Business Developer Circular Plastics

As a Business Developer for Circular Plastics, you’ll be responsible for developing and marketing new value propositions. You’ll support companies, industrial clusters, and institutions in the transition from fossil to sustainable materials, using a wide range of technical disciplines and expertise that TNO has at its disposal.

What will be your role?

Your main area of focus will be the design and use of circular plastics. Key issues are: how can we determine the quality of a recycled plastic and use the best possible recyclate? How can the lifetime of plastics in specific applications such as infrastructure and construction be improved, for example by understanding and preventing material degradation? How do microplastics form, and how can their formation be prevented by developing and using the right materials? To answer these questions, we draw on our expertise in materials, materials processing, analysis, and microplastics. Working closely with partners and colleagues, you’ll advise on and develop value propositions, business cases, and a portfolio of research projects so that materials and technologies are effectively applied in the wider European circular and sustainable economy.

You’ll develop propositions, projects, and programmes that focus on the use of circular plastics. The focus is on developing sustainable materials, improving the lifespan of plastics, and reducing the formation of microplastics. This includes business-to-business projects as well as the development of projects within consortia and public-private partnerships. You’ll work with scientists, consultants, and project managers on what the market needs and how to apply innovation. In this way, we join forces to solve challenges faced by society.

You’ll also be involved in expanding TNO’s industry and partner network, and you’ll support management in developing and validating the portfolio of technology propositions.

As a business developer, you’ll work across a broad range of materials, process technology, chemistry, and energy, always in combination with social, techno-economic, and environmental impact considerations and determinations.