Japan Senior Technical Service Scientist

About Lubrizol  
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.   

PURPOSE:

• Provide efficient and effective technical services to customers in Japan.
• Technical lead on application development projects with top customers to support the business growth.
• Self-initiative on new customer projects and be able to balance the priority from all sales request.

RESPONSIBILITIES / ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Work closely with commercial team to prioritize technical resources in top customer projects or high potential new business opportunities and ensure to achieve expected technical deliveries.
• Develop broad application knowledge to cover all the segments to fulfill customer’s requests.
• Work in distributor’s laboratory, perform bench work and develop solutions to solve customer’s technical problems or to meet technical targets on prioritized projects.
• Collaborate with regional application team to implement global/regional application programs.
• Get in-depth understanding of market product, industry trend, and the key technology of popular products, develop application project utilizing Lubrizol solutions to achieve the deliveries.
• Be familiar with competitive products, collect information from the market and conduct comparison study if needed, provide feedback to internal team.
• Build up strong connections with other regional technical teams to exchange the experiences and the best practice for accelerating the projects development.
• Provide technical training to both customers and sales partner based on needs.
• Build-up connections to the personal and home care industry to enforce Lubrizol’s impact.

REQUIRMENTS – EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS:

• Master degree or above majoring in chemistry, polymer or related subjects having more than 7 years of experiences in the industry.
• Bachelor degree with over 10 year of technical experiences in the same or similar areas. 
• Strong personal care formulation knowledge and skills.
• Good problem-solving skills, ability to work independently
• Good listening and communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work with people at different levels
• Strong desire to acquire new technical knowledge, strong intention to learn new things and perform
• Conversant with MS Office application software.
• Be versatile to adapt various cultures.
• Fluent English in written and speaking.
• Be adapt around 30% of time of travelling.

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As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. 

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