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Company

Kemira · 4 days ago

Research Manager

Atlanta Metro

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

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ChemicalChemical Engineering

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Responsibilities

Leadership. Provide strong leadership and management of an Rearch team supporting a variety of areas focus on sustainability.

Processes. Effectively communicates with stakeholders to fully understand their needs in terms of purpose, quality, and timing. Actively participate on project teams for new product development and segment discovery that leads to new areas for Kemira. Aligns departmental activities and initiatives with the company vision, strategy, and processes. Ensures the continuous improvement of competencies and technologies for technical customer support and new product development.

Resources. Ensures resources (internal and external) are allocated to most efficiently resolve customers’ technical issues. Establish and manage the team budget.

Performance. Accountable for team performance in terms of effectiveness and measured in terms of the quality of the work delivered and efficiency (time taken and resources used).

Team Management. Ensure appropriate handling of staff concerns; resolve conflicting demands on staff members; allocate team and other resources to projects and processes; ensure efficient and effective working of team; maintain effective working environment.

Staff Development. Set appropriate objectives for direct reports, measure their performance against objectives, manage performance gaps. Assess training and development needs; and produce and execute development plans. Act as the primary in regular and annual reviews for direct reports.

Coordination. Contributes regularly with the global analytical team on competency development, capital planning across the R&D centers. Contributes to Management Team and work with other departmental managers and Key Stakeholders to ensure proper alignment of objectives and smooth running of company processes and procedures on a day to day basis.

Qualification

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ChemistryManagerial experiencePulpPaper knowledgeWater treatment knowledgeCultural effectivenessDriving executionBusiness acumenCoaching/teachingEmpowerment/delegationTeam developmentChange leadershipTeamwork skills

Required

PhD/MSc/BSc Engineering, Chemistry or similar discipline from an accredited college/university and 10+ years of relevant experience (3+ years managerial in an R&D environment)

Interpersonal skills: customer orientation, cultural interpersonal effectiveness, communicating with impact

Business management skills: driving execution, business acumen, entrepreneurship, project leadership

Leadership skills: coaching/teaching, empowerment/delegation, team development, change leadership

Proven supervisory and teamwork skills in a fast paced and challenging environment

Preferred

Knowledge of Pulp and Paper and/or Water treatment markets/testing a plus

Company

Kemira

At Kemira, you’ll be part of a team of more than 5,000 people who are creating a more sustainable future through chemistry.

Founded in 1920

Helsinki, Southern Finland, FIN

1,001-5,000 employees

http://www.kemira.com/

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