Sr. Manager Analytical & Testing

Ketjen Corporation; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Professional development

Job summary

With a PhD and 10–15 years in analytical environments, you’ll guide a talented R&T Operations team, coordinating with maintenance and HSE, to advance our capabilities and support business growth in the petrochemical sector.

Qualifications

• PhD-level academic with 10–15 years in analytical/research environments.
• Experience with analytical, testing and data science techniques for heterogeneous catalysts and oil analysis.
• Familiarity with Ref Sol products, production processes, markets, and CFT R&T projects.

Responsibilities

• Delivering integrated analytical expertise strategy, on site / business level and integrated departmental plans and operational realization for all CFT R&D projects and catalyst markets.
• Develop strategy for optimizing capacity (short term) and capabilities (long term) for bench scale testing; provide reliable bench/pilot data.
• Manage the R&T Operations (Services) team coordinating admin, maintenance, and HSE support for the R&T group in Amsterdam.

Skills

PhD level + 10–15 years

Analytical / Data science

Catalysts & Ref Sol knowledge

Education

PhD

Job description

Are you ready to move your career forward and help shape our company’s and customers’ futures?

If you aspire to challenge yourself, work with the best in the industry and join a successful team where you can make a meaningful contribution, then we invite you to join us at Ketjen Corporation, a provider of advanced catalyst solutions to leading producers in the petrochemical, refining, and specialty chemicals industries. Together, we can create a legacy marked by innovation, excitement, and energy.

We are looking for a

Sr. Manager Analytical & Testing

What You Will Do

• Delivering integrated analytical expertise strategy, on site / business level and integrated departmental plans and operational realization for all CFT R & D projects, products and catalyst markets. Providing new analytical & testing methods for CFT and possibly support for other divisions.
• Development of strategy for optimizing capacity (short term) and capabilities (long term) for bench scale testing. Providing timely and reliable performance testing information from benchscale/pilot units. Constantly improving the analytical methods and the effectiveness of the department.
• Managing the R&T Operations (Services) team that takes care of administrative support, coordination with the maintenance department and HSE support for the R&T group in Amsterdam.

What You Bring

Required:

• Academic level of working and thinking at PhD level, with a minimum of 10 - 15 years of experience in an analytical and / or research environment.
• Overview of Analytical, Testing and Data Science techniques with a focus on application in the analysis and development of heterogeneous catalysts and oil analysis.
• Overview of Ref Sol products, production processes, markets, and R & T projects with a focus on CFT.

Preferred:

• Strategic insight: know how to use information sources and to value information on the basis of which to draw up lines
• Innovative capacity: bringing together information from the entire CFT Research and Technology, translating it into strategic opportunities and challenges, and drawing up plans to transform these into an operational plan, in order to contribute to the innovative power of the CFT-R&T group.
• Advisory skills: to be able to convey a (long-term) vision about complex matter and from a non-hierarchical position at strategic level.
• Communication skills and contact properties in order to maintain inter alia internal and external networks and contacts in a complex environment.
• Managerial skills in managing employees also from a non-hierarchical position
• Project management skills to formulate objectives and to be able to guide them in the implementation on time, personnel and financial resources and effectiveness of the (sub) activities
• To be able to retain personal independence on the basis of professional expertise in order to be able to operate effectively in situations with conflicts of interest
• Presentation techniques to transfer approach and findings to clients and colleagues at all levels within and outside the organization.

Benefits Of Joining Ketjen

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits package
• A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.