Market Development & Technical Services Director - North America

Listgrove Ltd; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Listgrove Ltd. is seeking a Market Development & Technical Services Manager for North America to lead market development and technical-service initiatives across the United States.

This home-based role requires collaboration with Sales, R&D, and global teams to grow high-performance polymers markets. The candidate should have a Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or polymer science and at least seven years in engineered plastics or chemicals, with proven leadership and strong English

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, chemistry, polymer science, materials science, marketing, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum seven (7) years of progressive commercial, marketing, sales, business-development, account-management, technical-service, or related experience within engineered plastics, polymers, chemicals, or another technical manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience with engineered plastic applications and industrial markets and with developing and executing strategic market-growth, customer-development, or commercial plans.
• Previous leadership experience managing and developing professional commercial and/or technical employees.
• Experience managing strategic customer relationships and interacting with customer engineering, development, purchasing, and management organizations.
• Experience with technical product development, material approval, qualification, or commercialization processes.
• Strong understanding of pricing, profitability, forecasting, budgeting, and commercial performance.
• Ability to travel extensively throughout the United States and internationally as business needs require.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and execution of market-development and technical-service strategy across the United States.
• Drive growth by identifying new markets and applications and advancing customer opportunities.
• Lead Marketing and Technical Service teams and align with Sales, R&D, and global teams.
• Develop and monitor strategic plans, budgets, and performance against targets.
• Build and maintain strategic customer relationships across engineering, development, and procurement teams.

Skills

Leadership experience

Strategic market development

Customer relationship management

Engineering/polymer knowledge

Project management

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in business or engineering or polymer science

Tools

CRM

SAP

BI tools

Job description

Listgrove Ltd. is seeking a Market Development & Technical Services Manager for North America to lead market development and technical-service initiatives across the United States.

This home-based role requires collaboration with Sales, R&D, and global teams to grow high-performance polymers markets. The candidate should have a Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or polymer science and at least seven years in engineered plastics or chemicals, with proven leadership and strong English