Market Development Manager
Posted on: 11 Apr 2021
Kingsport, TN
Job Description
Responsibilities
This position is for an experienced market development manager to develop feedstock partnerships and support feedstock procurement as part of Eastman's Circular Economy platform.
Note: This position could also be contract instead of full-time employment if preferred by the right candidate.
The job responsibilities are as follows:
1.) Discover opportunities for feedstock sourcing from waste collection, waste plastic, and plastic manufacturing value chains.
2.) Develop key relationships in the waste industry
3.) Use industry experience to develop partnership options that provide win/win opportunities for Eastman and suppliers
4.) Collaborate with key partners in Eastman's Technology function, to establish key fitness-for-use requirements for feedstock sources
5) Collaborate with Procurement and Manufacturing to qualify suppliers
5.) Partner with colleagues as part of other cross-functional teams including technology, manufacturing, business, HSES, etc. to drive Circular Economy initiatives.
8.) Provide timely communications to management and project stakeholders by communicating project needs, value, priorities, and decisions to ensure project success.
Qualifications
Required Degree: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Business, or Marketing with 10+ years experience in the plastics recycling industry.
Additional Qualifications:
Commitment to high level of safety and environmental awareness.
Experience developing industry partnerships
Experience with PET recycling (preferred)
Experience with textile industry (preferred)
Exhibit good leadership attitudes and behaviors.
Must be a self-starter with a focus on results. Ability to lead and drive challenging projects forward despite uncertainties.
Confident in working within a matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders.
Comfortable challenging peers and supervision to develop creative solutions.
Excellent written, listening, and verbal communication skills
Eastman Chemical
Kingsport, TN
Eastman Chemical Company operates as an advanced materials and specialty additives company worldwide. The company’s Additives & Functional Products segment offers specialty coalescent, specialty and commodity solvents, paint additives, and specialty polymers; hydrocarbon and rosin resins; insoluble sulfur and anti-degradant rubber additives; performance resins; amine derivative-based building blocks; heat transfer and aviation fluids; organic acid-based solutions; and metam-based soil fumigants, thiram and ziram based fungicides, and plant growth regulators. It serves the transportation, consumables, building and construction, animal nutrition, crop protection, energy, personal and home care, and other markets.
Its Advanced Materials segment provides co-polyesters, cellulose esters, polyvinyl butyral (PVB) sheets, specialty PVB intermediates, and window and protective films, and aftermarket applied film products for value-added end uses in the transportation, consumables, building and construction, durable goods, and health and wellness markets. The company’s Chemical Intermediates segment offers Olefin and acetyl derivatives, ethylene, and commodity solvents; primary non-phthalate and phthalate plasticizers, and niche non- phthalate plasticizers; and methylamines and salts higher amines and solvents to the industrial chemicals and processing, building and construction, health and wellness, and agrochemicals.
Its Fibers segment provides cellulose acetate tow, triacetin, cellulose acetate flake, and acetic anhydride for use in filtration media primarily cigarette filters; natural and solution dyed acetate yarns for use in consumables, and health and wellness markets; and wet-laid nonwoven media, specialty and engineered papers, and cellulose acetate fibers for transportation, industrial, agriculture and mining, aerospace, personal hygiene, and consumables markets. Eastman Chemical Company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee.
-
IndustryConsumers goods
-
No. of Employees14, 500
-
Website
-
Jobs Posted218
