The plastics industry has a structural problem: producers have decades of pricing intelligence and buyers are left guessing. ResinSmart exists to close that gap — with real transaction data, genuine market expertise, and a team that has spent careers on the buy side.

If you've lived in that world and want to help other buyers win in it, we'd like to hear from you.

WHO WE ARE

ResinSmart by RTi Global is a resin procurement intelligence and benchmarking platform. We’re not a traditional consulting firm and we’re not a data vendor — we’re both. Our platform is powered by 5B+ lbs of real buyer-seller transaction data and delivered by a small, senior team with 25+ years of resin market expertise.

We work with PE-backed and independent plastics processors across injection molding, blow molding, film, sheet, and thermoforming — helping them benchmark prices, manage supplier relationships, and make procurement decisions from a position of knowledge. Our clients have captured over $1B in documented savings doing it.

ResinSmart is growing deliberately. We add people when we find the right ones — not to fill a headcount, but because the right people make us sharply better for our clients.

WHY RESINSMART

The buy side is underserved. Resin buyers negotiate against producers who have decades of pricing intelligence, established relationships, and market leverage. ResinSmart was built to change that equation — and the people we hire are the core of how we do it.

What it's actually like to work here:

• Small, senior team — no layers, no bureaucracy, direct access to leadership and real decisions
• Platform-forward — we're building something genuinely new in a market that needs it, and your work shapes what the platform becomes
• Your fingerprints on the work — every client engagement, market brief, and benchmark assessment reflects the team that built it
• Clients who need you — the plastics firms we work with are dealing with real margin pressure and need a practitioner, not a generalist
• Real growth path — we build careers here; the expectation is that you grow into account leadership over time
• Buy-side orientation — you think from the buyer's perspective instinctively, not as a framework you learned
• Practitioner credibility — you've done the work, not just advised on it
• Intellectual honesty — we deal in real data and real outcomes; we don't dress things up
• Hunger to build — we're an early-stage platform and we want people who are energized by that, not unsettled by it
• Client-ready communication — whether the output is a benchmark report, a market brief, or a negotiation call, quality matters
• You've held senior roles in procurement, sourcing, operations, or supply chain at a plastics processor, OEM, or consumer goods manufacturer
• You know buyers — not as contacts in a CRM, but as people you've worked alongside, negotiated with, or managed for years
• You believe the buy side has been underserved for too long, and you've seen it firsthand
• You're energized by the idea of connecting people you trust with something that can genuinely help them

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

Across every role on our team, a few things matter above everything else:

WHERE WE'RE BUILDING

Our team spans three functional areas. We hire into each when the right person appears — not on a fixed schedule.

Consulting & Client Advisory

The practitioners on our consulting team are the people our clients rely on. They deliver benchmark assessments, lead monthly engagement calls, and build procurement strategies backed by real transaction data. Our current growth focus is adding plastics engineering depth to this team — practitioners who bring both technical credibility and buy-side procurement experience to every client engagement.

• Senior Plastics Procurement Technical Advisor — our current active opening (see full JD at resinsmart.ai/careers)
• Consulting roles at all levels of seniority — if you've managed real resin spend, we want to know you

Market Intelligence

Our market intelligence team tracks the signals that matter — producer nominations, feedstock movements, supply/demand dynamics — and turns them into the content and analytics our clients and consulting team rely on every month. We look for people who understand how resin markets actually work, not just how they're described in public indices.

Platform & Analytics

Our Resonate analytics platform is at the center of everything we deliver. We're building the industry's most sophisticated resin procurement intelligence tool — and we look for engineers and data professionals who care about making real decisions better, not just building impressive technology.

CURRENT OPENING

We are actively hiring for one role right now:

Senior Plastics Procurement Technical Advisor

Remote (US) · Full-time · ~25% travel

A client-facing technical and procurement advisory role for a plastics engineer who crossed into procurement — someone who can lead VABE studies, spec rationalization, and grade consolidation work while simultaneously managing benchmarks, supplier negotiations, and monthly client engagement. Engineered resin depth (nylon, PC, ABS, POM, PMMA, TPO, PPS) and hands-on processing application experience are strong advantages. Plastics engineering foundation paired with buy-side spend ownership is the defining requirement.

Full job description: resinsmart.ai/careers

STRATEGIC ADVISOR PROGRAM

Some of the most important people in this industry aren't sitting in procurement offices anymore. They've retired. They've been reorganized out. They've moved on — but the relationships they built over 20 or 30 years are still very much alive.

If that sounds like you, we'd like to talk.

ResinSmart was built on a simple belief: resin buyers deserve better. Better data, better benchmarks, better footing when they sit across the table from a producer. You spent a career knowing that. Now there's a platform built around it.

Who we're looking for

The right Strategic Advisor isn't looking for a job. They're looking for a reason to stay in the game — to keep using the network they spent decades building, to keep mattering in an industry they know better than most people ever will.

What the relationship looks like

This isn't a referral program with a form to fill out. It's a relationship — built on a shared belief in what ResinSmart is trying to do and a mutual trust that both sides will show up with integrity.

Strategic Advisors connect the dots. They open doors to companies that could benefit from ResinSmart's benchmarking and intelligence platform, make the introduction, and let our team take it from there. The structure, the compensation, and the specifics are all things we work through together — after a conversation where we make sure the fit is real on both sides.

If any of this resonates, let's have a conversation. There's no pitch, no pressure, and no paperwork on the first call — just a chance to see if it makes sense.

Reach out: mworkman@resinsmart.ai

HOW TO REACH US

For active openings, send your resume and a brief note mworkman@resinsmart.ai. No formal cover letter — just tell us what you've done, what you're looking for, and why ResinSmart sounds like the right next move.

Don't see an active opening that fits? Send a note anyway. We're a small team and we keep a short list of people we'd like to know. If something opens up that fits your background, you'll hear from us.

"The market is structurally tilted toward producers. Our job is to tilt it back. If that's the kind of problem you want to spend your career on, we should talk."

— Michael Workman, Executive Director, ResinSmart