Global Technical Service Manager | PVC

Global Specialty Chemicals Manufacturer

UK / Flexible, Europe

• ChemExec℠ Ref No: CX000345 | Posted date: 03/08/2018


• Seniority: Junior Management
• Salary: Competitve
• Package details: Bonus and benefits
• Sector: Polymers and Materials
• Closing date: 02/10/2018
• Client Ref: 1000936

Company Overview

Our client is a highly acquisitive and leading speciality chemicals company with exciting growth prospects and operations worldwide.

Job Description

This strategic role is required to deepen expert technical support to the customer base in the S-PVC sector. The role offers the scope to really make a difference to our client's business strategy who wish not only to launch new products within their core manufacturing capability but to look at horizontal diversification as well. These projects and strategy will depend significantly on the expertise and knowledge of someone from the PVC industry. As such the role will interact with the global PVC manufacturing sector and the role will require worldwide travel.

Specific responsibiities include directing technical support to customers worldwide for Specialty PVC product lines, solving customer problems and adding value to their processes. The incumbent will provide real expertise in PVC manufacturing to the heart of the Vinyl Polymers business unit and guide their strategy for support, differentiation and NPD.

The role would ideally be based in South UK and relocation could be provided. Flexibility exists however for those who cannot permanently relocate as experience is the key. In this situation the successful candidate would need to spend significant time in the UK offices so colleagues can absorb, learn from and exploit your experience and knowledge in the core of the business and use it to support projects and the pilot plant as well as deploying it at customers.

Job Requirements

You will have worked for a PVC resin maker who understands PVC formulations & additive packages, is completely at home on the plant and can adjust / tune / optimise plant running conditions, in order to introduce or prove new grades of additive, solve problems.