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We bond with customers and partners to address today and tomorrow’s megatrends. As a global leader in Materials, Chemicals and Solutions, Solvay brings advancements in planes, cars, batteries, smart and medical devices, water and air treatment, to solve critical industrial, social and environmental challenges. You can count on our innovative solutions to contribute to safer, cleaner and more sustainable future.
Role Overview
We are looking for:
- The Customer Technical Development (CTD) function is designed to provide strong technical expertise and value to our customers by leveraging the entire product portfolio, resources, and know-how of the Green Hydrogen Platform.
- The CTD is to provide professional and timely technical expertise to customers, partner with a commercial team to develop new projects of the company’s products to the green hydrogen platform (GHP) markets, especially in redox flow battery, fuel cell and electrolyzer market segments.
We count on you for:
- To provide the technical development to the GHP related accounts located in China, including application / development support, material selection, design review, troubleshooting and productivity improvement etc.
- Align resources with local customer needs with global Solvay teams, ensure customers have smooth use of our products in their production process and address/resolve the complaints in a timely manner.
- To track / communicate / report the status of the development products situation. Work with the Global CTD community, and R&I teams, to develop and implement solutions for customer applications.
- To provide technical marketing activities to the sales team for marketing documents, marketing programs, trade shows and seminars etc.
- To provide market intelligence / development trends for global new product development and product optimization. To share his /her expertise with whole CTD team, support to build up one total-solution team.
You can count on us for:
- This role offers a unique opportunity for you to be part of a growing family and participate in the ambitious transformation journey Solvay is launching in order to further upscale our capabilities.
- It gives you the opportunity to be recognized as the orchestrator of our family and benefit from a large autonomy to define how we will reach our ambitions with respect to process standardization (think globally, steer regional and local deployments).
You will bring:
- Ph.D. or Master Degree in Polymer Science, Electrochemical science, or Materials Science.
- 3 to 8 years’ experience in the industry including technical service or research and development. Strong hands-on experience of electrochemistry and polymer processing and development.
- Understand the assessment and certification process for the redox flow battery, fuel cell and electrolyzer applications.
- Able to travel within China frequently
- Able to work and communicate clearly with internal and external interfaces
- Be open, self-confident and generate great teamwork spirit
- Strong desires for success, self-motivated, proactively looking for new challenges, especially in the Hydrogen field.
- Fluent in Chinese + English and ability to communicate in both languages locally and globally.
You will get:
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- 16 weeks of maternity/paternity and co-parenting leave
- Training platform for all employees
- Free language courses (24 languages available)
- Free well-being sessions (physical and psychological)
Additional information:
- Frequent travel in mainland China.
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About us
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Solvay’s purpose is to bond people, ideas and elements to reinvent progress. We can only fulfill this purpose with a diverse workforce that feels respected and appreciated, and has equal opportunities to work, grow and thrive. Our differences, visible or not, are valued. As Solvay seeks to promote unity and not uniformity, we invite you - regardless of background, age, gender, race, national origin, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, ability or identity - to consider a future with us.
