Product Specialist Biopolymers

Nouryon Home and Personal Care is proud to be a global supplier of ingredient solutions to the cleaning industry. We’re constantly innovating in our product line, our application science, and our sustainability offering to satisfy the evolving demands of our marketplace. As the world is changing, consumers are demanding more sustainable solutions in a variety of consumer and institutional products.


The Role
Nouryon Home and Personal Care is looking for an experienced individual to fill the Polymers Product Specialist position. The purpose of this role is to be a product steward for Emulsion Polymers, Solution Polymers, and Biopolymers. Further, this role focuses on customer inquiries for the benefit of growth, while managing the product life cycle. Successful execution of this role requires developing an understanding of our customers’ needs, our product portfolio, and external sustainability certifications. This role will play an integral in growing our sustainable product offering to our personal care customers.
The preferred locations for the role are Gothenburg, Sweden or Amersfoort, The Netherlands.


The Role’s Main Accountabilities
Customer Growth
• Answering prioritized customer questionnaires and inquiries
• Providing specifications and technical data for external product information (PDS, brochures, etc)
• Creating customer statements regarding product technical data and sustainability


Product Life Cycle
• Management of product life cycle, including new product introduction, product changes, and product eliminations
• Responsible for identifying candidates for product elimination to reduce complexity


Operational Discipline
• Owning and maintain the Active Product Listing for Polymers
• Evaluating product composition
• Evaluating HS codes to facilitate export of products
• Coordinating harmonization of product specifications between manufacturing sites
• Leading projects to improve our operational discipline


Your responsibilities
As a Polymers Products Specialist you will be an active member of the Global Product Management team. You will act as support of the sales and marketing team for the purpose of business growth, as well as develop new product statements as required and manage the PI&C process for Polymers. You will collaborate with Regulatory teams to ensure product stewardship practices are achieved and to ensure selling tools up to date and available.

Additional responsibilities:
• Prompt, accurate, and thorough responses to customers
• Determine new ways to improve our sustainability offering
• Keep current with market trends, competition, and regulatory trends
• Identify new customer needs and provide input for new product development


Job Requirements
To be successful in this position you have 5 years of relevant Product Specialist, R&D, Quality, PSRA or Manufacturing experience. You have strong project management skills, are detailed oriented and well organized. You also have experience in cross-cultural and cross-functional collaboration.
• BSc / MSc in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering or related field
• Written and spoken fluency in English required
• Communication and interpersonal skills, customer focused, result oriented, problem-solving abilities


Why join us?
Are you passionate about sustainability, innovation, safety, and collaboration? Do you want to grow together with a company that is forward-looking and continuously improving how they work? Our employees have ideas on how to build a sustainable future and the drive and passion to realize them. They believe that building long-term relationships and integrity are keys to success. If that describes you, we will gladly make way for your ambitions. We offer you countless career opportunities. From day one we support you with your personal growth, through challenging positions and comprehensive learning and development opportunities, in a dynamic, international, diverse, and proactive working environment.


Additional information
This is a permanent position on a full-time basis, reporting to Global Product Manager, Home & Personal Care Specialties.
Please apply via our online recruitment system with an uploaded job specific resume and cover letter. We do not accept applications via e-mail, these applications will be disregarded. The last day of application is February 15 2022.
For additional information about the vacancy please contact Elke Patteet Global Product Manager, Home & Personal Care Specialties, email: elke.patteet@nouryon.com


For information about the recruitment process, please contact Håkan Malmberg, Senior Talent Resourcing Partner, with email hakan.malmberg@nouryon.com
For unions related questions please contact:
Sveriges Ingenjörer Anna-Lena Palm, +46 303 851 13
Unionen Magnus Svensson +4630385838 or Thomas Nilsson +4630385618


If you have any general questions or need assistance, please contact: Recruiting.SE@Nouryon.com

About Nouryon
Markets and consumers worldwide rely on our essential solutions to manufacture everyday products, such as personal care, cleaning goods, paints and coatings, agriculture and food, pharmaceuticals, and building products. Furthermore, the dedication of more than 7,900 employees with a shared commitment to our customers, business growth, safety, sustainability and innovation has resulted in a consistently strong financial performance. We operate in over 80 countries around the world with a portfolio of industry-leading brands. Do not forget to follow us on Linkedin and Facebook for regular updates of new exciting positions and stories about our achievements.