We are Covestro. We are curious. We are courageous. We are colorful. We refine chemical material solutions with game-changing products. Let us empower you to push boundaries. Join us and our 18.000 colleagues now and together we will make the world a brighter place.
Main tasks and main responsibilities
- Implement the strategy of EE China, dedicated in new business development, define the new business opportunities and settle the key project pipeline by understanding industry opportunities and potential market/ customers.
- To identify & develop target new application/ customers and understand the needs from those new market or customers and translate those needs into insight for internal understanding.
- Play a key role in sourcing and aggregating primary market information. Share insights and knowledge of responsible account within BE to support Sales, Product Management, Marketing, and Innovation to provide the right value proposition, relationship, products, offers, and technology.
- Actively lead the internal related function to work out solution/ offering for those new customers/ applications, and able to build up solid project pipeline and accountable for the sales result generated by new applications/customers.
- Leverage the new offering/value proposition to identify potential target areas such as in existing customers by working with others sales function together.
- Responsible for taking lead to promote new solution to more colleagues and customers, actively participate in planning of new potential areas
- Play champion role to lead to enhance overall EE market development skills
Value added to Covestro
- New product and new technology input
- Concrete market intelligence and competitive information esp. for the unknown areas
- Creating strong sense of urgency for internal department by adjusting market needs. Working relations
Working relations
- External: Strategic Accounts/OEM/ODM (including general management, R&D, and Marketing departments), customer’s industry value chain partners; industry associations.
- Internal: All required functions within EP. Direct reports, peer commercial managers, line manager, SAM and AM / Technical Marketing and Industrial marketing / Application development, product development / Product Management, the Supply Chain Centers / Senior management.
Qualifications
- At least 5 years working experience and 5 years in-depth understanding of new business development or EE business.
- Visionary, able to articulate visions of possibilities /likelihoods and inspire the organization.
- Finds and champions the best creative ideas and actively moves them into implementation.
- Consistently applies business driver and market/customer focus when prioritizing actions.
- Models’ collaboration across the organization. Facilitates an open dialogue with a wide variety of contributors and stakeholders and drive result for common goal.
YOUR APPLICATION
Are you as curious, courageous and colorful as we are? If so, we can offer you an exciting career opportunity. We look forward to receiving your application including a cover letter, resume/CV, and relevant certificates. Become part of our Team - apply now!
Covestro is well aware of the importance of personal information to you. Covestro promises to strictly abide by the basic principles of information security and privacy protection as well as requirements of relevant laws and
regulations and take appropriate security protection measures to ensure that your personal information is safe and controllable.
The resume you submit and the personal information you provide voluntarily will only be used for the recruitment service of Covestro. If we use your information beyond the above purposes, we will seek your consent in advance.
The Covestro position you are applying for may use AI tools for preliminary screening of your submitted resume. We commit that this screening process is free from any bias or discrimination, ensuring fair and just treatment for every applicant. If you accept this approach, please continue with the application process. If you have any objections to the screening results, please send an email to [email protected].
Your data may be kept in a secure environment within or outside the territory of P.R. China. If the personal information is necessary to be transferred outside the territory of P.R. China, we will ensure that it is transferred in accordance with the laws and regulations. Generally, we only store your personal information for the time period that is necessary to fulfill the purpose of collection and processing, unless otherwise provided by laws, regulations or administrative orders. We will implement a variety of measures to ensure a reasonable level of information security. Unfortunately, if a personal information security incident occurs, we will activate contingency plans to prevent the security incident from spreading.
We impose strict restrictions on sharing information with any third party in accordance with laws and regulations. Unless otherwise provided by laws and regulations, the information we collect will not be provided to or shared with any third party that is unrelated to our recruitment services.
Contact Us
www.covestro.com
Covestro welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of racial or ethnic origin, skin color, nationality, religion, philosophy, gender, age, physical characteristics, marital status, disability, appearance, sexual orientation and sexual identity. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.
Skills Required
- Minimum 5 years working experience with in-depth understanding of new business development or EE business
- Proven ability to identify and develop new applications, customers, and market opportunities
- Skill in sourcing and aggregating primary market intelligence and competitive information
- Experience leading cross-functional teams to develop solutions and offerings for new customers
- Track record of building and owning a project pipeline and being accountable for sales results
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills across commercial, technical and senior management
- Visionary mindset with ability to champion creative ideas and drive implementation
- Customer and market-focused decision making when prioritizing actions
Covestro Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Covestro and has not been reviewed or approved by Covestro.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — The company publicly commits to pay equity and a transparent compensation structure, signaling consistency across roles and levels. Competitive pay for manufacturing, engineering, and operations is frequently highlighted alongside solid benefits.
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Retirement Support — U.S. offerings include a 401(k) with company matching and additional retirement contributions, plus an employee stock purchase program. The retirement setup is repeatedly described as especially strong, with examples of automatic contributions and generous matching.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off and holiday observance are standard, complemented by two paid volunteer days in the U.S. Supplemental parental leave and adoption assistance add depth to family support.
Covestro Insights
What We Do
Covestro is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high-quality polymer materials and their components. With its innovative products, processes and methods, the company helps enhance sustainability and the quality of life in many areas. Covestro supplies customers around the world in key industries such as mobility, building and living, as well as the electrical and electronics sector. In addition, polymers from Covestro are also used in sectors such as sports and leisure, cosmetics and health, as well as in the chemical industry itself. The company is committed to becoming fully circular and is striving to become climate neutral by 2035 (scope 1, 2 and 3). Covestro generated sales of EUR 14.4 billion in fiscal 2023. At the end of 2023, the company had 48 production sites worldwide and employed approximately 17,500 people (calculated as full-time equivalents). Data protection information: https://www.covestro.com/en/social-media-privacy-statements
