Senior Research Scientist

Senior Research Scientist | Personal Care

Professional Summary:

Senior Research Scientist with a strong background in Personal Care ingredients, application development, and customer engagement. Experienced in partnering with strategic customers, identifying market opportunities, and delivering science-based solutions that drive business growth and competitive advantage. Proven ability to lead complex development projects, foster cross-functional collaboration, and bridge customer needs with R&D capabilities. Expertise in formulation science, technical marketing support, customer engagement, and innovation pipeline development across global and regional markets. Highly autonomous and proactive professional with a strong entrepreneurial mindset and proven ability to identify market opportunities, build strategic partnerships, and convert customer needs into innovation and business growth initiatives.

What Will Be Expected From You?

• Serve as a technical expert and trusted advisor for strategic customers within the Personal Care market.
• Drive technical engagement with key accounts, providing scientific expertise, formulation support, and solution-oriented recommendations.
• Establish and maintain strong technical relationships with customers, research institutions, consultants, and industry stakeholders.
• Deliver technical presentations, workshops, and training sessions at customer meetings, industry conferences, and trade shows.
• Lead and support medium- and high-complexity innovation projects, from concept development through commercialization.
• Execute product and application development strategies aligned with business objectives, customer needs, and market trends.
• Evaluate experimental products through physicochemical characterization, performance assessment, and application testing.
• Identify new business opportunities and contribute to innovation pipeline development and growth initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including R&D, Regulatory, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Commercial functions, to ensure successful project execution.
• Generate technical insights and market intelligence to support strategic decision-making and customer engagement.
• Set up and execute laboratories to meet both internal and external customer expectations.
• Develop methods to analyze samples or the applications testing to prove claims.
• Maintain an awareness of the literature and other sources of information to remain current with developments in the area of functional products of interest to the Corporation.
• Keep neat and orderly notebooks containing a record of all work performed. Maintain other records as necessary to support patent applications for innovative products.
• Maintain orderly laboratory space.
• Follow all safety and training requirements.
• Full knowledge of Indorama internal systems including PMOX (the project management system).
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects effectively meet deadlines.
• Manage and optimize all processes under your supervision, taking into consideration Quality, Legality and Food Safety (if applicable) and client needs on Indorama's products and services.
• Guarantee all documentation under your responsibility updated and available for consulting.
• Interact with R&D team to improve the lab, lab methods, etc.
• Able to manage a small team to solve these problems.
• Able to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including R&D, Marketing, Regulatory, Supply Chain, and Commercial functions.

What Are We Looking For In The Ideal Candidate?

• B.S. in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Material Science, Biochemistry, or Polymer Chemistry/Engineering strongly preferred plus 10 years' experience, or
• M.S. in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Material Science, Biochemistry, or Polymer Chemistry/Engineering strongly preferred plus 6 years' experience, or
• Ph. D. in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Material Science, Biochemistry, or Polymer Chemistry/Engineering with 4 years of industrial experience. 1-5 years' experience (more 5 years' experience preferred) in:
• R&D laboratory preferred,
• Surfactants knowledge in laboratory or application uses strongly preferred,
• Market applications specific knowledge required in areas such Personal Care, or home & personal care for scientists in market segment areas Personal Care and Color Cosmetics formulation, including prototype development, formulation optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Excellent organizational and communications skills,
• Strong knowledge of formulation science, application testing, and experimental design,
• Experience in translating customer and market needs into innovative formulations and technical solutions,
• Computer literacy w/ databases, word processing, spreadsheets,
• Demonstrated presentation skills required,
• English with Bilingual Portuguese or Spanish strongly preferred

Core Competencies

• Technical Leadership
• Customer Technical Support
• Strategic Customer Engagement
• Business Development
• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Ownership & Accountability
• Autonomy & Self-Leadership

What Do We Offer?

• A Competitive Compensation Package, Including Health insurance
• WellHub / TotalPass Life insurance
• And other exclusive benefits

The division you'll be joining is a global leader in the chemical industry. We offer a broad portfolio of solutions and high delivery standards to markets such as Crop Solutions, Home and Personal Care, Coatings, Energy & Resources, and Performance Products. Here, you can make a difference. Join us!