FutureFuel Chemical Company is currently seeking a Chemical Sales Executive with a background in Pharmaceuticals to join our team and support the growth of our specialty pharma chemical manufacturing business. The Pharma Chemical Sales Account Manager will have responsibility for growing our pharma manufacturing business at key multinational customers, in addition to developing new opportunities in current performance chemical markets. Our Sales Executives are expected to understand our chemistries and the capabilities of our manufacturing plant. They work with our development chemists and engineers to secure product opportunities that maximize our manufacturing talents and skills. Our business is different. We market exceptional manufacturing capabilities for toll manufacturing and specialty chemical development. FutureFuel specializes in chlorination's, bromination's, esterification's, acylation's, alkylation's, sulfonations, and reactive distillations. We make great things happen for our customers by responsibly and successfully producing difficult chemistries.

• Developing and growing new business at key multinational customers
• Generating new sales opportunities by securing profitable prospect accounts in target markets
• Maintaining positive customer relations
• Developing and implementing annual strategic and key account plans
• Providing account, business intelligence and competitive activity information
• Developing and negotiate commercial agreements
• Providing market analysis and pricing recommendations
• Providing accurate and timely sales forecasts and budgets
• Anticipated travel 40%-50%

• Disciplined, self-motivated with strong time management skills
• Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiating skills
• Fact-based and relationship selling skills
• Financial analysis/management skills
• Strategic understanding of business operations
• Demonstrated ability to gather market intelligence

• 8+ years of direct field sales or business development experience in chemical product sales with a special focus on the pharmaceutical market
• BS in a science related field (Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related technical field of science) or applicable chemical sales expertise

FutureFuel Chemical Company (FFCC) is a specialty and fine chemical manufacturing producer with an over forty-year successful plant history. FFCC has three business segments: custom/toll manufacturing, performance chemicals, and biodiesel. FFCC serves a wide variety of markets including pharmaceutical intermediates and products, nylon and polyester fibers, cleaning products, agricultural products, paints and coating, and fuels and energy.

FFCC is a small publicly traded company with approximately 500 employees that has a rich history of complex organic chemistry innovation, excellent environmental stewardship, and excellent health and safety compliance. We are a growing U.S. manufacturer of specialty organic chemicals and premium biofuels. Our company is headquartered in Clayton, St Louis and publicly listed on the NYSE under "FF". We have a world class integrated biofuels and specialty chemicals manufacturing facility in Batesville, Arkansas. 

Batesville, Arkansas is a small rural town of about 10,000 on the foothills of the Ozark Mountains with excellent area schools, a University of Arkansas 2-year college and Lyon College, a highly rated Liberal Arts College. We are a strong outdoor community with the White River, nearby lakes, parks, bike trails, dog park, walking trails, excellent soccer and baseball/softball facilities, a thriving community and aquatics center and Historic Main Street, and close access to Blanchard Springs Caverns, The Ozark Folk Center, and the Buffalo River, one of the longest undammed rivers west of the Mississippi and the nation’s first National River designated by Congress in 1972 to preserve its clean water and other outstanding values. Batesville has a regional health care center, Community Theatre and Arts Council, a strong Chamber of Commerce, Mark Martin NASCAR Museum, and a regional historic museum. Visit Batesville at cityofbatesville.com.