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Chemicals, Fine Chemicals & New Materials Executive Search

We deliver mission-critical C-suite & technical leaders for global bulk chemical production, high-purity fine chemical synthesis, and functional advanced new materials industrialization businesses.
Chemicals, Fine Chemicals & New Materials

Basic chemicals, fine chemicals and advanced new materials form the upstream foundation of global manufacturing, covering battery raw materials, polymers, industrial additives and semiconductor functional materials. Advanced manufacturing upgrades and strict chemical safety emission rules create shortages of senior technical and leadership talent for synthesis R&D, molecular material development, pilot production and chemical safety management. Traditional recruitment fails to attract top passive chemical and material specialists, slowing mass production conversion and high-end material localization substitution.

FORESTOWN delivers global senior talent consulting for Chemicals, Fine Chemicals & New Materials, serving chemical conglomerates, fine chemical factories, new material developers and international high-performance material suppliers. Our global network of chemical and material science experts provides full-cycle services: vertical chemical talent mapping, process technical evaluation, hazardous chemical compliance audits and full onboarding, accelerating R&D & production team deployment and boosting chemical scenario talent matching precision.

As a credible cross-border industrial material talent partner, we leverage deep chemical chain insights and worldwide industrial resources to help chemical and new material firms build elite R&D, safety and commercial teams and ease widespread high-end chemical & material talent shortages. Our tailored executive talent schemes match clients’ global chemical park layouts and high-value material industrialization roadmaps, supporting safe, eco-friendly and high-end growth of the global chemical and advanced materials ecosystem.

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Industry Landscape

Booming high-end transformation of global Chemicals, Fine Chemicals and New Materials industrial chain

Rapid iteration in electronic fine chemicals, battery functional materials, polymer composites and green low-carbon chemical processes

Intense competition for chemical formula R&D, pilot production engineering, plant safety management and material commercialization executives

Need for leaders with cross-border chemical park governance, special material customer customization and industrial safety policy alignment

Our Expertise

Subsectors We Cover

1. Basic Bulk Chemicals, Inorganic & Organic Industrial Chemical Raw Materials
2. Fine & Specialty Chemicals: Additives, Surfactants, Electronic Chemicals & Dyes
3. New Energy Functional Materials, Battery Materials & Energy Storage Dielectrics
4. Polymer Materials, Composite Materials, High-temperature Resistant Special Materials
5. Semiconductor & Photovoltaic Special Materials, High-purity Electronic Materials
6. Chemical Plant EPC, Environmental Treatment of Chemical Parks & Hazardous Goods Compliance

Key Roles We Place

1. CEO, COO, CTO, CFO, Chief Material Scientist Officer (CMSO), Chief Safety Officer
2. VP of Chemical Formula R&D, Material Molecular Design & Pilot Process Engineering
3. VP of Chemical Plant Operations, Production Process & Industrial Hazard Safety Management
4. VP of Global Raw Material Procurement, Downstream Material BD & Cross-border Cooperation
5. Senior Director of Material Application Testing, Chemical Environmental Compliance & Product Standardization
6. Overseas Chemical Industrial Parks & Cross-border Advanced Material Project Leadership

Our advantage

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74 Countries

FORESTOWN is a professional company of global high-end talent search and enterprise consulting services. It has its own strong knowledge base and global talent knowledge network, and its business covers 74 countries such as America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

5000 + Cooperative Customers

The FORESTOWN serves 5000 customers in 74 countries, and more than 1000 customers have established long-term and stable human resources strategic partnerships to help domestic enterprises introduce overseas talents, and at the same time recommend domestic talents to develop overseas.

10 Working Languages

FORESTOWN consultant team comes from different industries and high cultural backgrounds from all over the world. 45% of professional consultants can work bilingually. The language types involve: Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish 10 languages.

Exclusive Talent Pool

The FORESTOWN exclusively develops and owns the advanced Pipeline management system in China's headhunting industry. So far, it has gathered nearly 10 million people engaged in management, marketing, investment, technology, finance, human resources and other occupations, which are widely distributed in the industry's high-end elites at the level of manager-level director and general manager.

Senior Advisory Team

The FORESTOWN has a number of professional consultants who have delivered more than one million and top experts who have delivered more than ten million. Thousands of hunting cases are successfully completed every year. The consultant team comes from different industries and high cultural backgrounds from all over the world, with bachelor to doctoral degrees.

24 Hour Service

The consultant teams of the three branches of the FORESTOWN can cross time zones, and the three time zones can continuously serve customers 24 hours a day, and fully guarantee the speed and quality of service results.

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Our Executive Search Process

Brief & Industry Analysis

Target Mapping & Talent Intelligence

Assessment & Technical Validation

Shortlist & Stakeholder Alignment

Onboarding & Retention Support

Success Stories

VP of New Material R&D Hire for a Global Fine Chemical Group

VP of New Material R&D Hire for a Global Fine Chemical Group

Client Industry Chemicals, Fine Chemicals & New Materials Challenge Client faced critical gaps in hiring a senior technical executive with deep fine chemical formula development, functional new material pilot test and industrial mass production expertise, with scarce niche cross-disciplinary technical leaders in the raw material industry. Solution We executed a retained, cross-border executive search, leveraging our chemical and new materials industrial C-level network to locate and screen high-calibre passive candidates with full-scale industrial iteration experience. Result Successfully placed the ideal candidate in 6.4 weeks, aligning with the client’s high-performance new material commercialization and green chemical production roadmap, with a retention rate of 100% post-onboarding.

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