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DIRECTOR R&D CATEGORY – MEDICAL & INDUSTRIAL

(MANCHESTER, NH)

 

OVERVIEW

This position is responsible for a team in execution of global and regional category specific projects and will partner with Marketing Category Directors to develop a global product strategy including a robust R&D project pipeline fulfilling market and customer needs with a competitive new product portfolio.

This role will work closely with the R&D leadership team, cross-functional leadership teams, the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), and across the Medical and Industrial groups to drive and improve end-to-end innovation strategy, portfolio, execution, and timely product launches. The role will lead the R&D organization through mapping of the current Medical and Industrial state, and identification of opportunities and challenges and build an integrated roadmap to strengthen strategic alignment and improve executional effectiveness.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Leads R&D category teams:

    • Oversee team of managers, engineers, and technicians in execution of global and regional Industrial and Medical projects following stage gate development process.

    • Support team development, constantly assessing capabilities, managing performance outcomes and attracting the best talent.

    • Lead all aspects of organizational talent development in critical execution skills (e.g. governance, project management and Design To Value) across all leadership and professional levels.

  • Drives strategic alignment:

    • Partner with cross functional leadership teams and ELT to align to strategy, vision, mission, and innovation goals.

    • Understand the global Medical and Industrial category dynamics and key players from a consumer standpoint as well as the key elements of the value creation chain.

    • Ensure clarity of role in driving the future strategy.

  • Improves portfolio health and decision-making:

    • Maintain a clear and realistic project pipeline having a revenue potential consistent with market growth objectives.

    • Lead regular Project Review Board meetings to review projects and ensure alignment & support between R&D, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Engineering, Procurement, and Operations.

    • Enhance front-end process and capabilities to identify and deliver new pipeline opportunities from both market driven and customer driven opportunities.

    • Improves portfolio decision-making and trade-offs to ensure the company is collectively selecting and fully resourcing the most impactful opportunities in Industrial and Medical.

    • Responsible for driving process and approach for unmet need identification and value assessment.

  • Increases Effectiveness of New Product Development for Industrial and Medical projects:

    • Map the current state New Product Innovation (NPI) process for Medical and Industrial, governance, skills, and culture and identifies the most impactful opportunities to drive improvements to NPI effectiveness.

    • Identify the most critical metrics to track NPI performance and measure improvement, resulting from change initiatives.

    • Leads critical change initiatives to improve the agility and rigor of new product development leading to validated improvement in target metrics.

  • Drives a Culture of Innovation and Executional Excellence:

    • Drive cultural change in partnership with ELT, Marketing, R&D leadership teams and cross functional teams to increase engagement and business results.

    • Enhance transparency, connectivity, empowerment, and simplification across the organization.

  • Additional Responsibilities:

  • Serves as a member of Company R&D Leadership team

  • Effectively plans and manages timelines and budget

  • Builds and maintains relationships at all levels throughout the organization, including peers
     

REQUIREMENTS

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science or related field.  Advanced degree preferred.

  • 15 years of proven related leadership and progressive business experience, preferably in Medical Devices, Engineered Consumer Healthcare Products.

  • 7 years of experience in leading and managing others, preferably in a global capacity with a multi-cultural mindset.

  • Experience in a premier multinational company known for R&D best practices as well as smaller company experience is desirable.

  • B2B engineered materials innovation and product development experience in a sales and marketing driven company.

  • Surgical knowledge is a plus.

  • Must possess strong knowledge of engineering fundamentals.

  • Strong project management and change leadership skills are required.

  • Solid collaboration skills, within complex environments is required.

  • High attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.

  • Strong time management skills and ability to prioritize responsibilities.

  • Strong problem-solving skills, sound judgement, and ability to effectively influence decision-making.

  • Strong business acumen with understanding of the financial implications of new product development.

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both verbally and written).

  • Collaborative, team-orientated, adept with key stakeholder management.

  • MS Office Suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word).

  • Ability to travel up to 20%, both domestically and internationally.

Director R&D Category-Medical & Industrial

DIRECTOR, INNOVATION PROCESS

(MANCHESTER, NH)

 

OVERVIEW

This position is responsible for leading the Innovation Process at the company: design, implement, monitor, enforce and ingrain global New Product Development (NPD)/stage gate process; track and report critical innovation KPI’s.  Ensure effective operation of the NPD process.  Develop, manage, and report on project portfolio to ensure healthy long-term growth.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Lead global innovation process, including development and optimization of NPD process, organize Portfolio Reviews and Gate reviews, develop tools, systems, training programs, metric development; report Innovation KPI’s including financial reporting, project health and readiness, and pipeline sufficiency to meet business plan objectives across categories.

  • Work closely with senior management and functional leadership to establish portfolio priorities, support resource allocation and portfolio balancing, and ensure portfolio management excellence to meet agreed upon, timelines, cost, and financial targets.

  • Provide program management support for global innovation & development projects, including project planning, risk management, status reporting; achieve project management excellence across global R&D.

  • Lead and drive the disciplined governance and NPD process.  Execute the stage gate process across the company.  Act objectively across functions to drive the best resourcing decisions across functions.

    • Ensure alignment and agreement on NPD assumptions and risk management across functions and through NPD governance processes (e.g., Product Review Board).

  • Manages the portfolio of projects at a strategic level; produces accurate and timely reporting of NPD portfolio status throughout the program life cycle.

    • Monitor progress against key checkpoints and decision dates.

    • Highlight risks, bottlenecks, and barriers and provide solutions to address.

    • Collaborates with project teams to identify gaps, allocate resources appropriately, and drive decision making for category pipelines to meet both short term and long-term innovation objectives.

  • Establishes and tracks innovation KPI’s, including status/health of portfolio, providing visibility and insight to executive stakeholders.

  • Drives strong focus on improving business case integrity and priorities.  Identify and implement improvements in the development process and tools based on lessons learned.  Promotes continuous improvement of the process.

  • Manages and provides escalation between leadership and program teams identifying opportunities for synergy in the portfolio with regarding to project knowledge, resourcing, and tools.

 

REQUIREMENTS

  • 5 years of relevant project/program management experience.

  • Bachelors level degree in technical discipline, advanced degree preferred.

  • PMP, PGMP, or CAPM certification strongly preferred.

  • Proven knowledge of program management standards.

  • Experience leading project and/or portfolio management function. 

  • Proven leader with the ability to think creatively and laterally across functions to drive execution.

  • Strong business acumen with the ability to understand and model financial business plans.

  • Able to lead prioritization to meet deadlines within specified time constraints.

  • Acts with Urgency.

  • Strong problem-solving, influencing, and decision-making skills.

  • Ability to challenge, influence and persuade, and lead in a changing work environment.

  • Enable project teams to achieve their goals and remove barriers to delivering their innovation targets.

  • Experience effectively managing multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously.

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both verbally and written).

  • Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization, including strong presentation skills.

  • Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and relationship building skills.

  • Exceptional project management skills

  • High integrity and work ethic

  • An exhibited dedication to safety

  • MS Office Suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word).

  • Ability to travel up to 10%, both domestically and internationally.

Director, Innovation Process

PROCESS TECHNOLOGY FELLOW

(BILLERICA, MA)

 

OVERVIEW

Leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials manufacturer has immediate need!

 

Lead expert in a critical technology area for Company. Recognized as authority who owns excellence in the field. Possesses unique knowledge, competencies and has a broad reach across the organization. Critical resource who drives the organization's success. Thought leader and visionary influencer of technology direction with exemplary track record. Trusted partner of senior company leaders. Operates at intersection of technology and market. Conducts research on leading-edge concepts. Aspirational role model to junior technical staff, helps and mentors others improve their ideas and execution of projects to maximize value. Has a lasting transformative impact on the organization's technical capabilities in their area of expertise.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Depth of knowledge in technical competencies and applications relevant to Company. Judgement and capabilities to influence, make strategic decisions, and enable technological advances. Detailed knowledge of Company's products/processes, supplier's products/processes, and customer's products/applications to ensure successful adoption of Cabot products in customer's application

  • Considered a role model for the technical organization. Willingness and ability to promote and shape others' ideas and accomplishments to foster the continuation of a strong, capable organization

  • Willingness/ability to promote the value and power of IP, assist in interpretation of IP, and craft effective new IP. Holder of a significant personal patent portfolio. Ability to clearly articulate the technical possibilities and practicalities that can advance the technology for the company. Ability to fill knowledge gaps resourcefully. Actively engaged in broader technical areas of the business

  • Passion for innovation, scientific discovery, experimentation; track record of developing technology solutions that bring value to Company and customers

  • Ability to gather/analyze information from a wide range of sources and draw well-reasoned conclusions.

  • Having stayed on the technical ladder during their entire career, a Fellow is expected to be both very deep and fairly broad. With a perspective that comes of decades of specialized experience, the Fellow is expected to draw upon a broad range of sources across other products, processes, functions, and disciplines

  • Connects technology, science, application, IP, and marketplace. Judgement on feasibility of new concepts and opportunities and appropriate depth of analysis to support quality decisions

  • Demonstrates intellectual curiosity: Seeks to know and understand what is in the space of the unknown and is eager to explore and discover the possibilities for technology advancement

  • Ability to solicit/integrate differing points of view for the decision-making process. Able to distinguish fact from inference/assumption/hypothesis when analyzing all aspects of a project Ability to design/interpret critical experiments to target the answers the teams needs efficiently and precisely. Facilitation - help team settle on sound experiments/analysis. Experimental design, modeling, data management, and analysis proficiency. Skillful data interpretation, to create knowledge

  • Experience and knowledge in the critical aspects of project management

 

REQUIREMENTS

  • Ph.D. in Chemistry, Material Science or Engineering or equivalent with 12+ years of experience in product/applications development related to customer products

  • Experience managing customer interactions/relationships in a Technology environment (for purposes of product/application development) highly desirable and may be required for select roles

  • Envisions, advocates, and champions game changing opportunities building on Company's core competencies and the path to accomplish them to advance the organization and deliver future value

  • Creates value in our most complex situations. Serves as a resource to the corporation to collaboratively solve world class technical problems. Recognized as an industry leader in their areas of expertise in a critical technology area for Company. Has both broad knowledge of the entire technical enterprise and specialized knowledge that is widely applied. The breadth of their contribution is visible to the entire community

  • May lead special technical programs for the corporation and/or contribute in area of expertise in programs led by others. Provides mentorship/people development to pass on knowledge to employees in the organization and helps improve their ideas and execution of projects to maximize value. Inspires technologists to excel and advance based on deep technical strengths and expertise. Partners with our teams to recruit and promote Company’s people. Serves as an advocate of the technical ladder and motivates high caliber people to pursue it. Has a lasting transformative impact on the organization's technical capabilities in their area of expertise

  • Stays current with relevant internal and external technical developments, brings experience and expertise to innovate in the area of new processes, product, application, techniques that are recognized as major advances in the field

  • Leads team to generate data, conduct advanced statistical analysis, and organize and interpret data to establish and support new process, materials, and/or application learning

  • Role model in documentation and ensures preparation of appropriate reports and presentations documenting work, results, conclusions. Represents the team in presentation to senior management, broad technical groups and/or business partners

  • Initiates/maintains extensive contacts with key technical resources of educational institutions, technical organizations and other companies in order to stay current with emerging technology and key talent in Company's core competencies. Participates actively with external communities and contributes to publications and participates in activities involving universities, conferences, others

  • Recognizes the extraordinary impact of intellectual property to Company’s technology organization. Widely recognized to advocate, create, protect, use, and improve intellectual property in all forms. Brings expert perspective and collaborates with legal team to ensure that created technology has the best chance of being patented by Company while avoiding the patents of others

  • Inspires technologists to be safety role models and shares knowledge broadly in the domain. Advances Company safety culture by taking initiative to identify opportunities for improvement and resolves them. Sought after for their expertise company-wide in safety to participate in safety-focused activities, such as investigations into safety matters through RCA and 5-whys

  • Strictly follows/complies with all SH&E procedures, standards and regulations and constantly strives for Excellence in the fields of sustainability and Safety, Health and preservation of the Environment

  • Supports efforts to implement and maintain the Responsible Care® Management System in line with the requirements of the RC14001® technical specification, as applicable to the site/region

Process Technology Fellow

R&D SCIENTIST-HOUSEHOLD & INDUSTRIAL CLEANERS

(PLEASANT PRAIRIE, WI)

 

OVERVIEW

Global leading manufacturer of innovative paints/coatings for the Do-It-Yourself & Professional markets with product applications for small project paints, cleaners, primers, automotive, industrial, high- performance coatings and wood care, has this immediate need! Relocation assistance offered.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Conducts a significant level of formulation/applications work in the lab per project plan. Asks appropriate questions to clarify requirements/expectations/critical performance parameters

  • Plan/design/perform complex experimental work. Interpret/compile/report experimental results through written lab reports and presentations

  • Documents lab results through appropriate means including laboratory notebooks, interim and full reports, project meeting minutes, and monthly summaries. When visiting customers, writes reports with corresponding action items

  • Handle projects from start to finish with minimal supervision including - formulation, process development, batching, and stability studies

  • Correspond with raw material suppliers for R&D sample, pricing and technical information requests

  • Compile/analyze 3rd party test information as needed to report to Technical Director

  • Maintain R&D tracker for marketing submissions, product formula evaluation, lab batching schedule, stability, safety testing, etc.

  • Prepare technical documents for claim substantiation for managerial review as needed

  • Maintain R&D product stability program with pull dates and submit samples for testing based on stability protocol

  • Work cross-functionally with team in internal and external manufacturing plant and warehouse

  • Maintain adherence to cGMP’s (current Good Manufacturing Procedures), GLP’s (Good Laboratory Procedures), and SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures)

 

REQUIREMENTS

  • Attention to detail/analytical thinking, ability to apply general concepts to specific problems to produce positive results is a must

  • Basic formulation knowledge in the home care and industrial cleaning segment areas

  • Work experience in the application of surfactants and polymers to specific home care and I&I cleaning segment areas

  • Ability to prepare and give presentations to internal colleagues and external customers

  • Must be able to work with minimal supervision on multiple complex projects

  • Must be familiar with laboratory equipment used in the process of creating bench batches

  • Has basic working knowledge and understanding of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within the field of personal care products

  • 3+ years of related experience working with cleaning and antimicrobial chemistry, materials used in industrial and institutional cleaning products, or associated technical field

  • Minimum 3-4 years of formulation experience. Must have formulated products from start to finish (cleaner/degreasers, glass cleaners, bathroom cleaners, disinfectants, etc.)

  • Must have a robust knowledge of basic ingredient interaction and should be able to develop lab scale process

  • BS in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials, or other equivalent scientific field required. MS or Ph.D. strongly preferred

R&D Scientist - Household & Industrial Cleaners

R&D CHEMIST – AEROSOLS

(PLEASANT PRAIRIE, WI)

 

OVERVIEW

Global leading manufacturer of innovative paints/coatings for the Do-It-Yourself & Professional markets with product applications for small project paints, cleaners, primers, automotive, industrial, high- performance coatings and wood care, has this immediate need! Relocation assistance offered.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES & REQUIREMENTS

Technology Knowledge:

  • Ability to develop complex experimental plans, conduct organized research, and investigate results

  • Intermediate knowledge of a range of coatings chemistries, including alkyd, acrylic, epoxy, urethane, phenolic, polyaspartics, and sil(ox)anes, etc.

  • Knowledge of aerosol components, formulations, applications, stability protocols, and scale up   

  • Ability to analyze data, identify trends, patterns, correlations, and level of statistical significance Perform Cost/benefit analysis. Identify and perform risk assessment to quantify risk.  Reach defensible data driven conclusions and guide project progression based on results

  • Collect/organize data in a timely and efficient manner and present to scientists/leaders/marketing

  • Collect/organize the raw data, organize into presentable format and provide a detailed interpretation of the data

  • Good understanding of Scientific Methodology. Hypothesis driven research and problem-solving capability with an ability to analyze data and document clearly

  • Strong command on analytical methods and the use of structure-property relationship to drive product development

  • Strong understanding of scientific principles and experimental design principles to set up and execute efficient DOEs

  • Identify market’s un-met needs and secure formulation to create new-to-the-world products

  • Identify raw components from current and new suppliers

  • Prepare professional updates and project reports

  • Ability to present complex data and project findings to stakeholders in leadership and cross functional teams

 

Technical Leadership:

  • Continuous learning and intimate awareness of open literature and competitive landscape

  • Adhere to safety, quality and housekeeping policies/guidelines

  • Confer with peers and supervisors to conduct analyses of research projects, interpret test results, or develop nonstandard tests

  • Develop technical papers and reports and prepare standards and specifications for processes, products, or tests

  • Ability to interact with cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization  

  • Good business acumen

People Leadership

  • Outstanding personal and interpersonal skills – listening, compassion, motivating, inspiring, humor, patience, understanding diversity, negotiating etc.

  • Energetic, Driving and Inspiring

    • Action oriented, perseverance and results driven

  • Demonstrates Courage

    • Leadership (technical and managerial) command skills, conflict management

  • Continuous learning/growth and mentorship and teaching skills

 Organization Leadership:

  • Agility to respond to emerging business needs - strong change of management skills

  • Assess organizational processes and develop new processes to improve efficiency and quality

  • Good presentation skills

  • Demonstrate strong career ambition – potential to become top leader

 Education Requirements:

  • B.S. or Masters in Chemistry, Polymer Science, Engineering, or comparable scientific field

 Experience Requirements:

  • Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience is required

R&D Chemist - Aerosols

SENIOR CHEMICAL PROCESS ENGINEER

(HAVERHILL, MA)

 

OVERVIEW

The Senior Chemical Process Engineer serve as lead in new product introduction and scale up processes into our manufacturing environment at the Haverhill, MA Inkjet manufacturing plant.

                                                                                   

In this role, serve as primary new product introduction & product scale up resource to ensure a robust commercialized product with respect to operations, safety, quality, and cost, that support the goals of the plant/business/division. Lead commissioning and/or participate in site capital growth projects. Aid in the development of implementation plans to achieve business objectives, transfer of technology, best practices, safety and quality improvements, and other improvement efforts.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES


• Drive new product introduction, manage toll manufacturers, and bring on capital investments to support commercialization of new customer programs
• Plan/facilitate product line capital investment projects linked to safety improvements, capability/capacity up to completion. Initiate proposals/innovations for capital investment to continuously improve the manufacturing operation. Execute capital investments in support
• Lead/support new product development/trials. Develop run plan and work with engineers and supervision to ensure operators are trained before execution
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives. Facilitate best practice sharing between the manufacturing teams. Introduce and reinforce new and updated procedures, processes technologies and methods. Collect and rate production methods looking for best practices to be shared globally

 

REQUIREMENTS

 

• BS Chemical Engineering. 7+ years’ experience in chemical manufacturing or process development
• Technical knowledge or process and product technology. Knowledge of specialty chemical batch manufacturing and ability in plant operations product monitoring and process control
• Understanding of Statistical Process Control (SPC) tools and principals. Experience in product specification, product uniformity and variation. Experience with Analytical problem-solving methodologies (e.g., root cause analysis, failure mode analysis)
• Supply chain know-how and Project Management expertise
• Ability to effectively engage in verbal/written communications that are timely, concise, clear, and relevant while delivering with empathy with a broad range of stakeholders. Influencing skills without authority
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Ability to generate data, conduct analysis, and organize/interprets data to establish/support equipment
• Strictly follow/comply with all SH&E procedures/standards/regulations and constantly strive for excellence in fields of sustainability and Safety, Health, and preservation of the Environment. Familiar with topics such as Process Safety Management (PSM), safe work permitting, lockout/tagout, emergency response, and hazard recognition

Senior Chemical Process Engineer
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