Commercial Director

Nottingham, United Kingdom Posted on 12/06/2025

Attitudes to climate change are driving more action to implement decarbonisation solutions.

Promethean, through its use of Continuous Flow Hydrothermal Synthesis (CFHS) and patented reactor systems, is delivering the materials and technology to meet these demands via MOF-based carbon capture.

This is your opportunity to help change the world by leadingthe commercial success of a pioneering materials company revolutionising carboncapture and other energy-intensive applications.

Against the backdrop of critical global issues like climatechange and natural resource shortages, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have thepotential to deliver a paradigm shift in applications like carbon capture,water harvesting, biogas upgrading, and gas storage.

But MOFs have always been held back by high costs anddifficulty of manufacturing at large scale.

Our proprietary and patented process finally delivers thecost-effective, industrial scale MOFs that real world engineering applicationssuch as carbon capture demand.

Having recently secured significant new funding, we'relooking for an experienced commercial leader with deep engineering expertisewho knows how to develop commercial strategies that deliver impactful resultsin emerging markets.

The Role

In this role you will be responsible for shaping,developing, and leading our commercial engine including business andapplication development, strategic marketing, and communications. You will beresponsible for maximising our commercial growth, and helping successfullydeliver key milestones.

In addition to leading the commercial team, you will bepersonally responsible for delivering progress for the Company's focusapplication - MOF-based carbon capture. As an advanced materials company oursuccess is predicated on working with end users and engineering partners tohelp scale a solution that our materials can be sold into. You will help shapeour commercial approaches to this technically complex landscape.

This is your opportunity to use all your commercial skillsand technical engineering expertise to shape the direction of a high-growthbusiness. As we embark on this journey, you'll have a profound influence onshaping our success and the freedom to drive meaningful change in ways onlypossible at an agile, innovative company.

Key Areas of Responsibility

The successful candidate should be excited at the prospectof leading the development of a high performing commercial team and playing acentral role in Promethean's mission to unleash the power of MOFs in engineeredapplications.

As someone who leads from the front and by example, you willensure that the necessary plans are in place to help the team be as effectiveas possible in growing our opportunity pipeline, helping advance our technicaldevelopment through customer proof points, and ultimately increasing therevenue performance of the Company.

• Keymember of the company's executive team, helping set, shape, and deliverthe company's strategy, mission and vision.
  
• Lead,develop, and mentor the company's marketing, product management, businessand application development, and communications staff to ensure thecompany achieves its growth goals and the team continues to developprofessionally.
  
• Develop,plan, and implement tactics that align with business goals to promotegrowth across relevant applications.
  
• Ensurewe have a solid foundation of market intimacy and understanding to informbusiness planning on commercial opportunities in engineering applicationsand identify unmet needs in the emerging target segments.
  
• Managethe growth of the opportunity pipeline by identifying new opportunitieswith engineering development partners and large-scale contractors,progressing existing opportunities through the sales cycle.
  
• Workwith engineering customers and prospects to communicate the benefits ofMOFs in target applications, speaking to engineers in a language theyunderstand and helping customers along their product specificationjourney.
  
• Supportnegotiation of product development agreements with engineering partners.
  
• Representthe company at the highest level in industry forums and with keystakeholders.
  
• Workto understand relevant market sizing, value chain dynamics, competitiveintelligence, and policy trends to create an effective growth plan.
  

• Qualified Chemical, Mechanical Engineer, or Materials Scientist with minimum 10years' experience including B2B business development and commercialleadership
  
• Anunderstanding/knowledge of MOFs and their potential applications would bean advantage.
  
• Provenexperience in taking new technologies to engineering development partners
  
• Wellnetworked across international contractors in water, waste, and energysectors with a solid understanding of the different engineering,procurement and construction phases and contracts, e.g., FEED, EPCM,EPC/turnkey, etc.
  
• Inspirationalleadership skills and a track record in building effective,high-performing teams at director level
  
• Mustbe articulate and able to represent the company at the highest level
  
• Commerciallystrong with experience supporting negotiation of complex agreements
  
• Strategicthinking capabilities with ability to work with executive team to maproute to growing MOF demand.
  
• Competencein managing early phase sales growth involving systematic approaches toreducing technical and commercial risk.
  
• Experiencein developing and managing an opportunity pipeline, leading the conversionof leads into opportunities and commercial success.
  
• Ideallyhave experience of working in a VC/PE backed business.
  
• Fluentin written and oral English.
  
• A right to work in the UK without restriction,as this role does not come with visa sponsorship.
  

Our evolving total compensationphilosophy is designed around performance-based remuneration - competitive basepay, variable pay that rewards both individual and company performance, andcomprehensive benefits that currently include:

• Private medical insurance(with vision and dental provisions)
  
• Company matched pension
  
• Company sick pay
  
• Flexible approach to workinghours
  
• Promethean also providesboth formal and informal learning opportunities within a diverse,inclusive, and rewarding work environment.
  
• We offer the chance to workwithin a small yet growing agile company and directly and visiblycontribute to its growth and success.
  
• A unique opportunity to helpthe planet and its people through the successful deployment of ourpioneering technology.
  

Promethean is committed todiversity in our workforce and providing equal opportunities for employment. Weencourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day, not onlydeliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career.

Ourcommitment

We do not use AI to review yourapplication. We are a small business, and a member of our careers team readsevery CV. We do not require a cover letter, and you don't need to apply tomultiple jobs as we will consider your application against all our vacancies.We endeavour to reply to you within 5 working days.