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His/her main responsibility is to own and drive new product development projects with fast growing market areas such as medical, industry & consumer, automotive and more. He or she will also provide technology recommendations and guidance to other teams within Celanese such as the business management, stewardship, manufacturing, quality and others to achieve business goals and to make business decisions.\nThis role will be on-site in the Florence, Kentucky location.\nResponsibilities\nProduct Innovation: Formulate, test, and optimize to develop new product generating technology value (e.g. intellectual property, technical competitive advantage) and business value (e.g. revenue from new products in existing and/or new markets)\nCommercialization: Manage new product development (NPD) processes from lab-scale formulation through twin-screw compounding scale-up and customer qualification.\nCross-functional Collaboration: Align technical objectives with business management, manufacturing, sales, quality, regulatory teams and more\nTechnical Sales Support: Provide deep technical knowledge on material selection and part/mold design to OEMs, tiers, and 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