Job Title:

Sr Director Global Analytical & Process Technology (m/f/d)

Summary:

The Senior Director, Global Analytical and Process Technology is responsible for providing visionary leadership for a global chemical process technology and The Senior Director (m/w/d), Global Analytical and Process Technology is responsible for providing visionary leadership for a global chemical process technology and analytical organization, consisting of ca. 100 employees at 12 different sites, while offering opportunities for individuals to grow into their responsibilities. This person will be responsible for driving company-wide process technology and analytical chemistry innovation, establishing state of the art unit operations strengthening the cost position and market viability of key product lines. In addition, the person holding this role is the owner of scale up and commercialization of new products as part of Momentive’s new product introduction process, ensuring delivery of robust technology solutions to the market in close co-operation with global manufacturing.
This individual will be responsible for assessing competitive technologies from within the industry and across other related industries to benchmark Momentive’s current state and develop the short and long range plan to support significant advancements in Momentive’s current operation and product portfolio base.
The current organization is composed of highly skilled, multi-disciplined scientists and engineers (m/w/d) who are responsible for delivering new chemical process technology, analytical science and manufacturing excellence improvements for Momentive world-wide. The Senior Director (m/w/d), Global Analytical and Process Technology will provide strategic technical leadership to drive research and development to innovate leading edge, competitive manufacturing technology.

Responsibilities Include:

• Serve as a global thought leader (m/w/d) and set the vision and overall technical direction for the team through development of a long-term strategy and technology roadmap that is aligned with our business growth strategy and customer needs.  

• Globally lead the innovation of next-generation competitive manufacturing technology. Guide tracking of chemical process technology trends and patent art. Assure strong intellectual property positions and freedom-to-practice for new technologies.  

• Create and manage the global program portfolio, prioritize technical resources, and drive the activities of the global research team to achieve sustainable margin growth.  

• Oversee all MPM pilot facilities globally to achieve excellence in new product scale-up and new process technology development. 

• Drive strategic productivity and capacity initiatives across all sites to maintain competitive cost structure, to support growth, and to improve sustainability.  

• Drive an engaged and motivated organization through continuous and effective communication at all levels. Actively optimize the talent pipeline of leaders and individual contributions through hiring, training, and development programs as well as cross-fertilization of talent beyond the direct reporting line.

• Champion an open and inclusive organization, where partnership leads to a motivated, engaged, and committed team.

• Provide process technology leadership for the Global Technology and Global Operations Organizations to ensure continuous improvement in the production of all products and intermediates in accordance with customer quality, timing, and volume requirements. 

• Serve as the EHS ambassador (m/w/d) for the Analytical and Process Technology Organization and assume leadership responsibility for both personal and team safety.  Embrace Momentive‘s core values, drive a culture of safety, continuous improvement, and quality excellence within the Technology organization. Assist in leading safety initiatives throughout the labs and plants and ensure efforts of the global team are in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. 

• Collaborate with manufacturing sites to assure capability to meet customer product needs. Collaborate with product development and marketing to provide new product manufacturing platforms and to assure successful product scale ups.  

• Collaborate with Quality Control at all sites to develop and implement new analytical test methods to accurately measure the properties of MPM commercial products.  

• Demonstrate leadership in business process improvement by championing tools such as Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma. 

• Act as strong change agent. Chal