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Job Summary:
Applied Innovation for Actives in the Americas focuses on global development activities for collagens and proteins while managing strategic topics within the global innovation pipeline. The role drives the development of new products and strengthens the existing portfolio through applied technology innovations, while also supporting customers during launch and post-launch and delivering outcomes from cocreation projects. It involves continuously monitoring the technical value, market relevance, and consumer trends for the collagen and protein portfolio, identifying new technologies, and capturing brand needs from customers. Direct business support is provided through organizing and participating in technical promotion for new launches, generating new data aligned with market needs, and working with Marketing to prepare and launch technology-driven concepts for targeted brands. The position collaborates closely with Business Development, Account Managers, and Applied Technology teams regionally and globally, and coordinates external studies with the Evonik Skin Institute and its network of research laboratories and dermatologists.
Responsibilities
Lead Global Innovation (Collagens & Proteins)
Drive new product development and generate new data to support and grow the existing portfolio, ensuring alignment with market and customer needs.
Customer Cocreation & Solution Development:
Create system solutions and improve existing technologies; co-develop new solutions with customers—occasionally exclusive—based on brand needs and solid business cases. Build long-term capabilities to enable efficient cocreation.
Technology & Trend Monitoring:
Identify emerging technologies and future business opportunities. Conduct regular innovation and trend analyses and implement tools to continually track new products, technologies, and customer behavior with Marketing.
Customer Intimacy & Technical Support:
Support customers before, during, and after product launches; translate customer insights into development priorities; and provide sound technical answers to customer and market inquiries
Requirements
Lead Global Innovation (Collagens & Proteins):
Drive new product development and generate new data to support and grow the existing portfolio, ensuring alignment with market and customer needs.
Customer Cocreation & Solution Development:
Create system solutions and improve existing technologies; co-develop new solutions with customers—occasionally exclusive—based on brand needs and solid business cases. Build long-term capabilities to enable efficient cocreation.
Technology & Trend Monitoring:
Identify emerging technologies and future business opportunities. Conduct regular innovation and trend analyses and implement tools to continually track new products, technologies, and customer behavior with Marketing.
Customer Intimacy & Technical Support:
Support customers before, during, and after product launches; translate customer insights into development priorities; and provide sound technical answers to customer and market inquiries.
The Evonik Group adopts an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) approach. Candidates are assessed based on their educational qualifications, experience, job competencies and potential and shall not be discriminated against on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, nationality, disability or sexual orientation or other classifications protected by local, state, or provincial regulations.
Your Application
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Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.
Your Talent Acquisition Manager:
Bhawna Kapur [C]Company is
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