Head of Business Development – 4407

  • Full Time
  • Horgen, Zurich, Switzerland
  • TBD USD / Year
  • Inventa Group profile




  • Job applications may no longer being accepted for this opportunity.


Inventa Group

Inventa Projects is specialized in the design and implementation of industrial plants and has the necessary know-how and technology in house, process development, process commercialization and scale-up.

Inventa Projects are also constantly working on the improvement and optimization of existing chemical and biochemical processes with the aim to increase yield and conversion to make systems more economic while protecting the environment. Inventa Projects focuses on state-of-the-art mass transfer and separation technologies with a wide range of applications.

Inventa Projects has a very important partnership with the startup Circular Group (Circular Energy, Circular Innovation and Circular Industries) as service provider. Circular is a startup science-oriented biotech company and committed towards the Circular Economy. The technologies platforms involve the following main application areas:

  • Bio Solvents and Surfactants (for Cosmetic, Home Care and Pharma Industries)
  • Bio Monomers (for Polymer and Textile Industries)
  • Renewable Molecules for Energy Sector (Sustainable Aviation Fuel, Biodiesel, Liquid Energy Carriers, including Bio Electricity)
  • Solutions for different challenges by the use of proprietary technologies such as Ozonolysis, Ketonization, Fermentation of different green wastes to volatile fatty acids, Hydrogenation, Amidation, Sterification and Polimerization Processes.

Tasks

This position has initially no team to support all these activities: Hands-on and capable of managing sales, product stewardship and marketing, pricing, process technology knowledge to propose business opportunities and corporate finance background to proper assessment of costs, project valuations and cash flow

Good understanding of process technologies in different supply-chains in chemical industry to bridge potential solutions based on Inventa and Circular’s technologies

Requirements

  • +5 years of practice experience with jet reactor for industrial gas/liquid and liquid/liquid reactions.
  • +10 years of experience in business development and strategic marketing positions in market listed chemical companies in bio renewable chemicals, solvents, surfactants, oleochemicals and base petrochemicals (natural gas, naphtha, ethane, propane, olefins, aromatics, polymer monomers and commodity polymers).
  • +10 years of experience as head/responsible of strategic marketing or business development or new business development whose main functions were:
  • Research on industry trends and adjacent businesses
  • Technical, economic, and key success factors analysis of strategic options
  • Technical, economic, and key success factors analysis of new technologies mainly in renewable chemicals
  • Strategic partnerships negotiations and development
  • Value based pricing
  • Formulating and monitoring company strategy and leading presentations to board of directors
  • Business plan modelling for organic opportunities and M&A
  • Focal point for investment banks and M&A
  • Led and approved chemical projects whose investments > CHF 100 million
  • +5 years in cosmetic, personal care, home care and paints & coatings global markets
  • +5 years of experience in global process technology licensing business
  • +3 years as global executive key account manager
  • +3 years of finance manager experience to support the startup in healthy growth.
  • Good understanding of process technologies in different supply-chains in chemical industry to bridge potential solutions based on Inventa and Circular’s technologies
  • Hands-on and capable of managing sales, product stewardship and marketing, pricing, process technology knowledge to propose business opportunities and corporate finance background to proper assessment of costs, project valuations and cash flow.
  • Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and/or chemistry
  • MBA or Master in corporate finance is mandatory as projects are usually capital intensive and business cases valuation are key to discuss with partners.Fluent English

Process to be closed until mid-january/2024

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