SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Chemicals organisation, based in Netherlands.

The Company

A leading specialty chemicals company acting in high-end markets for well-known brands. The company has an innovative approach to everything they produce, providing excellent solutions wit positive and lasting impact. The company has a long term focus with an agile production environment to act swiftly to changing needs. The company has a global presence with multiple production sites and over 350+ employees.

Role Description

You initiate projects and works closely together with Sales, R&D, Production, Procurement & Logistics to enhance and grow business from existing, new and durable industry products.

Responsibilities

- You conduct market research and translate this into opportunities for innovation and product development;
- You develop and implement product strategies;
- You initiate and coordinate product development processes in collaboration with R&D and other colleagues from different departments (multidisciplinary), also at international level;
- You connect and maintain contact with both internal and external stakeholders, such as R&D, service center, sales, purchasing, production, suppliers, agents and customers;
- You respond to product-related customer requests and collect the necessary information to initiate a business case;
- You develop, manage and maintain the product portfolio;
- You create, manage and maintain the technical product information and learning application instructions;
- You are responsible for product marketing;
- You lead product management as a function and possible junior product managers.

Requirements

- You have an academic degree in Chemistry;
- You have at least eight years of relevant work experience with chemical and technical product development;
- You are pragmatic, proactive and ambitious;
- You enjoy working in an international and commercial environment;
- You have good communication skills and are able to communicate with various colleagues at all levels and disciplines in the organization;
- You are a real team player, you work systematically and structured;
- You have excellent project management skills;
- Good command of the Dutch and English language in word and writing (German and / or Italian is an advantage);
- You can deal with work pressure;
- You are willing to travel.