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Senior Business Director Engineered Polymers EMEAI (m / f / d)

The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium or Spain

Permanent

Type of role: Hybrid

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as Senior Business Director Engineered Polymers EMEAI (m / f / d)!

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the engineered polymers market and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

As a Senior Business Director EMEAI (m / f / d), you'll be at the forefront of our innovation, driving the regional growth strategy to deliver profitable and sustainable business growth. This entails driving sales team effectiveness, developing growth pipelines by taking a customer-centric approach and closely working with supply chain, procurement, R&D, and manufacturing stakeholders to achieve business objectives and deliver on financial targets. Reporting into the Vice President of Engineered Polymers you’ll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Your work will directly impact Lubrizol’s success by owning profit & loss for the region Europe, Middle East, Afrika and India (EMEAI).

• Drive revenue, optimize spend and ensure continued profitable growth of the EMEAI Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) business.
• Identify, scope and manage multiple strategic projects relative to Sales and New Business Development (NBD).
• Own the EMEAI business pipeline and align Sales and NBD to match or overcome Lubrizol’s strategic plan targets.
• Develop and maintain a view of market dynamics in the industry, including ongoing evaluation of opportunities to create new value.
• Influence and gain acceptance of leaders internal and external to Lubrizol through effective communication, relevant and insightful analyses, and creative thinking.
• Lead, manage and coach the EMEAI Sales and NBD organization - create a vision, set goals, and define a strategy for achieving objectives and continuously improve the team’s talent position.
• Facilitate business problem solving through establishing strategic context, developing structured hypotheses, performing detailed analyses, synthesizing insights, and aligning to execution plans, leading to recommendations to senior management.
• Develop economic models to evaluate new business initiatives or in support of understanding the size, growth, and evolution of markets in which we do business, doing so with imperfect data.
• Establish strong relationships with industry experts and customers, proactively supporting the commercial team in identifying new opportunities and expanding our value proposition and market influence.
• Serve as part of the Engineered Polymers Leadership team, providing input on strategic business issues.

• Graduated in Polymer Technology, Material Sciences, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or adjacent field (preferred)
• 8+ years of business leadership experience working across large, cross-functional teams in a global organization.
• 3+ years in a role with direct responsibility and accountability for business profitability, with demonstrated ability to evaluate and execute opportunities which improve business results.
• 3+ years of experience effectively leading a team to accomplish results. Proven results in talent development.
• Knowledge or experience in the plastics industry and experience in leading marketing research / competitive analysis would be a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executive decision making on decisions with significant impact to bottom line.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

• Develop your professional career with a highly respected, industry-leading, multinational company that is part of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
• Become part of a culture that is based on accountability and empowerment and which values diversity and inclusivity.
• A competitive remuneration and benefits package.

Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!

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