Technical Development Manager

IMCD Deutschland GmbH & Co KG; California (MO); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global distribution partner seeks a Technical Development Manager for Nutraceuticals to engage with customers and drive formulation development. This remote position involves significant travel and requires a degree in a scientific discipline with substantial laboratory or industrial experience, focusing on solid and liquid dosage forms.

Benefits

Freedom to make your own mark

Work for a growing and expertise-driven company

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in pharmaceutical/nutraceutical laboratory or industrial pharmacy.
• Strong technical presentation skills at academic or industry forums.
• Background as a Pharmacist formulator or in similar product development.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customer technical teams and focus on formulation development.
• Travel to customers’ research & development and manufacturing sites.
• Prepare and present technical information for internal and external training seminars.

Skills

Customer engagement

Leadership

Problem Solving

Communication

Education

Degree in Industrial Pharmacy/Pharmaceutics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering

Job description

Technical Development Manager, Nutraceuticals

TechnicalDevelopment Manager – Nutraceuticals

This role is remotely based in the West Coast preferably California, Arizona, Nevada, or Utah.

TheTechnical Development Manager (TDM) partners with the Technical Account Manager(TAM) within a geographic region to drive opportunity development from conceptthrough pre-commercialization to market and is responsible for engaging withcustomer technical teams and focusing on formulation development using IMCD’sbroad ingredient portfolio. This includes various active delivery systems androutes of administration for solid dose immediate and modified release, liquidsuspension, and topical delivery among others.

OtherTDM activities include presentation creation for internal and external trainingworkshops related to ingredient technology and formulation development and mayinclude using the extensive catalogue of supplier presentations. The TDM isencouraged to contribute to drafting articles, posters, and technical literature.The TDM engages with principal partners to review project pipelines andcoordinate customer joint visits. Reporting to Technical Director, NorthAmerica, the TDM will liaise with Principal Managers (PM) to ensure strategicinitiatives are coordinated and implemented with IMCD’s sales teams andcustomers.

COMPANYBACKGROUND
IMCDUS is a leading global distribution partner and formulator of specialtychemicals and ingredients. An entrepreneurial group founded IMCD in 1995 in theNetherlands. Our vision to transform the distribution industry by continuouslyadding value to the supply chain through expertise and innovation, is whatstill drives us today.

Today,we have operations in over 50 countries, where we successfully combine localknowledge with global expertise to obtain sustainable results. IMCD is astrong, innovative business partner and accelerator of solutions for suppliersand producers of consumer, industrial and durable goods in diverse businesssectors. Our commercial excellence and solid operations structure facilitatehealthy growth.

Successful candidates will be responsibleto:
Travelto customers’ research & development and manufacturing sites topromote, support, and encourage principals’ products and IMCD concept use.
Developand lead technical application discussions with customer technical andoperations groups as well as sales teams using the various technicalinformation tools available.
Routinelydemonstrate ability to understand customer core formulation initiativesand guide development and troubleshooting strategies.
Recommendformulation excipient and process selection, based on customer targets.
Organizetimely customer sample acquisition in cooperation with sales support,principal managers and/or principals.
Prepareand present technical information (oral and written) for both internal andexternal training seminars and workshops and product promotion events.
Coordinatetraining for sales teams and other personnel as required.
SupportIMCD technical resources, when appropriate, including the NJ PharmaTechnical Centre for purposes of customer support.
Collaboratewith Technical Marketing Team for coordinated promotion of new productsand initiatives.
PrepareKey Project reports, customer visit itineraries, and associated reports.
UseCRM software tools to create opportunities and tasks, respond toenquiries, update project database, and capture notes of key customer andprincipal interactions.
Liaisewith Principals’ technical counterparts to discuss customer projectactivities and coordinate joint technical meetings with customers.

Skills:
Proactive customer engagement and committed to driving opportunity pipeline growth.
Passionate, outgoing, highly energetic, self-starter, and self-motivated.
Naturally shows initiative and is solution focused.
Provides strong leadership to achieve growth targets.
Well-presented and articulate.
Able to identify and engage decision makers.
Able and willing to adapt to changing business and technical landscapes.

Required Qualifications:
Degree in Industrial Pharmacy/Pharmaceutics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related scientific discipline required; advanced degree preferred.
Minimum of 10 years’ experience in pharmaceutical/nutraceutical laboratory or industrial pharmacy environment with an emphasis in formulation development in Oral/Topical dosage forms.

DesiredQualifications:
Anunderstanding of the nutraceutical development process is preferred.
Knowledgeof solid dosage form development and manufacturing major pharmaceutical ornutraceutical processes and formulation and manufacture of finished dosageforms.
Experiencegiving strong technical presentation skills at an academic or industryforum required.
Excellentoral and written communication skills required
Backgroundas a Pharmacist formulator or in similar product development backgroundpreferred
Strongability for customer interfacing exposure to customer interaction
Idealcandidate will possess commercial/business development as well astechnical abilities.

Competencies:
Business Acumen
Problem Solving/Analysis
Customer/Client Focus
Communication Proficiency
Teamwork Orientation

SupervisoryResponsibility:
Thisposition has no supervisory responsibilities.

WorkEnvironment
This jobcurrently operates in a remote work environment.

Travel
Around 40-50% travel is expected for this role.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

IMCD Offers
If you want to make a real difference and work for a growing and expertise-driven company, then we’d love to hear from you.We’re looking for people who are experts in their field, be it technical, commercial, or managerial. By joining IMCD, you’ll be part of an entrepreneurial, fast-growing group of ambitious and like-minded professionals, where you’ll have the freedom to make your own mark. We’re rooted in chemistry and specialty ingredients – yet operate like a professional services firm. As a truly international company, we have a presence in cities including Singapore, Melbourne, Milan, Cologne, Paris, Zurich, Los Angeles, São Paulo and Toronto. Our Group Office is in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and our shares are traded on the Amsterdam Euronext market, where we are part of the large cap AEX index.