Technical Sales / Business Development to Lignin Industries

at  Jurek Recruitment Consulting AB

Join our impact! We are building the most scalable biobased material to reduce carbon emissions, this is a job with purpose where you get to solve one of the planet´s biggest challenges.
You need a passion for driving sustainable solutions to the plastic industry and an energy that matches the fast-track pace our business is on.
We´re looking for a highly motivated individual within Technical Sales to manage our growing engineering material portfolios. If you want to establish requirements for new products, determine features and follow the product from development to launch, we want you as part of our team.
Lignin Industries is a young, innovative, and fast-growing company in the Greentech sector. The company has patented a revolutionary technology transforming lignin, one of the most abundant unused biobased polymers on earth, into a renewable and functional biobased material replacing fossil plastics, driving superior potential to reduce CO2 emissions.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Worked within technical sales or similar roles for +3 years, ideally in cross-functional teams
• Experience from relevant industry such as plastics, packaging etc, or/and material science, chemistry, physics, or engineering background.
• Project-oriented mindset.
• Customer focused and solution-oriented with an affinity for data analytics.
• Communicates fluently both written and oral in English. Swedish and German language skills are meritorious.

• Have the network and industrial knowledge to converse on all technical aspects.
• Generate business opportunities through network / lead generation.
• Communicate at all levels of a decision-making process.
• Identify the customer needs and technical requirements.
• Strength in internal communications is key.
• Manage opportunities through development, evaluation, and commercialisation of new or modified material grades and support efforts in continuous improvement.
• Be all over the data – make intelligent decisions backed up by qualified insights and market data.
• Have the character to fail successfully – take immediate learnings to help strengthen our knowledge-base and develop successful solutions.
• Attend relevant conferences and trade shows.
  In this role, you will report to our Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and work as part of a cross-functional team.