Technical work.
Real markets.
Ten countries.
ADCHEM is a specialty raw materials company with a global footprint and a federation model — each office locally owned, locally operated, locally trusted. We're not looking for large numbers of people. We're looking for the right people, and we invest in them once we find them.
The work is real.
The exposure is global.
ADCHEM operates as a federation of independent trading entities — ten offices across six regions, each with commercial and technical teams who know their markets. The work is genuinely international, technically demanding, and commercially significant.
A commercial manager in Cairo works across Egypt and North Africa with a portfolio of pharma and nutraceutical customers. A formulation scientist in Bergamo leads R&D projects for personal-care brands from brief to pilot scale. A logistics coordinator in Dubai tracks shipments from Japan, Switzerland, and Singapore to manufacturing plants across the Gulf, South Asia, and North Africa.
None of these roles are abstract. The materials move. The orders happen. The principal relationships are real. We are a small company by global standards, which means individuals carry weight, decisions matter, and growth is rapid for people who perform.
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Technical training before commercial deployment
Every commercial team member at ADCHEM is briefed on the chemistry of the products they sell before they face a customer. This is not a training day — it is an ongoing expectation. We invest in technical education because it makes every customer conversation better.
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Local roots. Global connections.
We hire in-country, not from headquarters. Our Cairo team is Egyptian. Our Istanbul team is Turkish. Our Lahore team is Pakistani. But every team member is connected to a global platform — COSMO, our digital infrastructure — and to a network of principals, labs, and colleagues across ten countries.
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Diversity is structure, not policy
A significant share of our commercial and sourcing teams are women — unusual for specialty raw materials distribution, and one we lean into deliberately. The result is a group that questions assumptions, adapts faster, and represents the markets we actually serve.
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Ownership without bureaucracy
ADCHEM is privately held and founder-led. Decisions are made by people who are in the markets, not by a committee at corporate headquarters. Individuals who produce results earn responsibility quickly — and that responsibility is real, not ceremonial.
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We don't hire generalists and train them to sound technical. We hire people who are curious about how things are made — and give them the commercial infrastructure to do something with that curiosity.
Roles across 10 countries.
Each office is a full operating entity — commercial teams, regulatory support, and logistics coordination. This is where careers are built.
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Dubai
Group Headquarters All segments
Commercial
Logistics
Regulatory
Finance
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Bergamo, Italy
ADCHEM Europe · Formulation Lab
R&D
Formulation
Commercial
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Istanbul, Türkiye
ADCHEM İlaç Kimyasalları
Commercial
Technical
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Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
ADCHEM · Gulf market
Commercial
Regulatory
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Cairo, Egypt
ADCHEM Egypt · North Africa
Commercial
Regulatory
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Lahore, Pakistan
ADCHEM Pakistan · Formulation Lab
Commercial
R&D
Logistics
A workforce that reflects
the markets we serve.
ADCHEM's teams combine deep technical training with regional fluency that only comes from being on the ground. Our commercial teams are local — they speak the language, navigate the regulators, and earn the customer relationships.
A significant share of ADCHEM's commercial and sourcing teams are women — a pattern unusual for the specialty raw materials trade and one we lean into deliberately. The result is a group that questions assumptions, adapts faster, and represents the markets we actually serve.
"We invest in people who want to go deep — technically, commercially, and regionally. If you want to represent world-class chemistry to manufacturers who need it, in markets that are moving fast, ADCHEM is a good place to build that career."
We update this list when we have roles that are genuinely open. We don’t list roles to build a pipeline — these are real positions with a hiring manager waiting.
All positions are full-time and on-site at the relevant office unless otherwise noted. ADCHEM does not use recruitment agencies — all applications should be made directly via the links below or to
Commercial responsibility for the pharmaceutical excipients portfolio across the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman. Principal relationships include Shin-Etsu and Vanderbilt Minerals.
Bench-level formulation and stability work in the Bergamo lab for personal-care brand and contract manufacturer customers. Experience in skin care and hair care formulation required.
Market-facing commercial role covering Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. Pharma and nutraceuticals focus. Arabic and English required. Experience in B2B specialty distribution preferred.
Import registration, DRAP compliance, dossier compilation, and regulatory documentation support for pharmaceutical and personal-care customers across Pakistan’s three ADCHEM offices.
Multi-modal logistics coordination across the ADCHEM network using COSMO, our proprietary platform.
Customer-facing commercial and technical role serving pharma and personal-care manufacturers across the Kingdom.
Commercial responsibility for the pharmaceutical excipients portfolio across the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman. Principal relationships include Shin-Etsu and Vanderbilt Minerals.
Bench-level formulation and stability work in the Bergamo lab for personal-care brand and contract manufacturer customers. Experience in skin care and hair care formulation required.
Market-facing commercial role covering Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. Pharma and nutraceuticals focus. Arabic and English required. Experience in B2B specialty distribution preferred.
Import registration, DRAP compliance, dossier compilation, and regulatory documentation support for pharmaceutical and personal-care customers across Pakistan’s three ADCHEM offices.
Multi-modal logistics coordination across the ADCHEM network using COSMO, our proprietary platform.
Customer-facing commercial and technical role serving pharma and personal-care manufacturers across the Kingdom.
Send a CV anyway.
We review speculative CVs seriously and keep them on file when we expand. If you have a background in technical sales, regulatory affairs, formulation science, or supply chain — and want to work in specialty chemicals in a market where ADCHEM operates — this is the right submission.
We can train product knowledge. We can train market knowledge. We can't train the underlying attributes — so these are the ones we look for first.
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Technically curious
You want to understand how the molecule works, not just what it costs. You ask good questions before you make claims.
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Commercially driven
You want to close business, not just generate activity. You measure yourself on outcomes, not effort.
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Comfortable with complexity
Multi-market, multi-segment, multi-principal. This environment rewards people who can hold a lot of context and still move quickly.
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Locally fluent
The customer in Cairo is different from the customer in Istanbul. Regional and cultural fluency — not just language — is something we hire for deliberately.
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Long-term in their thinking
We build principal relationships over years. We build customer relationships over years. People who think about relationships in years — not quarters — fit well here.
Email us directly. careers@adchem.com
We don't use intermediaries. The HR team in Dubai reads every application and every career enquiry directly. Response within five working days.