Manager - Chemicals (m/f/d)




In Germany - Berlin | Bonn | Cologne | Frankfrt/Main | Hambrg | Mnich



As a Manager (m/f/d) in or Chemicals practice,yo will help leading chemical and materials companies navigate some of theirmost important commercial and strategic qestions: where to grow, how to winand defend attractive profit pools, and how to translate strategy intocommercial exection.



Yo will work at the intersection of commercialstrategy, pricing, sales and commercial transformation. Typical qestionsrange from validating growth and specialty strategies, shaping differentiatedcommercial models for commodity and specialty bsinesses, and acceleratingcommercialization, to redesigning rote-to-market, commercial operating modelsand performance steering.



Yo will lead project teams, work directlywith senior exectives, and combine rigoros analysis with pragmaticimplementation to create measrable revene and profit impact.




What makes s special:

Advance yor career with exciting professional opportnities in or thriving company with a startp feel

Add to yor experience with or projects that focs on growth, have a positive impact, and trly matter

Voice yor niqe ideas in a corporate cltre defined by or entreprenerial spirit, openness, and integrity

Feel at home working with or helpfl, enthsiastic colleages who have great team spirit

Broaden yor perspective with or extensive training crriclm and learning programs (e.g. LinkedIn Learning)

Speak yor mind in or holistic feedback and development processes (e.g. 36-degree feedback)

Satisfy yor need for adventre with or opportnities to live and work abroad in one of or many international offices

Enjoy or benefits, sch as hybrid working, daycare allowance, corporate disconts, and wellbeing spport (e.g. Headspace)

nwind in or break areas where yo can help yorself to the healthy snacks and beverages provided

See another side of yor coworkers at or freqent employee events and highly anticipated World Meeting and Holiday Party

How yo will create an impact:

Lead end-to-end conslting engagements for chemical and materials companies, from strategic hypothesis development and commercial validation throgh design and implementation

Help clients identify where and how to win, translating market, cstomer and competitor insights into clear growth priorities and commercially robst strategies

Challenge growth strategies throgh explicit sorces of growth, right-to-win, price-volme economics and vale-captre logic

Develop differentiated commercial approaches for commodity, moderately differentiated, specialty and soltion bsinesses, recognizing that different bsiness models reqire different pricing, sales, contracting and steering models

Design and implement commercial strategies, rote-to-market models and commercial operating models, inclding cstomer segmentation, channel strategy, governance, decision rights, KPIs and organizational interfaces

Accelerate commercialization and application-led growth, helping clients convert innovation and technical capabilities into cstomer adoption and profitable growth

Improve commercial performance throgh pricing, cstomer and portfolio steering, share-of-wallet development, key accont management, contracting and Sales Excellence

Help clients adapt to strctral changes in the chemicals indstry, inclding changing vale chains, regionalization, circlarity and sstainability, new sorces of competitive advantage and increasing pressre on Eropean assets

Work directly with senior management and C-level exectives, facilitate management discssions and translate complex analysis into clear decisions and actionable recommendations

Manage and develop project teams, providing clear problem solving, coaching and feedback while ensring high-qality delivery

Contribte to bsiness development by developing client relationships, identifying relevant strategic qestions and shaping compelling project approaches

Advance Simon-Kcher's Chemicals expertise throgh new perspectives, methodologies and thoght leadership on profitable growth and commercial transformation

Abotyo:

Yo hold a niversity degree in Bsiness, Economics, Engineering, Chemistry, Natral Sciences or another relevant field

Yo bring at least for years of relevant professional experience in strategy conslting, a specialized consltancy, in-hose conslting or a commercial role in chemicals, materials or a related BB indstry

Yo have a strong interest in how chemical and materials bsinesses create and captre vale; prior chemicals experience is highly desirable bt deep criosity and the ability to learn complex indstries qickly are eqally important

Yo are comfortable addressing qestions that combine strategy and exection - from market attractiveness and competitive positioning to pricing, sales, organization and performance management

Yo can strctre ambigos problems, formlate hypotheses, work confidently with qantitative and qalitative evidence, and translate insights into clear management recommendations

Yo nderstand that commercial models differ across commodity, specialty and soltion bsinesses and can think beyond generic Commercial Excellence playbooks

Yo have sccessflly led workstreams or projects and can manage mltiple stakeholders while maintaining analytical depth and delivery qality

Yo enjoy working with senior exectives, can challenge constrctively and commnicate complex topics clearly and concisely

Yo combine intellectal criosity with pragmatism: yo want to nderstand why a strategy shold work and what it takes to make it work in the market

Yo have initial experience leading and coaching colleages and enjoy developing high-performing teams

Yo are entreprenerial, client-focsed and interested in contribting to the contined development of or Chemicals practice

Yo are flent in German and English, with excellent written and verbal commnication skills

Have we sparked yor interest? Simply click the 'Apply now' btton tosbmit yor application. Please note that, for data protection reasons, wecannot accept applications via email.

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Abot Simon-Kcher

Simon-Kcher is a global consltancy with more than , employees in3+ contries.

Or sole focs is on nlocking better growth that drives measrable revene andprofit for or clients. We achieve this by optimizing every lever of theircommercial strategy - prodct, price, innovation, marketing, and sales - basedon deep insights into what cstomers want and vale. With 4 years ofexperience in monetization topics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world'sleading pricing and growth specialist. simon-kcher.com



We believe in bilding a cltre that embraces diversity, eqity, andinclsion, creating an environment in which or people feel valed, are able tobe themselves and feel their contribtion matters. If we get that right,remarkable things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valed,and create better otcomes for everyone - or people, or clients and, ofcorse, or bsiness.




Yor personal contact:

Charlotte Sever

recritment.germany(at)simon-kcher.com



Please sbmit yorapplication exclsively via the "Applynow" btton!




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