Critical Minerals Market and Business Development Leader

As we create a colorful, capable and cleaner world through chemistry, we invite you to join our team to harness the power of chemistry to shape markets, redefine industries and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

Chemours’ Titanium Technologies (TT) business is seeking a Critical Minerals Market Development Manager to join our team. This position will be available at the Corporate Headquarters in Wilmington, DE and will report directly to the Critical Minerals Program Leader. This role will also closely interact with the TT Product and Marketing Team. This role will identify, evaluate and develop emerging growth opportunities in critical minerals and adjacent high-value markets.

This is a high visibility role within the business in which the successful candidate will take a leadership role in driving key responsibilities and deliverables between market needs, customer requirements, technology development, and business priorities. The role works closely with Marketing, R&D, Technology, Operations, Finance, Legal, and external partners to move opportunities from market assessment through commercialization and scalable growth. As an individual contributor, this role will build upon the foundational market understanding by developing business cases, commercial strategies and value chain customer/partner relationships to define where the organization should play and how to win.

• Maintain and consistently pressure-test market plan that includes market sizing, growth rates, supply/demand dynamics, competitive dynamics, value chain mapping, customer needs and regulatory trends.
• Prioritize attractive markets and applications based on validated market needs, TT’s ability to win and financial value .
• Develop market entry, growth and commercialization strategies for priority opportunities.
• Translate market insights into clear recommendations to guide business direction.

• Identify and develop a pipeline of potential growth opportunities from early-stage targets through commercial validation.
• Build relationships with potential customers, partners and other value chain participants.
• Develop differentiated customer value propositions and go-to-market approaches.
• Partner with technical teams to translate capabilities and technologies into commercially attractive solutions.
• Conduct customer discovery to validate market needs, value propositions and commercial models.
• Develop business cases and recommendations to support investment and resource decisions.

• Validation and prioritization of potential opportunities.
• Strong market, customer and competitive intelligence to support strategic decisions.
• Qualified pipeline of validated new business opportunities.
• Strategic customer and value chain partnerships that accelerate learning and growth.
• Successful progression of opportunities from exploration to commercial validation.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, engineering, chemistry, materials science or related field
• 5-8+ years of experience in strategic marketing, business development, commercial strategy/sales or related roles.
• Experience developing new markets, applications or businesses in chemicals, materials, mining/metals or related industrial markets.
• Strong understanding of B2B industrial value chains and complex commercial environments
• Demonstrated ability to build external relationships and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, financial and executive communication skills.
• Demonstrated learning agility, intellectual curiosity, and strategic rigor.
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