Innovation Leader

Serves as a technical expert to internal and external stakeholders, including customers and sales and marketing professionals. Provides technical support in the development and application of new products. Contributes technical expertise toward the development of sales and marketing materials.

Provides technical expertise to customers in the areas of product development and application, processing techniques and problem resolution. Serves as a technical expert to sales professionals, distributors, customers and other internal/external partners. Helps translate product data into effective sales and marketing tools. Assists with regulatory and environmental product issues, product improvements, positioning of existing product offerings and new business product developments.

Requirements

• Applies specialized professional knowledge about theoretical concepts and principles within own field; is a sought after thought partner.
• Acts as advisor to unit or sub-units and may become actively involved, as required, to meet schedules and resolve problems.
• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate the business/processes in the market.
• Guides and prioritizes the activities of individual contributors accountable for similar responsibilities and performing moderately diverse activities.
• Works independently and receives minimal guidance; contributes to and executes business, functional or product strategies.
• Impact of work reflects directly on the overall team for quality of process execution and responsiveness to business needs.
• Operates with latitude for action and decision-making; uses judgment to make decisions that affect own area of responsibility within the business/function.
• Solves technical or operational problems (with or without vague/unstructured aspects); takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information