R&D Team Leader Process Chemistry | API / Active Ingredients

R&D Team Leader – Process Chemistry | API / Active Ingredients

We are hiring an experienced R&D Team Leader – Process Chemistry to lead process development, scale-up and technology transfer for API/active ingredients and intermediates.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor R&D chemists.
• Develop and optimize scalable chemical processes.
• Handle laboratory to kilo/pilot and plant-scale scale-up.
• Drive technology transfer from R&D to manufacturing.
• Troubleshoot scale-up and plant-related process issues.
• Optimize processes for yield, purity, cost and safety.
• Support impurity control, crystallization, distillation and other purification processes.
• Coordinate with Production, QA and QC teams.
• Support process validation and commercialization.

Requirements

• M.Sc./Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry or Chemistry.
• 12+ years of relevant experience preferred.
• Strong hands-on experience in Process R&D / Process Chemistry.
• Experience with API, agrochemical active ingredients or chemical intermediates.
• Proven experience in kg-scale, pilot-plant and plant-scale operations.
• Strong technology-transfer and troubleshooting experience.
• Experience leading R&D teams.
• Good knowledge of HPLC, GC, LC-MS, NMR and process purification techniques.

Not suitable for candidates primarily from medicinal chemistry, NCE discovery, biochemistry or QC without significant process-development and scale-up experience.