Career Opportunities At Porton

Porton is a public company and a leading China-based custom manufacturing services provider (CMO), serving the global pharmaceutical industry with seamless custom and contract chemical development and manufacturing services from preclinical development to commercial supply. There are about 1100 employees, three manufacturing plants and three R&D centers in Porton. The following positions are available in Porton. If you are interested, please send your C.V. to jianguo.ma@porton.cn.

Senior Director/Director in Biology

(Location: Chongqing/Shanghai/Chengdu R&D Center, China)

Depending on qualifications, these positions may be filled at either senior director or director level.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establishes a biocatalyst department.
• Buys all the necessary equipment to build fully functionalized labs and then pilot plant in the future.
• Hires qualified people for the department.
• Creates analytic capabilities for enzymes.
• Produces new enzymes through genetic engineering.
• Scale-ups new enzymes using cell culture, enzyme purification.
• Conducts enzyme screening for a specific reaction.
• Mentors team members and build an efficient team.
• Leads the planning and implementation of project. Establishes project objectives, timelines. Defines project tasks and resource requirements.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Masters (MS) is required; PhD in biology field is preferred.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in genetic engineering, cell culture, enzyme purification and scale-up is required.
• Candidate should possess strong and effective project management, problem solving and interpersonal skills and have a proven track record working cross-functionally across a wide variety of technical, business and operational areas.

Associate Director/Director in Process Chemistry

(Location: Chongqing/Shanghai/Chengdu R&D Center, China)

Depending on qualifications, these positions may be filled at either associate director or director level.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning and implementation of project. Establishes project objectives, timelines and deliverables. Define project tasks and resource requirements.
• Closely monitors/controls project progression to ensure project is completed on schedule and within budget. Reports project progress to all key stakeholders.
• Supports technical team to investigate potentially serious situations and implements corrective measures.
• Understands DOE (design of experiments) and QbD (quality by design) concepts and apply the concept in process optimization.
• Serves as liaison with client contacts, manages day-to-day communications.
• Represents company in project meetings, prepares meeting agenda and minutes, and follow through action items.
• Informs internal key stakeholders of project progress.
• Takes action to enhance performance based on experiences and feedback.
• Evaluates and assesses project results, provides recommendations for future improvements.
• Provides support to business development team to attend customer visits, conferences or tradeshows.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Masters (MS) is required; PhD in chemistry is preferred.
• A minimum of 3 years pharmaceutical or CRO/CMO industry experience preferably in process R&D, API development and manufacturing area. The preferred candidate will have prior experience in project management or managing external research collaborations.
• Candidate should possess strong and effective project management, problem solving and interpersonal skills and have a proven track record working cross-functionally across a wide variety of technical, business and operational areas.

Group Leader in Process Chemistry

(Location: Chongqing/Shanghai/Chengdu R&D Center, China)

Key Responsibilities:

• Supervises around10 chemists who work on multiple projects.
• Demonstrates strong knowledge in synthetic organic chemistry.
• Conducts route selection, process optimization, scale-up, production in pilot plant and technology transfer.
• Understands DOE (design of experiments) and QbD (quality by design) concepts and apply the concept in process optimization.
• Ensures the creation of efficient chemical processes that meet corporate EHS (Environmental health and safety) requirement.
• Allocates resources probably to complete projects on time.
• Mentor team members to improve efficiency and solve the difficult issues.
• Desired Skills and Experience:
• Doctoral degree or Master degree (MS) with equivalent experience is required.

重庆博腾制药科技股份有限公司成立于2005年7月，总部位于重庆，在欧洲、美国、香港、瑞士设有子公司，在成都设有分公司，是一家按照国际标准为跨国制药公司和生物制药公司提供医药定制研发生产服务的高新技术企业。公司的主要服务内容包括为创新药提供医药中间体的工艺研究开发、质量研究和安全性研究，以及为创新药提供医药中间体的定制生产服务，包括研发阶段的小规模生产服务到商业化阶段的大规模生产服务。公司主要服务于临床试验至专利药销售阶段的创新药，服务的药品治疗领域包括抗艾滋病、抗丙肝、降血脂、镇痛、抗糖尿病等。

作为中国领先的医药定制研发生产企业之一，公司在重庆（长寿）化工园区和重庆高新技术产业开发区设有两个生产基地，并在重庆、上海和成都设有三个研发中心。公司凝聚了一支高素质、具有国际化视野的经营管理团队，并依托在商业模式、研发技术、综合管理等方面的优势，在业内树立了良好口碑，已成为全球前15大制药公司中11家的医药定制研发生产服务提供商。另外，公司非常注重研发和技术的投入，截止2013年末，公司已获授权的发明专利为12项、正在申请的发明专利为13项（包括2项PCT专利），共有数十个产品多次被授予国家863计划、国家重点新产品、国家火炬计划以及重庆市重点新产品等。2012年，公司荣获了全球CMO（医药定制研发生产企业）领导者奖。现有雇员1100 人左右。

博腾将秉持“客户第一、追求卓越、团队协作、互相关爱”的精神，跟踪国际医药定制研发生产的最新发展趋势，以优秀的人才、先进的技术、科学的管理，不断提高公司的服务水平和经营业绩，成为受人尊敬的、世界领先的医药定制研发生产企业，为人类的健康提供高品质的产品与服务。

Posted on September 11, 2014