Senior Global Technical Director - Engineered Polymers

Job Title: Senior Global Technical Director – Engineered Polymers

Job Location: Brecksville, OH

Job type: Full-Time

Type of role: Hybrid

 

About Lubrizol  
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.   

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Senior Global Technical Director – Engineered Polymers

Unleash Your Potential. The Engineered Polymers business at Lubrizol is a leading global supplier and innovator of thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU) which are used in a wide range of medical, consumer, electronics, and other industrial applications. Its Medical business is a full-service provider for medical device design and development, for manufacturing of medical components and for manufacturing finished medical devices based on a wide range of material portfolio to treat numerous critical health conditions, from minimal invasive to long term implants applications. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

 

What You'll Do:

As a Senior Global Technical Director, you'll be at the forefront of our innovation, driving the global technology organization supporting the Engineered Polymers business. You'll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. The role is accountable for driving innovation, speed to commercialization, manage technology budget, stage gate processes, IP, achieving of innovation project portfolio targets. The role requires alignment of technical projects with the business strategy, and to ensure business needs are prioritized and global platforms are executed effectively.

 

The Senior Global Technical Director will also have dotted line reporting to the Vice President of Engineered Polymer business and be a member of the Engineered Polymer Business Leadership team helping to drive alignment in project priorities for the business. The role will require proactively supporting the commercial teams in identifying new opportunities and expanding our marketing influence and value proposition by engaging industry experts and leading customers.

 

What We're Looking For:

• Provides technology strategic direction for the Engineered Polymer business and ensures high growth regions and key business initiatives are appropriately resourced to win in the future.
• Establishes strong relationships with industry experts and customers, proactively supporting the commercial team in identifying new opportunities and expanding our value proposition and market influence.
• Responsible for budgeting, productivity, and efficiency of the global technology teams. Develops annual and multiyear technical and capital budgets and staffing plans.
• Fosters good communication, teamwork, and strategic alignment while instilling a culture of urgency and accountability for business financial results.
• Keeps up to date on key market and macro trends - leverages emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices (AI, digitalization etc.) to create a best-in-class technology organization.
• Identifies technical needs and solutions through customer and technical professional interfaces and aligns strategic technology priorities wi