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* Reporting directly into Tosoh Europe’s Managing Director, lead and coach the Supply Chain team and the General Affairs team to success * Responsible for the company’s Supply Chain and Logistics, including warehousing and distribution. * Responsible for ensuring that the company is compliant with all applicable laws and regulations by managing and establishing procedures for Customs and Export Controls, and updating and working closing with the business to communicate any relevant changes in rules and regulations. * Establish long and short term Supply Chain planning, striving for cost reduction, optimization and streamlining of operations. * Manage General Affairs & Facilities.

Effectively manage the import and export order fulfillment process by working across the supply chain and with the commercial units (Ashland Specialty Ingredients, Ashland Water Technology, Ashland Performance Materials, Ashland Consumer Markets/Valvoline) - Responsible for performance management and developing the employees accountable for providing import and export support to Ashland’s customers, supply chain partners and commercial units. - Manage the Trade Compliance team and programs for the various business units in Ashland and ensure process adherence for export and import order management. - Responsible for ensuring that the export and import teams incorporate the latest legal, compliance and process changes into standard, executable business processes, working closely with regional teams to identify, implement and integrate global best practices. - Heavily involved in integrating acquired companies and businesses by evaluating the order-to-cash and plan-to-deliver processes within those companies, establishing best practices and rolling out new processes and ERP systems.

* Created and set up the export department in the Barcelona back-office, consolidating the export activities from all European plants and warehouses for various divisions within Ashland Inc. * Assisted the purchasing department for Ashland Performance Materials with imports into Europe * Main contact for export issues and questions in Europe for all divisions * Participated in several workshops and projects for export consolidation and global trade management * As a Power User, created processes and job aides for OTC roles and conducted new and current employee training

* Managed the order-to-cash process for Spain, Portugal, Finland and North-Africa * Organized export of dangerous goods from and to Europe * Coordinated production planning, expedition and reception of resins and gel coats * As a Power User of SAP, formed part of the data transformation team and the implementation team of SAP in Ashland Europe * Training of the European order-to-cash End Users in SAP * One of the two main contacts for issues, questions and problems in SAP for the Barcelona office

* Managed accounts for major supermarket chains, grocery and specialists * Resolved overdue payment problems and negotiated and communicated directly with customers by phone, fax and e-mail in French, Dutch, German and Spanish * Managed extensive database, tracking all customer payment history in the region

* Planned events, organized and coordinated seminars which introduced new maintenance software designed for SMEs in Spain * Expanded client portfolio into Spanish and Portuguese markets, and acted as primary contact for new customers * Translated entire company web site and all major commercial documents into Spanish, English, Portuguese and Dutch

Effectively lead the Global Trade, Customs and Compliance team for Europe, Middle East and Africa which is the governing point of contact in Europe for substantive interactions with national trade authorities - Establish and manage corporate Trade Compliance programs, setting corporate policies and procedures, training and compliance performance management throughout the Supply Chain - Provide value to the commercial units through the strategic management of multiple Trade Compliance & Duty Optimization programs such as Free Trade Agreements, duty suspension and draw back programs - Coordination of Regulatory and Customs Compliance with other internal stakeholders such as EH&S, R&D, Business, Logistics, etc. - Ensure compliance with all regulatory and customs requirements applying to Ashland’s import and export activities and customs licenses, including AES and AEO

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* Global responsibility for Customs Management and Trade Compliance * Establish and manage corporate Trade Compliance programs, setting corporate policies and procedures * Customs management optimization through implementation of GTS (SAP), SASP license and rationalization of brokers, in close cooperation with Logistics, Customer Service and Sourcing.

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