Role

Our Hatfield site has an opportunity for Senior Scientist to join them on a 12 month initial FTC.

Are you a motivated medicinal chemist, experienced in modern purification techniques?

Have you got a PhD in a chemistry related subject and industry experience?

Based at our site in client site in Hatfield, you will be working as part of a team of enthusiastic medicinal chemists designing and synthesising novel compounds with the ultimate goal being to identify a potential candidate suitable for drug development.

What you’ll be doing:

• Plan and execute efficient synthetic routes to deliver final compounds to benefit your assigned project.
• Solve problems with synthetic routes and individual reactions or purifications to access target compounds aligned with project priorities.
• Follow local legislation and CRL policies and procedures on safety and quality. 
• Act with due care for the safety of yourself and others at all times. 
• Record own work and results to a high standard and in timely fashion in CRL electronic lab notebook.
• Present results, issues and plans around your own work at regular internal or external meetings for your project and client.
• Clearly communicate status of your own work, issues encountered and proposed solutions with your chemistry or project leader.
• Proficient in practical use of standard chemistry lab equipment to efficiently and safely complete reactions.
• Analyse reactions and isolated materials by LC/MS, NMR and other techniques as required to demonstrate structural identity and purity of intermediates and final compounds.
• Collaborate with chemistry colleagues to maintain a tidy and safe lab environment.
• Share own knowledge of drug discovery, particularly in synthetic and medicinal chemistry, with peers.
• Suggest solutions to synthetic challenges that impact across your project team. 
• Suggest new target designs to address key project issues.
• Demonstrate consistent key contributions that drive project progression.
• Review work of colleagues for quality and accuracy, as appropriate.
• Release high quality chemistry data to clients, as appropriate.
• Interrogate project data and use understanding to guide own work.
• Demonstrate strategic awareness of project priorities and guide own and others’ work, as appropriate.

Skills and Qualifications:

• An effective communicator and team player.
• To have good attention to detail, organisational and time management skills.
• To have a dynamic, can-do attitude and a flexible approach to problem solving.
• A desire to develop a career discovering new medicines for the future.
• A commitment to personal development to enable future career progression.
• PhD qualified within a chemistry related discipline or BSc / MSc (minimum 2.1) within a chemistry related discipline with some years experience in a lab-based environment.
• A passion for practical synthetic chemistry.
• To be able to work without supervision and as part of a team.
• Track record of providing solutions to technical problems of increasing complexity within projects.
• To be able to interpret NMR and mass spectrometry data.
• Experience of using modern synthetic techniques and purification tools.
• Familiarity with standard chemistry software e.g. ChemDraw and SciFinder.

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What we offer you:

• A very comprehensive benefits package from day one, including a large pension contribution, private medical for you (and can add family members), private dental care, critical illness cover, bonus and more!
  
• Access to great discounts via our employee discount scheme.
  
• Global opportunities and strong career progression.
  
• The chance to work on several varied projects and liaise globally and nationally with other business areas.
  
• To be able make a difference to health and wellbeing of people.
  
• To continue your own career growth.
  
• Parental leave.
  
• Group Life Assurance and Group Income Protection.
  
• Remote GP access 24/7.
  
• Well-being support and initiatives.
  
• Cycle to work scheme.