Senior Technical Expert - Decorative Coatings Americas

About the role

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Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary senior technical expert and customer contact for Decorative Coatings applications in North America, with emphasis on Pigment Concentrates, Wood Coatings, and Flooring.
• Provide high-level technical service and application support through customer visits, virtual engagements, conferences, trade shows, webinars, and technical presentations.
• Identify customer needs, technical service opportunities, and application challenges, translating them into effective technical solutions and development initiatives and projects.
• Lead application testing, product benchmarking, and technical evaluations to demonstrate product performance, value, and competitive differentiation.
• Drive new product process development projects in collaboration with RD&I, regional ART teams, Market Segments, Product Lines, scientists, and laboratory personnel.
• Define and supervise experimental work supporting product development, validate results, contribute to intellectual property activities, and pursue patent applications when appropriate.
• Monitor market trends, competitive activity, customer requirements, and emerging technologies to identify innovation opportunities and develop Decorative Coatings