Technical Market Development Specialist

We seek to employ a Technical Market Development Specialist (Technical Marketing) to be responsible for interaction with customers (steel mills) and the supply chain of niobium-containing products, including a variety of industries around the world. This is a technical role which involves technical assistance, projects management with coordination and budget planning. Intensive route of international trips is demanded.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

TECHNICAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST

Responsibilities

• Providing technical support to steel mills, potential new customers and, intermediate and end-users of steel, with the objective of solving problems, improving quality, reducing costs, improving productivity and production stability, or developing the production of a specific product.

• Providing structural steels projects coordination, and budget planning

• Research scenario, identifying market necessities and potentials.

• Building knowledge of customers and informing them on market demand, market trends and the demands for technology.

• Coordinate technical projects and technology developments involving companies, universities, research centers/institutions and customers.

• Niobium technology management (monitoring, transfer, implementation, development, dissemination, promotion, documentation, and generation).

• Intensive routine of business trips mainly to emerging countries such as India and SEA to interact with the steel mills, among other countries too.

Requirements:

• This is a technology focused role which would require a background education and solid experience in the specific area of flat steel products. It also requires communication and personal skills for an international role with direct interaction with customers and partners.

• The candidate is required to be a Materials/Metallurgy/Industrial/Mechanical engineer.

• Postgraduation (Masters) in Materials Engineering, Materials Science or Metallurgy is highly appreciated.

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience working in steel mills with good knowledge of steel products and production processes (steelmaking, continuous casting, hot rolling, finishing/conditioning, welding, and heat treatments).

• Experience and knowledge on steel characterization, including microstructure analysis, mechanical testing, and interpretation of results. Solid experience interacting with shop floor steel production (rolling mill).

• Specific understanding of the role of Niobium in micro alloyed steels and experience with Niobium, Titanium, and Vanadium micro alloyed steels are very positive differentials.

• The candidate is expected to be fluent in English language and exhibit a very well-developed set of communication skills.

Qualifications:

• Engineering with any of those backgrounds: Materials, Metallurgy, Production, Mechanical.

• Master’s degree in Materials Engineering, Materials Science or Metallurgy is highly appreciated.

Competencies:

• Fluency in English

• Project management skills

• Results oriented.

• Ability to develop working relationships with people from different backgrounds (customers, salespeople, production shop operators, industry leaders)

• Ability to implement action plans with customers, to follow up the actions, and to identify the divergences and propose countermeasures to keep the plan on track.