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. Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $121,500 - $198,000 The Discovery Chemistry & Technologies organization within Lilly Research Laboratories is seeking a highly skilled scientist and team player to join the Medicinal Chemistry group located at the Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, IN. If you are interested in being considered for employment with a top Pharmaceutical company, please review the following opportunity: + Keep safety as your top priority at any time, striving to maintain a strong safety culture. + Deliver high laboratory synthetic productivity to inform fast-paced SAR iterations through proposal and execution of synthetic routes. + Apply, create state-of-the-art synthetic methodologies to enable novel small molecule design and solve difficult synthetic challenges in the small molecule portfolio of projects. + Formulate hypothesis, design, and synthetize novel small molecules to engage disease modifying targets and contribute decisively to the advancement of drug discovery programs from early lead generation to submission of candidate drugs to the clinic. + Leverage world-class structure-based drug design technologies and partner with expert colleagues in computational chemistry and biophysics to characterize protein-ligand interactions and gain key insights supporting de-novo molecular design. + Optimize lead compounds to improve potency, selectivity, physicochemical properties and DMPK to meet the desired target product profiles required to invent high-quality medicines. + Reach out across disciplines to interact and collaborate with scientists in areas like pharmacology, translational science, ADME and toxicology to address specific program needs, increase your overall business acumen and provide them with Medicinal Chemistry perspectives. **QUALIFICATIONS** Minimum Requirements: + PhD in a scientific field such as chemistry, biology, engineering or a subset of these areas. Desired Requirements: + Strong Synthetic Organic Chemistry skills with deep and extensive working knowledge of modern synthetic chemistry methodologies, experimental work, isolation/purification techniques and structural analysis of synthetic organic molecules. Ability to maintain awareness of latest literature of chemical transformations. + Scientific creativity and ability to work independently solving problems through careful experimental design, analysis of complex data sets and mechanistic insight. + Robust track record of scientific contributions including peer reviewed publications, patents and presentations. + Excellent English language oral and written communication skills, ability to engage highly effectively as team player in a multidisciplinary and international environment. + Proficient use of Microsoft Office applications as well as Scifinder, Reaxys or other scientific data tools to identify relevant scientific literature. + Strong work ethic. Scientific curiosity. 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