

  • Full-time

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labeling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 55,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 55 countries and operating more than 800 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

In 2020, Eurofins generated over the total revenues of EUR 5 billion, and has been among the best-performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Description

  • Play a key role in creating the business plan for chemistry capability establishment including facility construction, capital expenditures, and headcounts recruitment.
  • Play a key role in leading and executing the chemistry capability project. 
  • Play a key role in searching, designing and building up a regulatory compliant facility specialized in chemical synthesis.
  • Recruit right individuals and provide them with leadership, coaching, and career development opportunities. Conduct performance reviews, train/develop, and manage work performance.
  • Lead and manage new chemistry team to achieve organization goals.
  • Supervise and drive synthetic chemistry for small molecule drug discovery projects from hit to lead finding, and lead optimization to candidate selection.
  • Support global and Asia Pac leads and projects of DiscoveryOne™ Integrated Drug Discovery Services, coordinate with project managers, technical directors and study directors.
  • Collaborate effectively with the teams to deliver projects on time with high standard data and to ensure high customer satisfaction levels. Contribute to troubleshooting and technical investigations/analysis.
  • Search strategic and new business opportunities, work closely with the teams to evaluate potential opportunities.
  • Build/ maintain relationships with external partners to achieve organization goals.
  • Ensure efficient resource allocation and bring cross-functional teams together to achieve a common goal
  • Communicate goals clearly to the team to ensure understanding and success in achieving them.
  • Motivate and inspire all team members to do their best work through coaching and lead by example.
  • Strategy formulation/discussion by working closely with the official managers.
  • Promotes the quality system through adhering to the elements of and being familiar with the philosophy, quality statement, quality manual and procedures
  • Promotes health, safety and environmental regulations by ensuring that standards, policies, and procedures are adhered to in compliance with corporate, country, and local requirements

Qualifications

  • Strong background and experience in chemistry facility/ lab establishment, project management and coordination, comprehensively understand regulatory requirement
  • Proven experience in heterocyclin and parallel synthesis (both in solution and solid phase)
  • Proven experience in isolation, purification, characterization of complex organic compounds
  • Experience in team management, guiding and mentoring technical staff in the pharmaceutical industry
  • Outstanding communication and presentation skills in English/Chinese
  • PhD degree in chemistry or chemistry related fields, postdoctoral experience is strongly recommended
  • Strong track of publications, patents, contributions in the field of organic synthesis, heterocyclic, medicinal chemistry
  • To adapt quickly and agilely
  • Willing to work under tight timelines 
  • Willing to demonstrate creativity and innovation
  • Contribute actively to our collaborative team culture
  • Aptitude to work with autonomy and effectiveness under comprehensive guidelines
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