Sr R&D Manager

Overview

Solstice Advanced Materials is a global supplier of fluorine products, fine chemicals, additives, high purity metals, films, and fibers for products including refrigeration, semiconductors, data centers, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, and military protection. Advanced Materials is making the world safer, cleaner, and enabling the modernization of a growing middle class by enhancing our customer offerings through a differentiated portfolio of chemistries, materials, value-added solutions, and superior customer service.

Our mission is to attract, retain and develop diverse and highly motivated, entrepreneurial employees striving to flawlessly develop and deliver superior innovative materials solutions that address current and emerging world’s most demanding challenges in sustainability, life sciences and digitization.

The Sr R&D Manager – External Innovation will be responsible for scouting, identifying, and analyzing new technologies. They will be responsible for building relationships with external partners, including start-ups, universities, national labs and innovation ecosystems and collaborate to utilize these technologies to broaden Solstice Advanced Materials innovation capabilities. This person will be working with other teams in the organization including marketing, commercial, legal, Solstice Ventures to accelerate feasibility assessment of emerging technologies for potential fit in Solstice Advanced Materials product portfolio.

This person will also be responsible for building out a robust business process for reviewing technology opportunities and enabling funding decisions by the business.