Advisor / Senior Advisor Process Scientist - Small Molecule

540 Eli Lilly Services India Pvt Ltd – Hyderabad; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Lilly's Hyderabad Manufacturing & Quality Technical Hub seeks a PhD-level expert to lead process chemistry, with 12+ years in PRD. You will guide safety culture, build teams, and oversee development and technology transfer, shaping scalable processes across Lilly's global supply network.

The role emphasizes robust scientific leadership, collaboration with TT teams, and delivering quality process improvements for API manufacturing in India.

Qualifications

• PhD with 12+ years in chemical development or PRD leadership.
• Strong background in process chemistry and scale-up.
• Experience enabling technology transfer to manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Safety culture lab management and PPE compliance.
• Lead and develop a high-performing process chemistry team.
• Plan, supervise post-commercial process development and scale-up.
• Oversee technical transfer and support PRD/TT collaborations.

Skills

Process Chemistry

People Leadership

Safety Culture

Education

PhD in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering

Job description

About Lilly

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

About Lilly At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it's work worth doing. If you're driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

Manufacturing & Quality Technical Hub, Hyderabad

Lilly's Hyderabad hub is a first-of-its-kind technical center built to lead the manufacturing and quality science agenda for Lilly's global supply network, and the work done here reaches patients in more than 110 countries. This hub oversees contract manufacturing of starting materials and intermediates for API manufacturing in India, managing the full scientific agenda for manufacturing and quality. We're building a cutting-edge scientific organization and looking for top talent in process engineering, chemistry, analytical and data sciences to be part of it. The science you develop here doesn't stay here. It moves through Lilly's global supply network and reaches patients across more than 110 countries who are counting on it.

Lilly has made a strategic investment of more than $1B dollars to establish a Manufacturing and Quality technical hub. This hub will oversee the significant investment in contract manufacturing of starting materials and intermediates for API manufacturing in India and the technical services responsible for managing the scientific agenda for manufacturing and quality. The hub will be recruiting top talent in the areas of process engineering, chemistry, analytical and data sciences to build a cutting-edge scientific organization supporting the exciting manufacturing portfolio of Lilly.

Company Overview

Lilly, a leading innovation-driven corporation, is developing a growing portfolio of pharmaceutical products by applying the latest research from its own worldwide laboratories and from collaborations with eminent scientific organizations. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Lilly makes life better – through medicines and information – for some of the world’s most urgent medical needs. Founded over 145 years ago, the company has sustained a culture that values excellence, integrity, and respect for people. This has resulted in Lilly frequently being ranked as one of the best companies in the world at which to work. Lilly knows its business has prospered because of its employees – people with a talent for innovation and a passion for making a difference by finding treatments for the most stubborn diseases; people whose talent is matched by their generosity, and people with strong values and a determination to prevail, regardless of the challenges. Join our team – and make a difference in improving health for people all over the world!

Key Responsibilities

• Safety culture lab management To ensure that appropriate personal protective equipment's in the laboratory premises are available and follows the safety precautions. Ensure the good administration and housekeeping of the PRD department work area.
• People Leadership Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of process chemists aligned with Lilly culture. Set clear objectives, provide coaching, conduct performance reviews, and support career development. Promote a culture of scientific excellence, collaboration, safety, and compliance. Work as a team and take responsibility with accountability.
• Scientific & Technical Leadership Plan and supervise post commercial, process development of intermediate and drug substances. Design, optimize, and troubleshoot chemical processes with a strong focus on scalability, robustness, safety, cost, and sustainability. Excel in the observation, recordings and reporting skill sets for the scientific data. Literature survey for information concerning specific chemicals, reagents and processes. The Feasibility study of custom products involves close monitoring / supervision. The Process Optimization shall be made on the selected route based on due diligence and literature during the feasibility studies. Prior to designing laboratory experiments for process optimization, the MSDS of all input materials shall be obtained and scrutinized for risk assessment. To improve processes for existing products and improve efficiency in cycle time. Ensure and sign off the experimental data related to process development studies of the NCEs / API intermediate / target molecules manufacturing are recorded in Electronic Notebook (ELN). To write process descriptions in the Technical Package and transfer optimized manufacturing strategies to production. PRD to support the technology transfer team towards the efficient scalability of a given process to the manufacturing site. To evaluate, recommend new technologies and equipment for synthesis, purification and implement their use in PRD and demonstrate the same to TT. To support the clients with respect to all the analytical and CMC needs for each project being handled by PRD. Actively participate in investigation of various complaints and quality related issues like CAPA, closing out the deviations in the manufacturing. To lead multiple projects and teams

Education Requirement

Ph.D. in scientific disciplines of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering / Ph.D + Post Doc in Chemistry (focusing more process chemistry) with 12+ years

Other Information

Some travel (domestic and international) less than 5% may be required.

At Lilly, caring is not only what we do for patients. It is how we work. We believe the people who dedicate themselves to making medicines better deserve an environment that makes their lives better too, one where they are supported, respected, and given the space to do their best work. This is not just a policy. It is who we are.

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Lilly does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

#WeAreLilly At Lilly we strive to ensure our employees are part of a team that cares about them and our shared purpose of making life better for those around the world. How do we do this? We continue to look for ways to include, innovate, accelerate and deliver while maintaining integrity, excellence and respect for people. We hope that you seek to join us on our journey as we create medicine and deliver improved outcomes for patients across the globe! #WeAreLilly