Develop market intelligence platform for the Chemical intermediates & Metalworking, Lubricants market segmentsTranslate market developments into risks and opportunities for the global sales teamsMonitor global feedstock & energy price developments and their influence on P&LDevelop, implement and track pricing guidance for Guerbet Alcohol & Comonomer assets.Co-develop market-asset-product strategiesDevelop and maintain the financial budget models for Chemical intermediate & Metalworking, lubricants marketsMonitor developing markets (EV's, wind power, solar)

• Key account Manager for Global Comonomers business totaling >250ktpa spanning multiple production assets and serving North America, Europe and Asia. Responsibilities include o Co-ordination of global sales forecasting with regional sales managerso Main commercial contact for strategic customer queries and growth opportunitieso Lead global annual price and volume discussions for accounto Develop and monitor overall customer profitability metrics o Co-ordinate customer complaints/technical enquiries in-houseo First point of contact for account and ensure one voice to the customero Price forecastingo Lead global optimization initiatives such as Demurrage cost recovery, reviewing supply chain contracts and geo-swaps.o Setting gross margin sales budgets• Distributor Account Manager for LCCP Ethylene Glycols business of >300ktpao Commercial lead for EG startup, managing relationship with sole distributor including qualification of all new customers and sample campaignso Maintain sales/production forecastso Facilitate all technical/quality or supply chain related enquiries internallyo Review and interpret P&L from an integrated and non-integrated perspective to drive business behaviour and profitabilityo Setting gross margin sales budgets• Sales Manager, North America Ethylene co-products including Propylene, Crude Butadiene, Heavy & Light Pygaso Manage accounts of legacy cracker and new accounts associated with new LCCP crackero Manage offspec production with spot saleso Drive improved value recovery of co-productso Lead negotiations on contract renewals/extensionso Setting gross margin sales budgets

Developed Global supply demand model for Polyethyelene and Poly Alpha-olefin Comonomers. Developed Global supply and demand model for Ethylene and downstream derivatives. Analysis of global market trends and interpretation for business strategy setting and tactical sales planning. Global netback and margin optimisation on a regional/customer basis for portfolio restructuring. Price forecasting and leading price to profit realisation initiatives for global sales team. Developed business health dashboards and KPI's for ongoing business improvement initiatives.

• Responsible for S&OP planning and optimisation of Comonomers, Safol and C8 alcohol value chains, playing in mixed commodity and speciality product markets globally.• Supported Safol23 commercialisation activities with detergent alcohol customers in RSA.• Alignment of global sales demand with asset production capacity. Responsible for short, mid and long term (budget) strategic planning in conjunction with global M&S team.• Co-ordination of export and local sales requirements. • Co-ordination of value chain team from upstream feed-stock procurement to downstream third party and internal sales execution. • Direct interaction with manufacturing hubs and production directive setting. Management of continuous and batch production product lines. • Production ATOP evaluation and sales forecast accuracy measurement. Responsible for establishing global inventory targets in alignment with demand profiles and supply chain constraints. • Balancing of global inventory to meet working capital targets. Provide insight to variable cost of production optimisation opportunities and contribution margin improvement. Lead innovation generation team for longer term optimisations and growth opportunities within the greater chemical value chain.

Technical support process engineer for Octene 1&2 production assets. Performed daily optimisation and troubleshooting activities. Developed small project business cases and conceptual design packages for asset utilisation and safety improvement. Project technical track lead for product quality study and continuous improvement initiatives. Developed and implemented a global asset optimisation control scheme to reduce losses and improve production efficiency ratio. Assisted in root cause analyses for production and safety events. Participated in the development of service level agreements (SLA's) between integrated businesses/value chains.