Chemist

R24 Recruitment; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000

Job description

This range is provided by R24 Recruitment. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

Salary: £40,000-£45,000 + Bonus + Training & Progression opportunities within group

This is an opportunity for an experienced Chemist to join an innovative and dynamic team that builds and fosters collaborations across global innovation and R&D centres. This role will work closely with portfolio managers, business development managers, and marketing teams and is fully aligned with the strategic business objectives.

What the Project Chemist role offers:

1. Project Leadership: Leading projects to develop new products, processes, and solutions to meet customers' needs through collaborative work and continuous improvement.
2. Innovative Projects: Engage in cutting-edge business projects, developing and testing new solutions. Translate customer requirements into tangible product features.
3. Collaborative Environment: Work closely with other teams worldwide to deliver high-performance solutions that meet customer needs. Your role will involve a mix of office-based tasks and hands-on lab work.
4. Customer Interaction: The client believes a thorough customer understanding is essential in developing the right products that do what customers care about.
5. Continuous Improvement: It means challenging the status quo, listening to understand and imagine possibilities for a better future that does not yet exist.
6. Together is better: The client realises that great things can only come from collaboration and diverse thinking.
7. Sustainability: This is a key focus for the client, who aims to deliver the same performance customers expect from their products with a much lower impact on our planet.

Duties of The Project Chemist

1. Project Leadership/Management: Lead and manage business critical projects, from exploration to launch, putting customer needs at the heart of everything.
2. Product Development: Hands-on approach to formulating and testing of innovative products and prototypes as well as data analysis. Furthermore, you will turn data into information and communicate findings across the company.
3. Cross-functional Collaboration: Work alongside culturally diverse and international teams contributing to continuous improvement and high standards of performance.

Experience & Educational background

1. Educational Background: A degree in a scientific discipline (e.g. Materials Science, Chemistry, or Chemical Engineering)
2. Experience: 2-5 years of experience working as a scientist or project leader, with a proven track record of managing and leading projects.
3. Skills: Strong project leadership and communication skills. A proactive approach to problem-solving and innovation. Ability to turn data into information and what that data means.
4. Curiosity: An inquisitive mind, persistence, tenacity, and an ability to think outside the box.

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Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Manufacturing, Science, and Research

Industries

Manufacturing, Chemical Manufacturing, and Chemical Raw Materials Manufacturing