Company: ChainCraft

About the job

ChainCraft produces sustainable raw materials (fatty acids) by fermentation of agri-food residue streams. These raw materials can be derivatized into various complex chemicals, which can be used in a variety of markets and applications ranging from cosmetics to animal nutrition. Within the commercial team, we mainly focus on building business for our products in many sectors, ranging from industrial chemicals, human nutrition, animal nutrition, and fertilizers. This requires an extensive understanding of the opportunity of the fatty acids in various markets, which will be the focus of this internship.

This project will include a comprehensive study of the caprylic acid market, including information about applications, volume, drivers and trends, regulatory restrictions a/o opportunities. A large portion of this work should also include a derivative study in which coding in python will be necessary to trawl online databases and output key customers and potential clients for fermentation derived caprylic acid. You will work as part of the Commercial Team, supervised by the Product Manager.

Requirements

  • Studying a MSc in (Organic or Industrial) Chemistry, Biotechnology,
  • Chemical Engineering or similar fields.
  • Experience with python, or similar coding language
  • Interest in business development and applications.
  • Creative problem solving.
  • Ability to work in a team.
  • Minimum availability of 4 months (40h/week).

What describes you?

  • Eager to contribute to a sustainable and circular future
  • Pro-active and willing to make true impact
  • Willing to work in a young and dynamic work environment
  • Eager to perform research in an industrious environment

The candidate

  • Set up project and research plans to make sure to achieve the objectives.
  • Perform in-depth literature and general research on C8-derivates and their
  • applications; in order to understand market sizes for caprylic acid
  • Complete an MCA (Multicriteria Analysis) of each market to determine size,
  • trends, drivers, and regulatory landscape.
  • Set up coding to trawl through various databases for molecules made using
  • caprylic acid, listing product, applications and company names.
  • Summarize data and obtained results in overviews (using Excel) and
  • effectively share progress with the team (presenting, using Word and
  • PowerPoint).
  • Report the journey and the conclusion in final reports (Word and PowerPoint).
  • Take part in usual Commercial Team activities.

What we offer

At ChainCraft, you contribute to a better world by making sustainable innovation a
reality. We offer a stimulating and informal environment with an international team
that shares a mission to replace fossil and palm-based chemicals with circular
alternatives. Within ChainCraft, you can join an enthusiastic and young team with
weekly free lunches, monthly drinks as well as activities for our employees and
interns. Furthermore, internship compensation of €450 per month is available.

Experience level: Junior

How to apply: send your CV and motivation to internships@chaincraft.com