Chemicals & Materials Executive Roles — Specialty, Commodity, Advanced
More than 16 executive roles classified in Chemicals & Materials, with 0 new this week. R&D, manufacturing, and commercial leadership at specialty and commodity chemicals producers and advanced-materials companies.
Tier breakdown
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Founder1
C-Suite9
VP0
Sr Director6
DirectorWhat this category covers
Chemicals & Materials covers executive roles at specialty chemicals producers, commodity chemicals companies, and advanced-materials firms. R&D, plant operations, and commercial leadership are the dominant tracks.
Across the 16 active roles in this category, the largest tier is VP. The classifier weighs company size, scope, and reporting line — not just the title prefix — so the tier mix reflects real responsibility, not vanity titles.
Sample Jobs (7 of 16)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Water Program Director PQ Seeking a water treatment professional to manage PQ's water program across manufacturing facilities, setting strategy, managing programs and suppliers, and controlling spend. VP | Chester, PA, US Onsite |
| Director - LIMS Strategy - CPG & F&B Veeva Systems Lead the commercial strategy for Veeva's LIMS product line in the Food & Beverage, Consumer Packaged Goods, and Chemical Ingredients industries. Director | United Kingdom - London Remote |
| Director - LIMS Strategy - CPG & F&B Veeva Systems Veeva Systems is hiring a Director of LIMS Strategy to accelerate growth across global accounts in the Food & Beverage, Consumer Packaged Goods, and Chemical Ingredients industries. The role involves architecting and executing commercial strategy for the LIMS product line, acting as a bridge between sales, marketing, product, and services, and developing key messaging and training sales teams. Director | Spain - Barcelona Remote |
| Program Director Johnson & Johnson Lead a strategic capacity expansion program at a chemical synthesis API manufacturing site in Geel, Belgium. Responsible for end-to-end delivery of high-complexity capital investments while ensuring safety, quality, and operational readiness. Director | Geel, Belgium Onsite |
| Plant Controller (Finance) AnalytiChem Group The role involves financial controlling within a manufacturing environment, focusing on cost and profitability across European manufacturing sites. It requires experience in finance controlling, SAP knowledge, and proficiency in English plus German or Dutch. VP | Porto, Portugal Onsite |
| CEO ... Industrial Company CEO position for a medium-sized industrial company in Fortaleza, Ceará, focusing on growth, commercial expansion, and new business development. The role involves leading the company, executing corporate strategy, and ensuring sustainable results. C-Suite | Fortaleza, Ceará Onsite |
| Vice President of Sales – Functional Pigments & Additives for Coatings Management Recruiters of Evergreen The role involves selling functional pigments and additives to large paint and coatings manufacturers in the USA, managing business relationships, and handling accounts such as Sherwin Williams/Valspar, PPG, Akzo, and Axalta. VP | Chicago, Illinois, United States Unknown |
How classification gets to this category
Chemicals & Materials classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other category, with category-specific signal at three stages:
- Title recognition. Direct title hits resolve fast — common variants are recognized immediately, including the senior, VP, and Director-tier flavors.
- Compensation threshold. An exec-tier base-comp floor filters out individual-contributor roles that share the title language. Roles below the floor in unambiguous category titles are flagged for manual review rather than auto-classified.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the JD for plant-network scope, R&D-portfolio authority, and specialty-vs-commodity business mix. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
Negative filters explicitly block adjacent IC and analyst roles whose titles can resemble executive ones. The result: Chemicals & Materials as a category in your inbox is the executive cut, not the entry-level cut.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Chemicals & Materials is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Chemicals & Materials + R&D role type and you see CSOs and VPs of R&D across specialty and advanced-materials companies — your inbox shows the intersection, not the union. You won't see roles that match only one of the filters and not the other.
Tier filtering layers on top. If you only want VP-tier and above in this category, the seniority-tier filter does that cleanly. Restrict further to C-suite only to see the most senior seats, or open it up to Director-tier to widen the funnel during early-stage exploration.
Remote mix