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Business Leadership Rotational Program

Job in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, 49528, USA
Listing for: Americhem
Full Time position
Listed on 2025-11-20
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 150000 - 200000 USD Yearly USD 150000.00 200000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Business Leadership Rotational Program Overview

Americhem’s Business Leadership Rotational Program is designed to give early in‑career professionals meaningful work experience aligned with career aspirations. Participants actively contribute to team success, learn about Americhem culture, and gain new skills through strategic learning opportunities and professional assignments.

Selected participants complete a two‑year program with eight‑month rotations in Product Management, Design & Product Development, and Commercial Sales/Technical Service. After successful completion, participants are deployed into a manufacturing role based on demonstrated skills, preferences, and organizational needs. The program provides formal and informal skill development, networking, and internal & external customer interface, ultimately exposing participants to product development, product management, and commercial sales to advance within Americhem.

Potential career paths include plant leadership, process engineering, quality management, and continuous improvement.

Rotations Design & Product Development

The position delivers and leads projects in Design & Product Development.

Experience Acquired:
  • Hands‑on exposure to quality testing, color manipulation, physical testing, and sample preparation.
  • Experience with formulations for palette development projects.
  • Plant trial activity and process experience.
  • Regulatory and raw material sciences & SCM activities.
  • Analytical lab activities.
  • Six Sigma DFSS methodologies.
  • Sales target achievement.
  • Travel: up to 25% domestic.
Product Management

The position delivers and leads projects in Product Management.

Experience Acquired:
  • Operational management exposure:
    • Lead market intelligence gathering.
    • Maintain formula prices.
    • Provide market guidance to sales.
  • Strategic product decisions exposure:
    • Manage asset utilization.
    • Inform product portfolio decisions.
    • Inform long‑term asset strategy.
  • Business compliance and risk management.
Commercial Sales & Technical Service

The position delivers and leads projects in Commercial Sales & Technical Service.

Experience Acquired:
  • Learn and apply the sales process with customers in one commercial segment:
    • Build relationships.
    • Questioning development.
    • Develop economic value estimates.
    • Recommend solutions.
    • Deliver business reviews to achieve account growth.
Minimum Qualifications
  • 4‑year bachelor’s degree in a related science (Chemical Engineering plus).
  • Minimum 3.0 GPA.
  • Master’s in Polymer Engineering a plus.
  • Ability and desire to travel (up to 25% domestic and international travel required).
  • Must be able to relocate at the end of the last rotation.
Skills Requirements
  • Eager to learn and grow.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills (active listening).
  • Ability to build productive relationships.
  • Results‑oriented.
  • Project management and leadership.
  • Solid polymers technical background and understanding.
  • Ability to understand and follow procedures and quality systems.
  • Attention to detail and analysis skills.
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