Principal Scientist

vor 1 Monat


Darmstadt, Deutschland Merck KGaA Darmstadt Germany Vollzeit

Work Your Magic with us

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you've got big plans - so do we Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

Your Role:
Core Accountabilities:

- As a chemistry representative or project leader proactively drive projects, facilitate and encourage collaboration and communication with cross-functional colleagues, project team members, and stakeholders.
- Monitor competition, support differentiation strategies, align on assay cascade, and propose follow-up experiments.
- As project lead you will define the project strategy in close alignment with the project team and key stakeholders and you will be accountable for the content of the project presentation at various governance and decision bodies
- Accountable that activities in your area of responsibility are performed according to state-of-the-art knowledge.
- Think out-of-box to find creative and interdisciplinary solutions.
- Expert in a dedicated field contributing to/creating publications, patents or/and talks.
- Collaborating with the scientific community and participating in industry-academia consortia.

Who You Are:

- PhD in organic chemistry or related discipline with a good record of publications in peer reviewed journals.
- 3+ years' experience in organic chemistry as a postdoctoral follow in academic institution or as a scientist in an industrial setting.
- Solid know-how and hands-on expertise of organic synthesis and high level of independency in solving complex scientific problems.
- Knowledge of medicinal chemistry, understanding of state-of-the-art targeting technologies and experience in handling high-potential compounds is a plus.
- Team player with experience working in multidisciplinary and international teams.
- Experience in computational design and synthesis of biologically active molecules or/and large, complex molecules like ADC LP is a plus.
- Experience as a team manager, in collaborating with CRO and prior industrial experience in drug discovery would be preferred.
- International/Oversea research experience is a plus.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills; fluent spoken and written in English.

**What we offer**:We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and believe that it drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress



  • Darmstadt, Deutschland Merck KGaA Darmstadt Germany Vollzeit

    Work Your Magic with us! Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you've got big plans - so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of...


  • Darmstadt, Deutschland Merck KGaA Vollzeit

    Work Your Magic with us! Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you've got big plans '“ so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix...