Principal Application Scientist

Description

• Prepare technical presentations, brochures and supporting literature to enable customer engagement
• Work closely with the marketing and sales team on prospect mining and identification of new accounts including traveling with sales/marketing for joint customer visits requiring planning, preparation for calls and presentations to customers
• Provide customers with product recommendations and support providing samples, technical and product details facilitating a customer’s evaluation of Synthomer products.
• Lead application development with focus on hotmelt applications and associated markets such as hygiene, automotive, assembly, and other durable assembly markets.
• Manage innovation project opportunity pipeline through SalesForce (SFDC).
• Maintain contact with existing and prospective customers, either independently or together with the sales team, using all communication channels.
• Stay current on industry developments and advancements in technology related to the product line
• Provide customers with understanding of the Adhesive Solutions product portfolio via in depth training, conferences, tradeshows, and customer site visits
• Collaborate with manufacturing and quality control department to ensure product performance and reliability as well as drive new product development
• Represent the company at industry events and other forums

Requirements

• Understand customer and end-user requirements and testing procedures to determine how Synthomer product offerings can enhance adhesive applications and performance
• Excellent MS Office software experience, CRM and planning tools (e.g. C4C, Salesforce, Arkieva). SAP experience preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with customers and internal partners
• Demonstrated broad working knowledge in a wide range of polymer science skills including: structure-property relationships, polymer physics, characterization, mechanics of materials and polymer testing
• Skill in translating ideas and concepts into detailed technical work plans for execution by technician team
• Ability to work in a team setting and with members from different technical background
• Ideally PhD for this role in Chemistry, Polymer Science, Material Science or Engineering or other related field. Masters degree considered based on experience.
• Translate fundamental knowledge to the development of new applications and the identification of new market platforms
• Valid driver’s license and ability to travel up to 20% of time to domestic and international locations under short notice.
• Ability to work with and connect seemingly unrelated pieces of information
• Good understanding of the adhesive markets including formulated adhesives, construction, and tape/label market
• Have an understanding of the functional attributes of a wide range of polymers, adhesives and tackifier resins materials.
• Knowledge of polyolefins used in hotmelt adhesives preferred
• Working knowledge of Design of Experiment (DoE), practical experience utilizing statistical software platforms such as JMP, Minitab, Design Expert is preferred.
• Ideally 5 years experience in the adhesives or polymers industries.
• Strong customer interface and communication skills in discovering customer needs and translate customer requirements into application specification
• Demonstrate strong leadership in project management, cross function team work and cross-region collaboration
• Ability to translate customers unmet needs into differentiated new product or adoption of existing products in new applications

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance