Lead, Business Development

The Role: 

Entegris is currently seeking a Business Development Manager to join the Formulated Solutions (FS) team. This position will be remote but will consist of frequent travel to our Aurora Illinois and Fremont California facilities.  

In this role, you will use advanced, wide-ranging experience to resolve complex issues creatively and guide product strategy, roadmaps, and execution. You will advise others on complex matters and use persuasion to align stakeholders across the business to design, develop, and manage activities for a product or product group from definition and planning through production, release, and end of life, serving as a central resource across design, process, manufacturing, test, quality, and marketing. Your work will help translate market and customer needs into product decisions that improve growth, profitability, and customer outcomes. You will be a key driver for maintaining the existing customer base, as well as developing new opportunities in the microchip manufacturing industry for the FS business unit.     

What you’ll do: 

• You will help drive growth of a defined group of key customers  

• You will work on expanding the Entegris portfolio in existing and untapped markets  

• You will work along with the Sales Team to present offerings to our largest customers  

• You will guide the product managers on what strategic direction we choose to take with our offerings  

• You will bridge sales, marketing, and strategic planning by analyzing market trends to secure long-term revenue and strategic partnerships with clients  

• You will be expected to visit customers here and abroad as required by the business unit  

• You will have to set a cadence of internal meetings to execute problem solving solutions for existing problems   

• You will be part of a team to introduce the newest state-of-the-art consumable products for the FAB market 

What we seek: 

• Bachelor’s degree required 

• Typically 8+ years of successful experience in the chemical industry 

• Demonstrated product management capability across lifecycle activities (requirements, roadmap, launch, sustaining). 

• Strong commercial and financial acumen (business cases, pricing, margin drivers, and KPI management). 

• Ability to influence cross-functional teams (engineering, operations, quality, sales, marketing) to drive decisions and execution. 

• A team leader and team player  

• An energetic experienced professional who has a successful history of developing business and growing companies  

• A person who can manage projects from beginning to closure  

• Travel- up to 50% as required by the customer  

• Capable of learning the chemistries for cleaning, polishing, and etching of wafers for micro processing  

• Be able to travel within the USA and outside the USA  

• Know (or has high learning agility) how to use the IT tools we use: Salesforce, PowerBI, Accolades, SAP, Oracle  

• Manage direct and non-direct reports