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About you and this role
Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd (Dow India) is committed to being the most innovative, sustainable, inclusive, and customer-centric materials science company in the world. With a broad technology portfolio, Dow delivers science-based products and solutions for high-growth segments such as packaging, infrastructure, and consumer care. Dow India employs over 1000 people across six locations, including manufacturing plants, Centers of Excellence, and a commercial office. The company is dedicated to sustainability, community empowerment, and leveraging technology expertise to drive positive change.
The Application Development specialist for the Packaging & Specialty Plastics Business will work towards the development and implementation of innovative packaging solutions. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive product development, enhance customer satisfaction, and support business growth.
Are you customer-focused but also have a heart for research? Are you passionate about developing new products that satisfy our customers’ needs? Could you imagine yourself working in an international and dynamic environment, where customer experience is centric/key in everything you do? Then we are looking for you! Dow has an exciting opportunity for Application Development specialist. In this role you will apply in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in discipline to support customer needs by leading the development of new applications and by providing technical knowledge on the use, handling and management of Dow products.
Responsibilities
- Uses broad market, customer, and application knowledge and in-depth understanding of competitive technologies to solve complex technical issues. Convinces others about differentiated technical solutions and articulates synergies between technologies to maximize value effectively- understands how business value is created for Dow and the customer.
- Works closely with customer in the region to implement innovation pipeline, supporting trials at accounts. Applies and uses project methodologies in a manner that is considered exemplary.
- Participates in the development and implementation of strategy for a business or platform and fully participates in the development of technology maps for projects and leads area of IP development.
- Identifying opportunities and how to understand and articulate value of Dow technologies in different applications. Delivers presentations or reports that distill complex ideas into clear results and proposals; communicates appropriately to influence internal and external audiences.
- Serves as principal author on papers and presentations and presents at industry conferences. Manages the technical project pipeline for a business within a geography and translates competitive knowledge to useful insights for internal stakeholders and works closely with marketing to proactively lead effort to identifying new high-value opportunity spaces with internal and external stakeholders.
- Provides effective service to numerous strategic accounts for the business, responds to technical questions of customers and other Dow/market-facing businesses. Monitors the competition and market trends relative to Dow intellectual capital positions and integrates the information into group activities and projects.
Qualifications
- PhD/master's degree in Polymer Science, Rubber or Plastics Engineering. PhD preferred.
- You are an excellent communicator! English is compulsory and other languages are a plus.
- Some prior Work Experience or Industrial Training would be an added advantage
- You are dependable and responsible; you collaborate well in a team environment, but you are also capable of working with minimal supervision.
- You are driven by technology and innovation, a critical thinker with a drive for change.
- The Job involves 30-40% of travelling within India Subcontinent.
- The work location will be Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Preferred Skills
- Ability to think creatively and develop innovative solutions to complex problems.
- Strong customer orientation with a track record of building and maintaining customer relationships.
- Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to inspire and motivate a team.
- Proficiency in using software tools and technologies relevant to application development and project management.
If you are passionate about driving innovation in the packaging and specialty plastics industry and have the skills and experience required for this role, we encourage you to apply and join our dynamic team at Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd.
Benefits – What Dow offers you
We invest in you.
Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent, and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.
Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:
- Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
- Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
- Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
- Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
- Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees’ Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
- Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
- Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
- Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
- Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
- Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
- Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
- Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.
- Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
- On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
- Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
- Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
- Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
- Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
- Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)
Join our team, we can make a difference together.
About Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd
Dow Chemical International Private Limited (Dow India) aims to be the most innovative, sustainable, inclusive customer-centric materials science company. The company is committed to delivering the right solutions to its customers’ challenges. With broadest technology sets spanning performance materials, industrial intermediates, and plastics Dow India delivers differentiated science-based products and solutions in high-growth segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, automobile, and consumer care.
A Great Place to Work® Certified company with approximately over 1000 employees, its operations comprise of manufacturing sites, innovation center, established centers of excellence, and commercial office. As a responsible corporate, the company supports its Corporate Social Responsibility (program) with technology expertise and employee volunteerism. Dow India works with non-profit partners towards the empowerment of differently abled, women, and children in communities where it operates. The company aims to redefine the societal blueprint, by supporting holistic sustainability and circular economy initiatives.
As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.
