Title:  Application Development Specialist - Beauty and Personal Care

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Start your career journey with Univar Solutions!  Here you can make an impact on the world around you and accelerate your career in areas that energize and excite you. 

Take your technical and commercial experience and apply it to a new challenge! Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

As an Application Development Specialist (ADS), you will provide technical services to Beauty and Personal Care industry customers to grow sales. The ADS will promote a distinction between Univar Solutions and our competitors by using a technical consultative approach to needs-based evaluations of the technology customers apply.

The ADS builds profitable sales, employing a consultative approach. Develops and maintains a long-term partnership with customers by using industry expertise. Uses Univar resources to provide solutions to customer needs and captures market intelligence.

What you’ll do

Internal Activities:

• Provide product and industry training to all Sales and Sales support teams.

• Assist with Supplier/Customer contract negotiations.

• Support all aspects of developing business opportunities, targets, and prospecting.

• Participate in tradeshows (national & local), industry conferences/meetings, website info, and literature development.

Customer Activities:

• Assist customers with application/formulation support. Provide technical support at all levels of the customer chain.

• Coordinate supplier meetings with key/target customers.

• Assist in business development, developing technical proposals and generating product/service application solutions.

• Identify new service/product opportunities by supervising market changes and customer needs.

Supplier Activities:

• Lead communication with supplier technical recourses.

• Collaborates on products and service solutions.

• Assist with new product launches.

• Assist in the qualifications of potential new suppliers/products.

What you’ll need

• Bachelor's degree (technical or Chemistry degree is preferred).

• Proven technical knowledge in the Beauty and Personal Care (raw chemicals) industry.

• Successful experience (five years minimum) with technical product and formulation knowledge.

• Experience servicing customers at multiple levels, both internal and external, and supplier partners.

• Proficient in the use of MS Office including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

• Strong communication skills, both oral and written, are vital to communicating effectively inside and outside the organization.

• Ability to travel (50%).

Where you'll work

This is a home-based opportunity. The covered territory is California. Candidates located in the Los Angeles, CA area are preferred.

Pay and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $102,100 - $153,100. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s relevant experience, education, training, certifications, qualifications, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for incentive pay. Available employee benefits include health, vision, and dental.  We also provide 401k matching for retirement and paid time off.

Univar Solutions is a leading, global distributor of chemicals and ingredients essential to the safety, health, and well-being of our daily lives from life-saving medicines and vitamins to hand sanitizers and industrial materials used for cleaning, construction, and more.  Our team of more than 10,000 employees supports our vision to redefine distribution and be the most valued chemical and ingredient distributor in the world!

We offer a Total Rewards package that includes market-aligned pay and incentives as well as a diverse benefit offering to support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.

Univar Solutions supports sustainable solutions for the world around us so that we can do our part to help keep our communities healthy, fed, clean, and safe! 

We are committed to a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion.  Together, we are building a culture that acknowledges the unique experiences, perspectives and expertise of individuals and provides the development and growth opportunities to empower us to redefine our industry. 

Univar Solutions is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected classification.

Univar Solutions does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or staffing firms (collectively Recruiting Firms). Recruiting Firms must enter into a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with Univar Solutions prior to submitting any information relating to a potential candidate. All searches must be initiated by Univar Solutions' Talent Acquisition team and candidates must be submitted via Applicant Tracking System (ATS) by approved vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless the aforementioned conditions have been met. Contacting our hiring managers directly is prohibited.