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Associate Director, Chemistry (321-419)

ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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Location: Cambridge, MA Posted Date: 5/3/2013 Position Type: Full time Job Code: 321 Required Education: Medical Doctor Areas of Expertise Desired: Chemistry

Description

ARIAD is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotechnology company focused on cancer. We are a cohesive team of talented people from diverse backgrounds with a shared vision: We seek to transform the lives of patients with breakthrough cancer medicines. This is our purpose. This is our passion. This is our promise.

Description

We are seeking an Associate Director of Medicinal Chemistry to help lead our expanding oncology drug discovery efforts.

Responsibilities

- Supervise and lead a group of senior medicinal chemists in multiple projects across all aspects of medicinal chemistry
- Drive medicinal chemistry decision making including target identification, route selection, and resource allocation to facilitate nomination of development candidates
- Collaborate extensively with structural chemistry (modeling and X-ray) to advance structure-based approaches to new target molecules including fragments
- Participate in multi-disciplinary oncology project teams selecting new targets and with the potential for project team leadership
- Effectively communicate program progress within the department and across other disciplines
- Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and regulatory guidelines governing commercial and scientific interactions with healthcare professionals, payers, advocacy and other business partners.
- Serve as a role model for compliant behavior that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of the ARIAD organization.

Requirements


- Ph.D. in chemistry with 10+ years of pharmaceutical research experience
- Previous Medicinal Chemistry group leader and/or Discovery Team leadership experience with a demonstrated ability to initiate and guide medicinal chemistry programs
- Extensive knowledge of relevant structure-guided approaches to inhibitor design is essential
- Proven track record of advancing small molecules into development
- Experience with chemistry outsourcing desirable but not essential
- A very high level of motivation and proven track record of accomplishment (publications and presentations)
- Effective management skills, outstanding written and oral communication skills and the ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment
- Strong commitment to business ethics
- Understanding of, and experience with, regulatory framework applicable to interactions with HCPs, payers, advocacy and other business partners.


ARIAD is an equal opportunity employer. The Company's policy is to afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, veteran status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation or age and to comply with applicable laws and regulations. All employment decisions will be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity.
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