Market Development Engineer - Medical

Celanese

82d • Remote

About The Position

The Market Development Engineer - Medical is responsible for driving new customer engagement, identifying emerging opportunities, and expanding market presence within key medical and healthcare segments. The engineer proactively drives material specification at OEMs, medical device manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and component molders. This individual develops a deep working knowledge of the medical value chain, including regulatory considerations, sterilization methods, biocompatibility requirements, and clinical application needs. The individual provides technical expertise in material selection, part design, processing and performance requirements of Celanese products and offers technical support throughout the product development life cycle.

Requirements

• Ability to work with customers to develop a tailored solution
• Develop deep customer and market knowledge. Draw connections to foresee future trends and develop opportunities to grow and innovate
• Ability to interact, influence and facilitate at several levels of the organization
• Must be willing to prospect for new customers/projects and develop strategies for identifying and targeting new customers and segment strategies
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Science or Technical Field
• 7 years required in plastics or related field
• Technical expertise combined with business or market development experience required
• Willingness to travel - 50%

Nice To Haves

• Application development experience
• Customer identification and prospecting
• Customer focus and urgency
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to interact, influence and facilitate at several levels of the organization
• Strong focus on results
• Good understanding of business interactions
• Established experience and network within the Medical space
• Specific knowledge of semicrystalline engineering resins and their applications
• 10+ Years in plastics or related field preferred

Responsibilities

• Generates opportunities for new business growth
• Manages internal new product development (NPD), testing, computer-aided engineering and external developments to drive projects to close
• Targets new customers in selected market spaces
• Works with new customers to determine potential applications and best Celanese material solutions
• Works with Account Manager at existing customers to develop new applications and provide technical support as needed

Benefits

• Celanese is a global leader in chemistry, producing specialty material solutions used across most major industries and consumer applications. Our businesses use our chemistry, technology and commercial expertise to create value for our customers, employees and shareholders. We support sustainability by responsibly managing the materials we create and growing our portfolio of sustainable products to meet customer and societal demand. We strive to make a positive impact in our communities and to foster inclusivity across our teams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees