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Work on strategic topics that connect and drive the ALTANA Group worldwide.

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Whether you are just starting your career or already bring professional experience, the ALTANA holding company and ALTANA Management Services offer an environment where development, contribution, and stability go hand in hand.

Pupils
Hands-on experience from the start.
Students
Put theory into practice.
Graduates
Start your career in a structured way. Take on responsibility.
Experienced Professionals
Put your experience to good use.
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Anne Asmacher

Here, we have the resources to actively help shape the future of the 3D printing market.

Anne Asmacher

Part of the ALTANA internal startup Cubic Ink

Facts & Figures

The ALTANA holding company and Management Services at a glance

The ALTANA holding company and ALTANA Management Services bundle central functions and services that support our divisions both strategically and operationally. This is where orientation, structures, and solutions are created, enabling collaboration and informed decision‑making.

Employees

276

Functional departments

22

Acquisitions over the past 10 years

23

Find your place with long-term perspective

Whether in Innovation, or different Business and Corporate Functions such as IT, Human Resources and Finance at the ALTANA holding company as well as in ALTANA Management Services, we combine progress with long-term stability, thereby creating opportunities to take on responsibility and shape the future together.

Good research needs reliability. At ALTANA, you benefit from long-term structures, modern infrastructure, and the financial strength of a global specialty chemicals group.

This gives you the freedom to explore topics in depth, test hypotheses, and take new paths with a clear focus on quality and impact.

In addition to the activities within the divisions, selected innovations are also initiated and coordinated at ALTANA Holding to open up new fields of business while addressing emerging technology and market trends. These innovations are built on the strong capabilities of our divisions across the entire value chain, as well as on the synergies that arise between them. To shape new innovation areas, we pursue different approaches: corporate venturing, the ALTANA Institute, and our so‑called technology platforms.

One current example is Cubic Ink technology for 3D printing across a wide range of industries.

You do not want to commit to a specific entry-level position yet, but would like to get to know different functional areas, locations or companies of ALTANA? Then perhaps a trainee program is just right for you. Motivated and high-performing talents complete the two-year program in various projects and at several company locations

In business and other corporate functions, you help create a cross-divisional framework that makes progress possible.

Whether in Finance, Corporate Development, Human Resources, or IT, you work across divisions and functions, think ahead, and understand how things connect. Our financial strength and shared values form the basis for a culture of openness and trust that enables development and innovation.

Because for us, real progress means keeping what’s good works and improving what can be better.

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Your benefits & our promise

Looking for a work environment with a strong future perspective? ALTANA combines stability with growth and flexibility—for everyone who wants to make a long-term commitment and help shape the future.

  • Development
    Learn, grow, and take responsibility.
  • Work-Life Balance
    At ALTANA, “Good Chemistry” also means a healthy balance of reliability and flexibility for everyone involved.
  • Health & Wellbeing
    An environment where you can feel healthy and fit.
  • Diversity & Equal Opportunity
    Bring in your perspective. Different points of view are a key foundation for innovation.
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Who we are

The ALTANA holding company of the ALTANA Group is the strategic center of an internationally successful specialty chemicals group. This is where you can help shape the foundations for innovation, growth, and sustainable success worldwide, from strategy and governance to sustainability and communications.

You collaborate closely with the operating divisions and gain insights into diverse markets, technologies, and cultures. Your work provides direction, support informed decision-making, and strengthen the long-term development of the entire ALTANA Group.

ALTANA stands for entrepreneurial thinking and action, trust, and responsibility. The holding organization offers a professional environment with short decision-making paths, where you can grow your expertise, develop personally, and help shape the success of the entire ALTANA Group together with its divisions.

ALTANA Management Services supports all divisions of the ALTANA Group with central services—from IT, procurement, and payroll to accounting as well as process and project management. Your work helps ensure that the divisions can focus as fully as possible on their core business and core areas of expertise.

You contribute to group-wide solutions and standards while staying close to people and their needs. It is a place where you can improve processes, drive digital solutions, and actively shape how ALTANA collaborates globally.

If you see yourself as an internal business partner and want to develop scalable and efficient solutions for group-wide, divisional, or regional requirements, this is the place for you.

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Develop additives and measuring instruments that make products better, processes more efficient, and quality measurable.
Create effect pigments that give products brilliance, depth, and new functionality.
Work on insulation and protective materials that make modern technologies safer and more durable.
Develop specialty solutions that protect and enhance packaging and make it more sustainable.

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Join the ALTANA holding company and ALTANA Management Services and help us shape the future on a solid foundation.

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Headquartered in Wesel (Germany), with offices in Shanghai (China) and in Schererville (USA).

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