IT Graduate-Harlow

Synthomer is an innovative and differentiated global leader in sustainable polymer solutions. The Group is one of the world’s foremost suppliers of water based polymers and has leadership positions in many markets. Our polymers help customers create innovative new products and enhance the performance of existing products in key industries such as coatings, construction, adhesives, textiles, paper and nitrile medical gloves.

With the acquisition of Eastman Adhesive Resins in 2022 and Omnova Solutions in 2020, Synthomer grew its global manufacturing network, expanded its product portfolio and boosted its geographical presence, allowing it to better serve over 6000 customers around the world.

At Synthomer you are part of a truly global team, open for new ideas and different cultures. Our Graduate Leadership Programme offers an exciting career accelerator: It’s a structured development journey of two years, based on several rotational assignments which allow you to contribute to the Synthomer strategy from day one. During the programme you will be supported through learning events, mentoring and personal development planning, as well as support key commercial projects within Group IT.

Purpose Of Role

The primary purpose of the IT Graduate role is to add value to our operations through the application of business process insights. The role involves developing an advanced understanding in a particular process and related system/application(s), developing or improving the related documentation for users and/or IT support teams.

Main Accountabilities

• Collaborate with various departments, such as finance, commercial, operations, IT, supply chain, etc, to ensure a good understanding of a process and/or system design as well as referencing external best practices from a variety of sources.
• Identify business needs, through conversations, research and analysis, and determining process and/or system solutions to business problems.
• Play a key role in facilitating communication between stakeholders and ensuring that business requirements are clearly understood and prioritised.
• Analysing data to inform business decisions and improve processes, as well as designing appropriate business controls, compliance metrics and/or Process Performance Indicators as required.
• Provide clear, accurate documentation (in English) as appropriate for end-users, managers and technical support staff
• Project Management, including definition, planning, scheduling, delivery reporting, risk & issue resolution and close
• Lead data analysis to support data migration or similar specialist tasks
• Responsible for some aspects of application development (DevOps) or solution configuration

Skills Required

• Analytical Skills: The ability to analyse data to inform business decisions and improve processes.
• Communication Skills: Facilitating communication between stakeholders and ensuring that business requirements are clearly understood and prioritized.
• Technical Skills: Capability to develop an advanced understanding of a particular process and related system/application(s) within a short timeframe
• IT Skills: Strong M365 Office skills (Word, PowerPoint and Excel) and some extended application knowledge (e.g. SharePoint, Teams Forms, Planner, etc.) are expected. Advanced Excel (esp. PowerQuery) and basic knowledge in Power Automate and/or Power Apps and/or intermediate skills in PowerBI would be an advantage
• Project Skills: Foundation skills in Project Management, ideally with a recognised Project Management qualification, would be an advantage
• Collaboration Skills: Working with various departments such as finance, commercial, operations, IT, supply chain, etc., to ensure a good understanding of the process and/or system design
• Problem-Solving Skills: Capability to identify business needs, research best practices and propose relevant solutions to business problems
• Data Modelling and Analysis: Capability to understand current and target business data structures and use data modelling and analysis techniques to support data cleanse & migration from old to new data models
• Critical Thinking: Challenging constructively and acting as a critical friend to achieve solutions that are fit for purpose
• Presentation Skills: Formulating and presenting options to improve business process performance based on previous research

At Synthomer we value the difference everyone brings to work and we are committed to create a diverse and inclusive workplace, where people are supported to make their best contribution in creating a vibrant and successful business”

Why Synthomer?

We are ambitious!

We have grown significantly – both organically and inorganically. We are a FTSE 250 listed company, 22% of our revenue comes from newly commercialized products, and we’re recognized in the top-quartile for chemicals manufacturing safety.

We believe in high challenge, high support!

We are keen to let you contribute in real roles from day 1. We expect a lot, but offer a lot, too. This includes onboarding, induction and learning events, networking opportunities, mentoring and personal development planning. So, be up for an inspiring long-term career adventure.

We personalize our approach to development!

At Synthomer, you won’t find generic career tracks or development programs but rather a one-size-fits-one approach to employee development. We’ll partner with you to ensure you have the right experiences that build your capabilities and accelerate your career growth.