<p>Technical Development Manager, Nutraceuticals</p> <p>Technical Development Manager - Nutraceuticals</p> <p>This role is remotely based in the West Coast preferably California, Arizona, Nevada, or Utah.</p> <p>The Technical Development Manager (TDM) partners with the Technical Account Manager (TAM) within a geographic region to drive opportunity development from concept through pre-commercialization to market and is responsible for engaging with customer technical teams and focusing on formulation development using IMCD's broad ingredient portfolio. This includes various active delivery systems and routes of administration for solid dose immediate and modified release, liquid suspension, and topical delivery among others.</p> <p>Other TDM activities include presentation creation for internal and external training workshops related to ingredient technology and formulation development and may include using the extensive catalogue of supplier presentations. The TDM is encouraged to contribute to drafting articles, posters, and technical literature. The TDM engages with principal partners to review project pipelines and coordinate customer joint visits. Reporting to Technical Director, North America, the TDM will liaise with Principal Managers (PM) to ensure strategic initiatives are coordinated and implemented with IMCD's sales teams and customers.</p> <p>COMPANY BACKGROUND</p> <p>IMCD US is a leading global distribution partner and formulator of specialty chemicals and ingredients. An entrepreneurial group founded IMCD in 1995 in the Netherlands. Our vision to transform the distribution industry by continuously adding value to the supply chain through expertise and innovation, is what still drives us today.</p> <p>Today, we have operations in over 50 countries, where we successfully combine local knowledge with global expertise to obtain sustainable results. IMCD is a strong, innovative business partner and accelerator of solutions for suppliers and producers of consumer, industrial and durable goods in diverse business sectors. Our commercial excellence and solid operations structure facilitate healthy growth.</p> <p>Successful candidates will be responsible to:</p> <p>Travel to customers' research & development and manufacturing sites to promote, support, and encourage principals' products and IMCD concept use.</p> <p>Develop and lead technical application discussions with customer technical and operations groups as well as sales teams using the various technical information tools available.</p> <p>Routinely demonstrate ability to understand customer core formulation initiatives and guide development and troubleshooting strategies.</p> <p>Recommend formulation excipient and process selection, based on customer targets.</p> <p>Organize timely customer sample acquisition in cooperation with sales support, principal managers and/or principals.</p> <p>Prepare and present technical information (oral and written) for both internal and external training seminars and workshops and product promotion events.</p> <p>Coordinate training for sales teams and other personnel as required.</p> <p>Support IMCD technical resources, when appropriate, including the NJ Pharma Technical Centre for purposes of customer support.</p> <p>Collaborate with Technical Marketing Team for coordinated promotion of new products and initiatives.</p> <p>Prepare Key Project reports, customer visit itineraries, and associated reports.</p> <p>Use CRM software tools to create opportunities and tasks, respond to enquiries, update project database, and capture notes of key customer and principal interactions.</p> <p>Liaise with Principals' technical counterparts to discuss customer project activities and coordinate joint technical meetings with customers.</p> <p>Skills:</p> <p>Proactive customer engagement and committed to driving opportunity pipeline growth.</p> <p>Passionate, outgoing, highly energetic, self-starter, and self-motivated.</p> <p>Naturally shows initiative and is solution focused.</p> <p>Provides strong leadership to achieve growth targets.</p> <p>Well-presented and articulate.</p> <p>Able to identify and engage decision makers.</p> <p>Able and willing to adapt to changing business and technical landscapes.</p> <p>Required Qualifications:</p> <p>Degree in Industrial Pharmacy/Pharmaceutics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related scientific discipline required; advanced degree preferred.</p> <p>Minimum of 10 years' experience in pharmaceutical/nutraceutical laboratory or industrial pharmacy environment with an emphasis in formulation development in Oral/Topical dosage forms.</p> <p>Desired Qualifications:</p> <p>An understanding of the nutraceutical development process is preferred.</p> <p>Knowledge of solid dosage form development and manufacturing major pharmaceutical or nutraceutical processes and formulation and manufacture of finished dosage forms.</p> <p>Experience giving strong technical presentation skills at an academic or industry forum required.</p> <p>Excellent oral and written communication skills required</p> <p>Background as a Pharmacist formulator or in similar product development background preferred</p> <p>Strong ability for customer interfacing exposure to customer interaction</p> <p>Ideal candidate will possess commercial/business development as well as technical abilities.</p> <p>Competencies:</p> <p>Business Acumen</p> <p>Problem Solving/Analysis</p> <p>Customer/Client Focus</p> <p>Communication Proficiency</p> <p>Teamwork Orientation</p> <p>Supervisory Responsibility:</p> <p>This position has no supervisory responsibilities.</p> <p>Work Environment</p> <p>This job currently operates in a remote work environment.</p> <p>Travel</p> <p>Around 40-50% travel is expected for this role.</p> <p>Other Duties</p> <p>Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.</p> <p>IMCD Offers</p> <p>If you want to make a real difference and work for a growing and expertise-driven company, then we'd love to hear from you.?We're looking for people who are experts in their field, be it technical, commercial, or managerial. By joining IMCD, you'll be part of an entrepreneurial, fast-growing group of ambitious and like-minded professionals, where you'll have the freedom to make your own mark. We're rooted in chemistry and specialty ingredients - yet operate like a professional services firm. As a truly international company, we have a presence in cities including Singapore, Melbourne, Milan, Cologne, Paris, Zurich, Los Angeles, São Paulo and Toronto. Our Group Office is in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and our shares are traded on the Amsterdam Euronext market, where we are part of the large cap AEX index.</p>