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Our client is an award winning specialty chemicals business that designs and manufactures a range of resins and specialist polymers. The company serves a broad range of sectors, including food packaging, construction, renewables, pharmaceuticals and aerospace. A key technology is coatings.

Reporting to the Operations Director, the Head of Product Quality & Development is a new role designed to improve efficiencies of these functions.  The position will oversee and manage activities for the R&D lab, QC Lab and quality control operations, which includes customer success. The role will manage an overall team of 15 via 3 direct reports.

• You will have a degree. MSc pr PhD in polymer chemistry. materials science or chemical engineering and ideally experience working in relevant fields, such as the coatings sector
• Knowledge of specific chemistries such as epoxy would be helpful but is not essential.
• You will have solid experience working in a lab (5-10 years envisaged) and subsequently been involved with day-to-day lab management involving budgeting, reporting and planning as well as managing the activities of chemists / technicians
• You may have moved into a customer-facing role such as technical services, interacting with customers and being responsible for liaising with R&D to ensure client expectations are exceeded.
• You may also have experience managing the quality function and be a champion of continuous improvement methodologies
• You must be an excellent communicator and be someone who likes to take responsibility and ensure deadlines are met
• You must also be a good manager who knows how to get the best out of people and work across departments for the overall success of the business.