Applications Specialist - Industrial Lubricants - #1660072

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This position is in Cargills food and bioindustrial?business, where manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need, and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products.

Benefits

Highly competitive base salary plus comprehensive benefits package including; Company Car or Car allowance, BUPA Healthcare, contributory pension, life assurance, performance related bonus and employee assistance scheme.

Job Purpose and Impact

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The Market Applications Specialist role, within our Energy Technologies R&D team, will bring their deep technical expertise in the Industrial lubricants field to support customer developments with existing products and new technology developments working together with our sales organisation to deliver our ambitious growth targets.

The role holder will have excellent customer-facing skills and be adept at solving customer problems, particularly in the following application areas: Hydraulics, Gear, and Environmentally Acceptable Lubricants, ideally with a strong knowledge of industrial lubricant formulations.

In addition, the role holder will have an in-depth knowledge of market trends and will be able to support the strategic direction of innovation in the Industrial Lubricants space, through close interaction with commercial colleagues.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide deep technical support to a wide customer-base across Europe, and occasionally in other regions, to drive business generation and retention
• Drive the generation of value-adding customer specific projects to support technology adoption and define technical solutions which will deliver on customer needs
• Be the 'Go-to' person for technical input on the Industrial Lubricants market across Cargills Energy Technologies business, with an ability to articulate existing technical needs and anticipate likely future directions
• Be the key technical expert who oversees new product, data or formulation development projects within the Industrial Lubricants area
• Available to travel 25% to 35%
  
  

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in English
• Demonstrated success in new product development and data generation related to Industrial Lubricants
• Strong experience of technically supporting an expert customer base in a deeply technical market
• Ideally a working knowledge of Intellectual Property and patent strategy
• Ideally a knowledge of Chemistry to support structure-performance evaluations
• Strong level of business acumen
  
  

Our Offer

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