Job Summary
The General Senior Manager directs all operations within the Synthetic Division. They are responsible for driving the technical strategy for route scouting and process optimization, while managing the division’s financial budgets, client relationships, and regulatory workflows. The core objective is ensuring secure, scalable, cost-effective, and fully compliant chemical synthesis programs moving from the benchtop to commercial manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & R&D; Strategy
• Lead the roadmap for overall process chemistry, route optimization, and synthetic design across target portfolios (e.g., small molecules, APIs, intermediates, or specialty polymers).
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• Drive technical innovation via synthetic path evaluation, non-infringing process design, and robust intellectual property (IP) protection strategies.
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• Oversee technology transfer and scale-up operations from initial lab validation protocols into pilot plants and full commercial cGMP production lines.
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• Provide final technical resolution for high-impact process bottlenecks,



stability anomalies, or structural impurities.

Business & Operations Management
• Own the division budget, performing cost-benefit analyses, controlling operational expenditure (OpEx), and managing raw material resource allocation.
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• Optimize cross-functional workflows by collaborating with Quality Control (QC), Quality Assurance (QA), Engineering, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams.
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• Manage external alliances, acting as the primary technical point-of-contact for high-value clients, CRO/CDMO accounts, and third-party vendors.
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• Define divisional KPIs and report key milestones, project performance, and investment strategies directly to executive leadership.

Team Leadership & Safety Culture
• Mentor and develop a technical workforce consisting of laboratory managers, principal scientists, process chemists, and engineers.
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• Enforce rigid EH&S; compliance (Environment, Health, and Safety),

📌 Senior General Manager- Synthetic Division (Karur)
🏢 Shobikaa Impex Private
📍 Karur