Summary:

• The Specialist Purchaser for recycled plastic raw materials is responsible for purchasing raw materials in line with the market and on time. As part of the purchasing team, he/she coordinates the provision of goods together with production and order processing and is responsible for raw material stocks.
• He/she knows the European market for recycled plastics, finds new suppliers and optimizes supply chains via suppliers, dealers and their own in-house grinding plant.

Main tasks and their expected results:

• Purchase of recycled raw materials in order to source the production supply in terms of costs and quality.
• Search for and validation of new raw material sources for regrind and recyclates in order to reduce the cost through new alternative raw material sources domestically and abroad.
• Coordination and arrangement of the supply with internal specialist departments in order to optimize flow of goods and reduction of stocks.
• Search for and validation of new raw material sources from plastic waste streams in order to reduce the cost through further processing in the grinding plant.

Your Profile:

• Educated in a technical or business discipline.
• At least 5 years in the plastic raw material industry with a corresponding network.
• Several years of experience in purchasing.
• Self-propelled, business fluent networker.
• Fluent in German and English.

Summary:

Sales and relationship management with globally active key customers and OEM’s.

Your Tasks:

• Ensure consistent, profitable growth in sales revenues through proactive planning and deployment with key accounts.
• Knows and cooperates with key persons at customer organization in various departments such as purchasing, quality, material and product development etc.
• Identify objectives, short- and mid-term strategies and action plans to improve each product’s sales and profit.
• Manage the assigned customers and products to maximize company profit and meet company’s mid-term plan targets.
• Collaborate with group sales members, technical staff, customer service and logistic team in recommending and establishing sales goals.
• Perform sales activities and negotiate sales prices in consultation with supervisor and general manager.
• Supports services with technical team regarding material evaluation and analysis.
• Accurately forecasts annual, quarterly, and monthly sales per customer and material with good knowledge of the market.
• Report sales and new project activity on regular basis.
• Monitor and analyze markets and competitors and prepare respective presentation regularly and on demand.

Your Profile:

• Academic degree (university, university of applied sciences, etc.) in organic chemistry, polymer science, mechanical engineering or business administration.
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience or training in engineering plastic or plastic compounding sector; or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.
• Experience in key account management and/or business development.
• Problem solving and analytical skills to interpret sales performance and market trend information.
• Experience in developing marketing and sales strategies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in German and English (business level mandatory).
• Good presentation and documentation skills in German and English.
• Assertiveness and strong negotiations skills as well as persuasive power combined with skilful diplomatic aptitude.
• Strategic and entrepreneurial thinking.
• Highly self-motivated and proactive.
• Self-dependent, efficient, and independent way of working.
• Capability to integrate oneself (“team player”).
• Multicultural attitude.
• Operational readiness and ability to work under pressure.
• Target- and performance-oriented.
• Good user knowledge of current IT portfolio, in particular: MS Office, MS Teams and CRM tools (e.g. Salesforce).

Summary:

Our client is a global corporation with products and solutions used in a number of different industries. Their Polymer Division offers a wide range of specialised thermoplastic solutions tailored for individual needs of their customers. These materials enable their clients to innovate their products, ranging from interior/exterior parts of home appliance and electronic equipment to energy, medical devices and cutting-edge automotive parts.

Your Tasks:

• Establishing customer relationships at all commercial and technical levels to ensure project progression.
• Develop and maintain relationships with existing clients while actively seeking opportunities to expand the customer base.
• Providing commercial service to our customers, in particular support for material selection, part- and mould construction as well as processing and customer claim management.
• Application development in new markets, especially in the automotive industry as well as home appliance, energy, construction, household and medical sectors.
• Ongoing communication of integration across field to manage developing project among customer, sales team and HQ.
• Market research and benchmarking: Procurement of market information and identifying trends for product optimization and to develop new products and materials.

Your Profile:

• University/College degree is required, preferably in plastics or chemical engineering.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in sales and/or application development operations.
• Distinct communication skills and strong service orientation as well as social competence in dealing with different cultures.
• Analytical and conceptual thinking as well as a proactive and independent approach.
• Competence in business principles, including pricing strategies, volume growth metrics and contract negotiations.
• Understanding of plastics market in Turkey, knowledge of key players, market trends, regulations & customer needs.
• Fluency in English and Turkish languages, with skills in MS Office Suite and SAP.
• No military obligation for male candidates.

Summary:

A marketing and sales role to develop and convert new business opportunities for the Engineering Plastic products offered by the company in the Italian market.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Represent the company with comprehensive knowledge and application of the policies.
• Research new customers and identify how the sales policy addresses their needs.
• Managing and expanding relationships with existing customers including problem solving.
• Achieve company objectives by planning thoroughly, setting sales goals, analysing performance and preparing forecasts.
• Ability to motivate and manage a sales team.
• Budget planning.
• Oversee day-to-day operations, which includes anything from customer visits and inquiries, sales offer, logistics, quality topics and payment control.
• Build good working relationships with colleagues within the organisation, communicating clearly and effectively to contribute to the growth of the company.

Skills and knowledge required:

• Relevant education – plastics engineer / materials.
• Five or more years in managing sales of Engineering Polymers in a corporate environment.
• Proved experience in the Automotive Sector (relationship with OEM’s, Tier 1) would be advantageous.
• Record of success in achieving sales results matching assigned budget.
• Initiative and proactive approach.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Good learning ability.
• Assertiveness, reliability and service oriented.
• Fluent in Italian and English language.
• Capacity to travel extensively (at least 80% of the time).

For further details or for an initial confidential telephone discussion please contact Agata Nowak on 0044 7508 251 789 or via email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

OBJECTIVES:

• As a sales representative the incumbent takes care of the assigned customers according to his/her regional responsibilities. Thereby, he/she co-operates with the relevant colleagues in the Customer Service Centre.
• The overall objective is to improve income and sales for all Masterbatch products of the company in accordance with individually agreed targets.
• It’s required that the achievement of the objectives and the operative work follow to the full extent the company’s strategic direction and that the sales activities of the incumbent reveal this direction.

AREAS OF ASSIGNMENT:

Main tasks:

• Budget responsibility for the sales region.
• Strategic planning of sales, volume and gross margin.
• Realisation of corporate strategy in terms of sales and operative work including the resulting tasks.
• Strategic pursuance and evident realisation of agreed objectives.
• Proactive development of sales solutions and purposeful realisation.
• Extension of the customer value through sales of standard and/or high margin products.
• Operative planning (e.g. customer visits and appointments).
• Operative Reporting (e.g. Reports on visits, orders etc.).
• Support of existing customers at their sites.
• Acquisition of new customers.
• Proactive and strategic use of technical resources (TS-MB).
• Travelling activity 60%-80%.

Individual tasks:

• Management of customer orders for the sales region with the support from Customer Service.
• Overview and successful completion of product samples.
• Overview and successful completion of customer orders.
• Support the accounting department with debt collection.
• Identification of individual customers’ requirements (e.g. customer visits).

For further details or for an initial confidential telephone discussion please contact Agata Nowak on 0044 7508 251 789 or via email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Position Purpose:

• Drive innovation and serve as key point of contact for product development across the designated segment.
• Provide support and guidance to the project leaders.

Major / key accountabilities:

Knowledge management:
• Actively share information on scientific, technological developments, market trends, competitor activities, and customer insights within the segment.
• Facilitate communication among stakeholders and promote knowledge sharing.
• Consolidate knowledge through the creation of internal reports.
• Intellectual property management within the assigned segment, including patent filing and patent surveys.
• Train and coach colleagues in the domain of expertise.

Representation and promotion of innovation:
• Engage in the scientific community through networking, conferences, and presentations.
• Foster strong collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of innovation initiatives into the product development process.
• Promote new technologies and products within the company and to customers.

New product and expertise development:
• Manage and execute strategic innovation projects to develop new material solutions for assigned applications and to develop technical expertise for future product and application development projects.
• Organize project meetings, define project deliverables, monitor timelines and resources, and report deviations.
• Consolidate project information in reporting tools.
• Assess and mitigate risks associated with innovation projects.
• Support customer facing team to understand and identify customer or market requirements and technical expectations and translate them into product characteristics.
• Coordinate project execution with internal labs and industrial teams.

Leverage technical expertise to support the organization:
• Assist the Raw Material Manager in surveying raw materials, identifying new raw material projects, and executing the raw material project pipeline.
• Lead strategic raw material projects.
• Support the industrialization team and facilitate the implementation of raw material changes.
• Support the sales organization and industrial team when technical expertise is requested.

Experience:

• At least 8 years of experience in an R&D function within the field of engineering plastics with a deep understanding of products, technologies, and applications.
• Proven experience in effectively managing innovation projects from ideation to completion, including defining project scopes, timelines, and resource allocation.
• Experience in leading and mentoring teams.
• Knowledge or experience in the consumer and/or industrial market.
• PhD or MSc in Polymer Science, Material Science or Chemistry.

Skills:

• Strong leadership skills to guide and inspire cross-functional teams and mentor staff in innovation and product development.
• Proficiency in project management techniques to effectively plan, execute, and monitor innovation projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Achievement drive.
• Customer and business orientation.
• Curiosity.
• Languages: English is required; German/Italian are desirable.

For further details or for an initial confidential telephone discussion please contact Agata Nowak on 0044 1789 266 660 or via email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

OBJECTIVES:

• As a sales representative the incumbent takes care of the assigned customers according to his/her regional responsibilities. Thereby, he/she co-operates with the relevant colleagues in the Customer Service Centre.
• The overall objective is to improve income and sales for all Masterbatch products of the company in accordance with individually agreed targets.
• It’s required that the achievement of the objectives and the operative work follow to the full extent the company’s strategic direction and that the sales activities of the incumbent reveal this direction.

 AREAS OF ASSIGNMENT:

Main tasks:

• Budget responsibility for the sales region.
• Strategic planning of sales, volume and gross margin.
• Realisation of corporate strategy in terms of sales and operative work including the resulting tasks.
• Strategic pursuance and evident realisation of agreed objectives.
• Proactive development of sales solutions and purposeful realisation.
• Extension of the customer value through sales of standard and/or high margin products.
• Operative planning (e.g. customer visits and appointments).
• Operative Reporting (e.g. Reports on visits, orders etc.).
• Support of existing customers at their sites.
• Acquisition of new customers.
• Proactive and strategic use of technical resources (TS-MB).
• Travelling activity 60%-80%.

Individual tasks:

• Management of customer orders for the sales region with the support from Customer Service.
• Overview and successful completion of product samples.
• Overview and successful completion of customer orders.
• Support the accounting department with debt collection.
• Identification of individual customers’ requirements (e.g. customer visits).

For further details or for an initial confidential telephone discussion please contact Agata Nowak on 0044 1789 266 660 or via email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Our client is a Pan-European distribution company of engineering thermoplastics, representing a number of well-known global suppliers of thermoplastic materials.

Main tasks:

• European product marketing and management of assigned suppliers and their products.
• Creating and maintaining product strategies and market development concepts.
• Pricing of the product portfolio and ensuring profit targets.
• Ensuring goal achievement in accordance with annual planning.
• Maintaining and expanding supplier relationships.
• Providing go-to-market packages and content for traditional and digital marketing channels.
• Further development of the project pipeline in collaboration with the Business Development department.
• Continuous market and competition observation.
• Supporting sales and application development in processing product-related customer inquiries.

Requirements:

• Technical studies, preferably in plastics technology with initial professional experience or business studies or training as an industrial clerk in the chemical industry with many years of professional experience.
• Professional experience in product management for technical plastics.
• Self-responsible, independent and goal-oriented way of working with a high level of self-motivation.
• Strong communication skills, goal orientation, excellent organizational skills and a structured way of working.
• Very good oral and written expression in German and English as well as a confident use of MS Office applications and modern information and communication tools.
• Willingness to travel on business within Europe.

Offer:

• An exciting challenge in a successful international group of companies with lived management principles.
• A collegial environment and an attractive workplace in a central location in Hamburg.
• Flexible working hours, further training opportunities and performance-related remuneration.

For further details or for an initial confidential telephone discussion please contact Piotr Smukowski on 0044 1789 266 660 or via email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Position Purpose:

This position is responsible for maximising sales opportunities by developing, maintaining and growing
relationships with our Regional Accounts in Germany. The Account Manager (AM) will lead the
establishment, negotiation, implementation and compliance of agreements, which drive profitable growth
for the company. The AM will focus on deploying site specific customer strategies and programs to retain
existing business, improve penetration and growth of market share.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• AM will be responsible for growing and supporting assigned accounts allowing adequate time to develop relationships with multiple contacts.
• Develop strong relationships across the customer’s organisation to influence decision makers at all levels and drive compliance.
• Manage and maintain pricing strategy for multiple locations. Expand product categories for greater share on market and implement new programs to drive margin improvement.
• Manage extensive travel based on priorities and be responsible for customer action planning and project management to meet growth objectives.
• Negotiate sound and favourable agreements to drive business.
• Acts as the primary point of contact to the customers.
• Working directly with buyers, product development and marketing people at customers to anticipate future needs and ensure that solutions are developed to meet their needs.
• Working closely with the internal technical support team to ensure that customer’s current requirements are understood and met.
• Perform value added selling of the organization through customer education, sample requests, technical service, contract negotiations and quality solution.

Preferred education, experience and skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Management, Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of sales experience in a business-to-business environment demonstrated sales skills.
• At least 5 years of experience in the plastics industry.
• Fluent in German and English.
• The ability to discover and define commercial and technical customer requirements.
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Able to establish and build relationships at all levels.
• Clear sense of ethic and a high standard of professional conduct.
• Self-motivated professional with a straightforward approach to problem solving.
• Team player.

For further details or for an initial confidential telephone discussion please contact Piotr Smukowski on 0044
1789 266 660 or via email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Your tasks:

• Active, technical sales of product portfolio of multifunctional, thermoplastic high-performance compounds.
• Acquisition of new customers and support of existing customers, both at the decision-making level (OEMs, Tiers) and at the processor level.
• Commercial and technical consulting for the use of company’s materials.
• Establishment of long-term and sustainable customer relationships and central contact for internal and external customer-relevant topics.
• Selection of suitable compounds on the basis of customer-specific requirements together with Product Development and Business Development.
• Management and coordination of customer projects from the submission of quotations, sampling and development of specifications through to support for series production.
• Business expansion through multiplication/translation with new and existing customers.
• Continuous market observation and analysis of trends for the further development of business activities as well as networking at trade fairs and customer events.
• Independent control of sales activities: from customer analysis and quotation, through price and contract negotiations, to the implementation of marketing and product strategies, as well as ongoing documentation and monitoring of sales and earnings targets.

Your competencies:

• Completed studies in the field of plastics technology or similar; alternatively, completed training in the plastics industry with corresponding professional experience.
• In-depth knowledge of sales of technical or high-performance thermoplastics.
• Strong commercial as well as technical expertise, preferably with previous experience in automotive, medical, mechanical engineering, etc.
• High level of initiative and many years of experience in project management.
• Strong communication skills, rhetorically adept personality with a confident manner.
• Ability to address customers in a target-oriented manner in order to convince and win new customers.
• Commercial negotiation skills, entrepreneurial and strategic thinking and a strong customer orientation.
• Solution-oriented thinking as well as a self-dependent, goal-oriented - but still very team-oriented way of working.
• Willingness to travel (approx. 50%).
• Very good knowledge of German and English as well as MS Office.

Offer:

• A varied and challenging role with lots of creative freedom and short decision-making paths.
• Sales of top products with a focus on high quality and reliability.
• An extremely motivated, competent team with a good working environment and mutual support.
• Various training and development opportunities.
• Performance-oriented remuneration and entitlement to a company car for private use, 30 vacation days, an employer-funded company pension scheme, accident and occupational disability insurance as well as a canteen at the company’s premises.