Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemical Biology at Eli Lilly and Company

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Organization Overview:

At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. For more than 140 years, we have worked tirelessly to discover medicines that make life better. These discoveries start in Lilly Research Laboratories, where our scientists work to create new medicines that will help solve our world’s greatest health challenges.

Protomer Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lilly, a startup within Lilly, that focuses on insulins, chemical biology, molecular switches and peptidic macrocycles platforms. This position is focused on deep technology development in chemical biology and diabetes medicines.   

Protomer team engages in disease-relevant biological systems in order to test preclinical and clinical pipeline of innovative medicines. The candidate is expected to help develop strategy, direction and manage scientific group milestones and objectives based on an ambitious long-term strategic plan which the candidate helps to develop.

The ideal candidate is a significant contributor and leading a highly integrated, agile, and collaborative team effort and expected to contribute scientifically at Protomer.

This individual will also be expected to be able to independently lead scientific efforts, help shape the team science, deliver scientific advances and contribute significantly to prioritization of research efforts.

Responsibilities:

• Lead projects in chemical biology or peptide frameworks combining aspect of molecule design and conjugation at the interface of small molecules and peptides.
• Initiate and lead new projects, can formulate strategy and execute on the strategy organizing efforts for deep technical development and to accelerate projects internal to the team.
• Develop scientific insight and advances that can lead to high-impact publications in the most rigorous scientific journals.   
• Work collaboratively in the group to achieve a common goal but also provide independent perspective and scientific rationale and contribute to strategy and execution.
• Work on and lead (both directionally and operationally) molecule engineering efforts in the context of scientific advances.
• Take on dedicated molecular engineering efforts.
• Learn about and enhance the platform technology efforts at Protomer.
• Inspire people to collaborate in inventing great medicines by removing barriers, committing to high quality scientific hypotheses, and accelerating where possible.
• Keep safety as a top priority at all times, striving toward a proactive safety culture.
• Be an advocate for diversity and inclusion in our recruiting, retaining and developing scientists, with a commitment to coaching and development of scientists.
• Be a good team player and work effectively, responsibly and professionally with colleagues at Protomer and across Lilly.

Basic Requirements:

• PhD  degree in chemistry, biology, synthetic chemistry, chemical biology, chemical or biological engineering or peptide chemistry or related field with significant experience and track record of publications in these fields and a proven track record of research success.
• Must be an excellent team player, strong attention to detail, strong problem-solving skills, a high level of learning agility, with the ability to lead within a globally matrixed organization and across functions.

Additional Preferences:

• Open, transparent and able to communicate equally well with employees, team members and cross-functional and/or senior leadership.
• Promote external environment awareness across workforce and identify and champion Best Practices and their internal dissemination.
• Ability to think strategically, actively identifying gaps in competencies or capabilities within the organization and taking initiative to drive continuous improvement across Protomer.

Additional Information:

• Some domestic and international travel is anticipated and expected.

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