Senior Scientist Manager, Analytical

About the Position

Senior Scientist Manager, Analytical

BAT is evolving at pace into a global multi-category business. Our purpose is to create A Better Tomorrow™ by Building a Smokeless World. To achieve our ambition, we are looking for colleagues who are ready to join us on this journey! Tomorrow can’t wait, let’s shape it together!

British American Tobacco Indonesia has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Scientist Analytical in Malang, Indonesia

This role holds significant responsibility in supporting BAT’s New Categories innovation path by delivering analytical expertise, technical direction, and quality data. It enables product innovation, lifecycle management (PLM), regulatory aid, and the Transforming Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) ambition. As a recognised expert in Analytical Sciences, you will guide the development and deployment of tailored capabilities, advance laboratory excellence, and establish a high-performing analytical team to back BAT’s Global R&D agenda.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and scientific expertise to the Analytical team, ensuring delivery of high-quality analytical testing activities aligned with business priorities and guidelines.
• Lead analytical capability development, covering method establishment, assessment, and application (e.g., metals, carbonyls, TSNAs) in compliance with ISO 17025 and laboratory quality management systems.
• Manage analytical testing capacity, resources, and priorities to support New Categories innovation, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and THR objectives.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Analytical team through capability building and talent development.
• Ensure delivery of timely, reliable, and compliant analytical data to support product understanding, regulatory needs, and business decisions.
• Drive continuous improvement, digital transformation, and effective ways of working across analytical operations.
• Collaborate with global R&D teams, Analytical CoE, Product Development teams, suppliers, CROs, and scientific partners.
• Support technical reports, publications, presentations, and scientific collaborations to strengthen analytical capabilities.
• Ensure compliance with laboratory governance, ISO 17025 accreditation, safety standards, regulatory requirements, and analytical service excellence.

Requirements

• Proficiency in English.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, or a related scientific field.
• 5–10 years of background in Analytical Sciences with solid practical experience in analytical instrumentation and managing laboratory operations.
• Strong expertise in analytical techniques such as GC-FID, HPLC, HPLC/MS/MS, and related analytical technologies.
• Proven experience in analytical method development, validation, troubleshooting, calibration, and laboratory guidelines.
• Experience working in a quality-controlled laboratory environment such as ISO 17025 accredited and/or GxP-compliant laboratories.
• Experience leading analytical teams, developing technical capability, and building a high-performing team culture.
• Strong understanding of analytical data management, informatics tools, data quality standards, interpretation, and reporting.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with global collaborators, external partners, and scientific communities.
• Strong communication, influencing, and leadership skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences.

We Offer

• We offer a market leading annual performance bonus (subject to eligibility)
• Our range of benefits varies by country and includes diverse health plans, initiatives for work-life balance, transportation support, and a flexible holiday plan with additional incentives
• Your journey with us isn't limited by boundaries; it's propelled by your aspirations. Join us at BAT and become a part of an environment that thrives on internal advancement, where your career progression isn't just a statement – it's a reality we're eager to build together. Seize the opportunity and own your development; your next chapter starts here.
• You'll have access to online learning platforms and personalized growth programs to nurture your leadership skills
• We prioritise continuous improvement within a transformative environment, preparing for ongoing changes

About the Company

We are on a journey to A Better Tomorrow™ by Building a Smokeless World. A world where smokers who would otherwise continue to smoke, have migrated to smokeless alternatives. This is why we are always innovating, experimenting, and delivering new solutions. This is why our R&D and Science department is so important to the business, and we are investing and accelerating our activities to generate new science and innovation. Today, we operate in a broad spectrum of scientific fields including molecular biology, toxicology, and chemistry, and it is that breadth of expertise which fuels the relentless innovation and learning that sets us apart as an industry leader.

At BAT, we’re committed to more than just jobs, we’re dedicated to purposeful careers - It's one of the many reasons we have been named as a Global Top Employer for the eighth consecutive year. We believe that Leadership shouldn’t be confined to titles. It’s a mindset and through our leading Learning and Development programmes, you’ll continuously develop your skills and experience. With our unwavering support, you’ll work in cross functional teams connecting with industry leaders and expanding your professional network.

Join us at BAT, where purpose meets possibility, and your career story unfolds.

Values

At BAT, our values show us the way to bring our purpose to life. Serving as our compass, they navigate every aspect of our path towards A Better Tomorrow™ defining how we innovate, grow, and achieve success while setting high standards for individual achievement and collective progress. Rooted in integrity and collaboration, they empower us as pioneers of change in a world that never stands still ensuring we shape BAT's legacy with confidence and purpose.

• Truly inclusive
• Do the right thing
• Love for our consumer
• Passion to win
• Empowered through trust
• Stronger together