About this Position We are seeking a skilled PD Specialist – Polyurethane Adhesives to drive formulation development and commercialization for flexible packaging applications. This role involves adapting global solutions to regional needs, supporting scale-up, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance, cost-effective products. You will also engage with customers to provide technical support and ensure continuous improvement while maintaining safety and quality standards.
What you´ll do
- Product Development: Formulation development polyurethane adhesives for flexible packaging applications, aligned with regional requirements and customer needs.
- Localization & Customization: Localize global formulations to adapt to regional raw materials and market requirements, ensuring cost-effectiveness and performance.
- Scale-Up & Commercialization: Manage the transition from lab to pilot to full production scale, including batch processing, mixing studies, and documentation.
- Customer Engagement: Conduct customer trials, provide technical support, and gather feedback for continuous improvement of the formulations.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with global teams, sales, marketing, supply chain, and application engineers to ensure on-time project execution and value creation.
- Safety, Quality & 5S Compliance: Ensure compliance with Henkel SHEQ standards and 5S principles. Actively promote and maintain a safe and clean laboratory environment.
- Technical knowhow & Troubleshooting: Provide on-site customer support, resolve application issues for new development, and drive root cause analysis for performance deviations.
