Title:  Sr. Specialist, WQQM, Applications and Marketing, Americas

Join us and develop your career while creating a more sustainable future! You’ll be part of a global team of more than 5,000 people and 60 nationalities, where diverse perspectives are valued and you can bring your authentic self to work every day. At Kemira you are empowered to reach your full potential, deliver innovation, and make an impact. We embrace a growth mindset, so we can deliver more value to our customers and communities.

Kemira is a global leader in sustainable chemistry for water intensive industries. For more than 100 years, our chemistry has advanced human progress and quality of life. Kemira’s solutions help our customers in the pulp and paper, water, and energy industries clean water, save energy and use natural resources responsibly, while improving their productivity and enabling more sustainable business. We call it chemistry with a purpose, better every day.

Kemira’s Paper division offers the pulp and paper industry high-end products and applications, outstanding know-how and service in order to optimize customers’ manufacturing processes and to increase their productivity and profitability.

As part of our Advance Water Treatment team the Principal Specialist provides advanced product and application expertise with significant impact in supporting the field sales force for water treatment chemical sales (Incoming water clarification and filtration, in-process water clarification, effluent treatment…). The role provides guidance on product selection, testing, troubleshooting and communicating to mill personnel.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Provide technical support for field sales including testing protocols, product selection, application criteria, feed equipment and troubleshooting application performance.
• Contribute to profitable product line growth through commercialization of core technologies, technical sales training and optimizing applications.
• Contribute to the development of new technologies, applications and business opportunities and strategy.
• Provide technical lead on major and complex customer and internal projects (ex. corp.bids ).

What you can expect from us:

• Opportunities for personal and professional growth
• Employment in a stable company with an established position in the market
• Attractive benefits package
• A multicultural and positive working environment

What you’ll bring to the team:

• B.S. Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or other technical related discipline
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Paper Applications, Sales or R&D
• Advanced technical knowledge and broad understanding of effluent water process
• Proven track record of solving complex technical problems
• Familiarity with data analysis and reporting
• Valid Driver License
• Ability to travel 60-80%

Join Kemira and create better every day

Please apply with CV & salary expectations at kemira.com/careers.

Kemira is an equal opportunity employer.

Kemira is a global leader in sustainable chemical solutions for water-intensive industries. We provide the best-suited products and services to improve our customers' product quality, process, and resource efficiency. Our focus is on pulp & paper, water treatment, and energy sectors. In 2022, Kemira had annual revenue of around 3.6 billion and around 5,000 employees. Kemira shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd.

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