Principal Research Scientist

Jiuzhou Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd is a leading small molecule and TIDES CDMO company with facilities in the United States, Germany and China. The Konstanz site (founded in 2024) focuses on small molecule chemistry services to international pharmaceutical development customers. The site offers high quality and high-speed CMC development services from preclinical studies to late stage process development.

Position Description

• Responsible for leading highly technical chemical development projects in a customer-facing role, coordinate internal project team(s) ensuring successful project deliveries and high customer satisfaction.
• Using their technical expertise to propose new, innovative solutions to various organic chemistry problems and realize them in the laboratory.
• Clearly present and communicate results to customers, represent their own project on customer meetings, drive strategic discussions with customers.
• Documents their experimental work at a high standard and in compliance with set expectations.
• Mentors team members in process development, expert internal consultant for chemical development related questions.
• Leads quotation efforts and independently translate customer requests into competitive project plans.
• Maintains a safe and tidy work environment in their own work area, complying with all Health and Safety rules and expectations.
• Supports Business Development efforts as required, to attract customers and new projects.

Qualifications

Technical skills

• Synthetic laboratory skills: Expert at carrying out laboratory scale experiments (from reactions to isolations) in organic synthesis, high quality experimental work and data collection skills.
• Practical experience with scaling up chemical processes beyond laboratory scale or transferring processes to manufacturing.
• Expert at analyzing analytical data: NMR, GC-(MS), LC-(MS), with user level experience in all areas.
• Expert level data analysis, documentation and reporting skills.
• Proficient in MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, etc.) and scientific software.
• Basic understanding of process safety techniques is a plus.
• Team player: enjoys working as part of a team and openly shares opinion with colleagues.
• Ownership: owns their area of responsibilities, independently and proactively organizes ways of working to suit team goals.
• Communicator: expertly summarizes and presents their project work both internally and to customers.

Experience

• PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry with 3+ years of experience in pharmaceutical process development.
• Professional proficiency in English and German (or willingness to learn German).
• Good understanding of phase appropriate CMC development requirements in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience with kinetics, high throughput experimentation, continuous processing, PAT or technology transfer is a plus.

Compensation and Location

• Company bonus.
• Konstanz, Germany, on-site role.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level.

Employment type

• Full-time.

Job function

• Manufacturing.
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Wholesale Drugs and Sundries.