Job Detail

Clariant is a globally leading specialty chemicals company, based in Muttenz near Basel/Switzerland. On 31 December 2017 the company employed a total workforce of 18 135. In the financial year 2017, Clariant recorded sales of CHF 6.377 billion for its continuing businesses. The company reports in four business areas: Care Chemicals, Catalysis, Natural Resources, and Plastics & Coatings. Clariant’s corporate strategy is based on five pillars: focus on innovation through R&D, add value with sustainability, reposition portfolio, intensify growth, and increase profitability.

We are looking for a leader who has a strategic mindset and a vision for the Crop industry, able to accelerate growth by leveraging an ex-tensive toolbox and products portfolio that includes a game changing subset of disruptive innovations.


Responsibilities

• Develop global segment strategy with focus on midterm aspiration


• Operationalize into a strategic execution plan with concrete actions and measures specific for all regions


• Shape the segment council to follow through on execution and use it as a core decision body for innovation implementation, customers joint development agreements and competitive defense strategy


• Challenge regions’ 5-year plans with analytical market intelligence, bring out insights and use them to build our differentiation


• Identify new application and/or service needs within the segment


• Give input into the product innovation roadmap and pipeline


• Manage the roll-out of new global technologies and products


• Guide and advise in actual sales activities, e.g. tender/bids, on-site visits


• Advise on strategic commercial investments, e.g. systems, tools, vendors

Requirements

• An agronomy degree in combination with an MBA or advanced degree in strategic marketing or a technical background in agronomy or chemicals, completed with analytical marketing skills in both a B2B environment and


• Experience in the crop protection industry of more than 10 years, especially working for or with a global key player


• Commercial progressive leadership in B2B marketing; a balance practice of all marketing disciplines; product management, strategy design, value based positioning,


• Global experience and focal leadership of regional implementation of innovations


• Organize participation and potential presentations in scientific and applied symposia


• Contribute globally in the coordination of field trials on our innovations


• Excellent analytical and communication skills.


• Fluent in English, German is a plus.

Our offer:

• A high performing and motivated global Crop Solution team environment with state of the art agrochemical application development methodology


• Interesting innovation portfolio with potential to make an impact in agriculture


• A very interesting, diverse and challenging range of tasks


• Attractive and performance-based compensation


• The social benefits of a modern company


• Individual training and modern project management tools