COMPANY PROFILE

Tokyo Chemical Industry, Co., Ltd. (TCI) is a leading worldwide manufacturer of organic chemicals.  The company offers over 26,000 organic laboratory reagents as well as offers custom synthesis.  More than 8,000 of the company's catalog products are unique to TCI.  The company continues to expand globally, and currently has divisions in North America, Japan, China, Europe, and India.  TCI America is a division of TCI, and has offices in Cambridge Massachusetts, Portland, Oregon and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

SUMMARY

We are seeking a materials science / chemistry expert to support our academic collaboration and new product development program.  The successful candidate should be a materials science chemist, preferably with 5 years of organic synthesis research experience.  The candidate will be required to have a broad understanding of TCI products and the reagent chemical industry overall with one year of hire.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contact researchers who are doing academic research in universities.
• Build good relationships with academic researchers in the U.S.  This will require a two-way collaboration - not only gaining ideas but also offering information about TCI products and techniques to develop business.
• Work with Marketing Department to identify and market academic researchers focusing on important and  'hot' categories especially in the U.S. market.
• Manage the full process for the products commercialization