Job Opportunity at ECOLAB

Position Title: Program Leader, RD&E

Background:

Ecolab is the world’s leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services that protect people and vital resources. Ecolab’s products and services touch people every day in nearly every corner of the world. We are dedicated to helping our customers achieve their goals by working together to tackle the world’s most pressing and complex challenges – clean water, safe food, abundant energy and healthy environments.
Innovation is a cornerstone of Ecolab’s growth. As part of our global Research, Development & Engineering team, you will be inspired by our purpose, to make the world cleaner, safer and healthier. Join our team of over 1,600 innovators dedicated to helping our customers meet their goals through innovative and effective science, technology, service and insights. Together, we deploy unlimited resourcefulness to help businesses thrive and ensure the availability of the world’s most precious natural resources for future generations. You will work in a collaborative, customer- focused environment where your voice matters, your contributions are rewarded, and you can make an impact. It’s time your talents took off – join our team and experience more.
Nalco Water, An Ecolab Company, has an opening for program leader. The candidate will be responsible for innovation execution from project definition to commercial launch for water business across industrials within SEA market. The additional role is to closely work with business leader team and global RD&E team to build innovation portfolio for AP PMI &Power division.

Responsibilities:
• Within SEA Market

• Innovation execution from project definition to commercial launch for water business across
  industrials via working with marketing, SC, RA, ITC and global RD&E team
• Planning, Conducting critical lab evaluation and field trial of new technology solutions
• Closely work with business team to drive innovation sales and support new technology deployment
• Closely work with marketing head, strategic business leader, divisional business leader and global team to identify customer needs as well as the development of water innovation pipeline.
• Providing customer facing technical support

• In addition, she or he has the responsibility to closely work with global team to build innovation
portfolio for PMI/Power across AP markets

Qualifications:
• MS or Ph.D. in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering or relevant technical field
• MS with 8+ years and Ph.D. with 5+years Industrial experience, especially in Chem, Steel and Power industry.
• Experience in water treatment related (Cooling, Boiler, membrane or wastewater) is a must.
• Demonstrate strong capability and effective teamwork with cross-functional/regional collaboration.
• Experience in managing innovation project.
• Demonstrate effective execution in innovation deployment upon target
• Excellent writing/verbal communication skill in English.
• Strong business acumen and customer insights.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Clear logic in problem solving from root cause to solution development
• Demonstrate ability to interpret customer needs into technical requirements.
• Good Learning agility with open mind and a team player