Manager - Chemicals (m/f/d)
In Germany - Berlin | Bonn | Cologne | Frankfurt/Main | Hamburg | Munich
As a Manager (m/f/d) in our Chemicals practice,
you will help leading chemical and materials companies navigate some of their
most important commercial and strategic questions: where to grow, how to win
and defend attractive profit pools, and how to translate strategy into
commercial execution.
You will work at the intersection of commercial
strategy, pricing, sales and commercial transformation. Typical questions
range from validating growth and specialty strategies, shaping differentiated
commercial models for commodity and specialty businesses, and accelerating
commercialization, to redesigning route-to-market, commercial operating models
and performance steering.
You will lead project teams, work directly
with senior executives, and combine rigorous analysis with pragmatic
implementation to create measurable revenue and profit impact.
What makes us special:- Advance your career with exciting professional opportunities in our thriving company with a startup feel
- Add to your experience with our projects that focus on growth, have a positive impact, and truly matter
- Voice your unique ideas in a corporate culture defined by our entrepreneurial spirit, openness, and integrity
- Feel at home working with our helpful, enthusiastic colleagues who have great team spirit
- Broaden your perspective with our extensive training curriculum and learning programs (e.g. LinkedIn Learning)
- Speak your mind in our holistic feedback and development processes (e.g. 360-degree feedback)
- Satisfy your need for adventure with our opportunities to live and work abroad in one of our many international offices
- Enjoy our benefits, such as hybrid working, daycare allowance, corporate discounts, and wellbeing support (e.g. Headspace)
- Unwind in our break areas where you can help yourself to the healthy snacks and beverages provided
- See another side of your coworkers at our frequent employee events and highly anticipated World Meeting and Holiday Party
How you will create an impact:
- Lead end-to-end consulting engagements for chemical and materials
companies, from strategic hypothesis development and commercial validation
through design and implementation
- Help clients identify where and how to win, translating
market, customer and competitor insights into clear growth priorities and
commercially robust strategies
- Challenge growth strategies through explicit sources of growth,
right-to-win, price-volume economics and value-capture logic
- Develop differentiated commercial approaches for commodity,
moderately differentiated, specialty and solution businesses,
recognizing that different business models require different pricing,
sales, contracting and steering models
- Design and implement commercial strategies, route-to-market
models and commercial operating models, including customer
segmentation, channel strategy, governance, decision rights, KPIs and
organizational interfaces
- Accelerate commercialization and application-led growth,
helping clients convert innovation and technical capabilities into
customer adoption and profitable growth
- Improve commercial performance through pricing, customer and
portfolio steering, share-of-wallet development, key account management,
contracting and Sales Excellence
- Help clients adapt to structural changes in the chemicals industry,
including changing value chains, regionalization, circularity and
sustainability, new sources of competitive advantage and increasing
pressure on European assets
- Work directly with senior management and C-level executives,
facilitate management discussions and translate complex analysis into
clear decisions and actionable recommendations
- Manage and develop project teams, providing clear problem solving,
coaching and feedback while ensuring high-quality delivery
- Contribute to business development by developing client
relationships, identifying relevant strategic questions and shaping
compelling project approaches
- Advance Simon-Kucher’s Chemicals expertise through new
perspectives, methodologies and thought leadership on profitable growth
and commercial transformation
About
you:- You hold a university degree in Business, Economics, Engineering,
Chemistry, Natural Sciences or another relevant field
- You bring at least four years of relevant professional experience
in strategy consulting, a specialized consultancy, in-house consulting or
a commercial role in chemicals, materials or a related B2B industry
- You have a strong interest in how chemical and materials businesses
create and capture value; prior chemicals experience is highly desirable
but deep curiosity and the ability to learn complex industries quickly are
equally important
- You are comfortable addressing questions that combine strategy and
execution – from market attractiveness and competitive positioning to
pricing, sales, organization and performance management
- You can structure ambiguous problems, formulate hypotheses, work
confidently with quantitative and qualitative evidence, and translate
insights into clear management recommendations
- You understand that commercial models differ across commodity,
specialty and solution businesses and can think beyond generic Commercial
Excellence playbooks
- You have successfully led workstreams or projects and can manage
multiple stakeholders while maintaining analytical depth and delivery
quality
- You enjoy working with senior executives, can challenge
constructively and communicate complex topics clearly and concisely
- You combine intellectual curiosity with pragmatism: you want to
understand why a strategy should work and what it takes to make it work in
the market
- You have initial experience leading and coaching colleagues and
enjoy developing high-performing teams
- You are entrepreneurial, client-focused and interested in
contributing to the continued development of our Chemicals practice
- You are fluent in German and English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
Have we sparked your interest? Simply click the 'Apply now' button to
submit your application. Please note that, for data protection reasons, we
cannot accept applications via email.
Would you like to learn more about us and our company culture? Click here to watch our recruitment video.
About Simon-Kucher
Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,200 employees in
30+ countries.
Our sole focus is on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and
profit for our clients. We achieve this by optimizing every lever of their
commercial strategy – product, price, innovation, marketing, and sales – based
on deep insights into what customers want and value. With 40 years of
experience in monetization topics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world’s
leading pricing and growth specialist. simon-kucher.com
We believe in building a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and
inclusion, creating an environment in which our people feel valued, are able to
be themselves and feel their contribution matters. If we get that right,
remarkable things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valued,
and create better outcomes for everyone – our people, our clients and, of
course, our business.
Your personal contact:
Charlotte Sever
recruitment.germany(at)simon-kucher.com
Please submit your
application exclusively via the “Apply
now” button!
Better growth starts here. With you.
