Manager Sales

Michael Hansson

***B Asbury Street Mobile 832-***-****

Houston Tx 77007 e-mail **************@*****.***

Resume

Highly qualified Senior Manager with extensive international experience with a hands-on commercially oriented leader style and with more than fifteen years of experience in sales and marketing of chemicals in various parts of the world.

Result-focused leader with proven talent for proactively identifying business opportunities, reversal of negative trends, controlling costs and delivering substantial profit increases.

Experience and strengths in:

- Marketing and sales of chemicals, in particular specialty chemicals

- Extensive experience and profound understanding of chemical products, applications and markets such as Paint & Coatings, Personal Care, I&I Cleaning, Food, Oil & Gas and Polymers

-Handling of hazardous products and how to use this knowledge commercially

A - G PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

A. 2012 – Jan 2014 Brenntag Mexico

Title: Regional Manager Brenntag Mexico

Responsible for the P&L for three legal entities in Mexico with a revenue of $185M and 250 employees .

Changed the organization to accommodate for both commodities and specialties – “Two Business Models Under One Roof””.

Opened two application laboratories for Paint & Coatings and Construction specialties..

Negotiated a deal with a producer of water treatment chemicals resulting in that they closed their operations in Mexico and turned over the entire business to Brenntag, in total worth appr $8M in sales per year.

B. 2010 – 2012 Brenntag Central America

Title: Regional Manager Brenntag Central America

Responsible for the P&L for six countries in Central America with a revenue of $120M and 160 employees.

Changed the organization to accommodate for both commodities and specialties – “Two Business Models Under One Roof””.

Increased sales of specialty chemicals 15% annually

Successfully organized and led a team to win a $10M contract to design and equip a water treatment plant for waste water from a gold mine. The deal is the biggest single commercial achievement in the history of Brenntag Latin America

C. 2005-2010 Brenntag Latin America Houston

Title: Director of Strategic Sourcing & Marketing of Specialties.

Responsible for Sourcing and Marketing of Specialty Chemicals in Latin America (incl Mexico).

Appr. 30 indirect reports and 6 direct reports in Houston and in Holland.

Designed and implemented an organization for Marketing of Specialty Chemicals in Latin America.

Achieved and implemented several significant Turned Over Business deals with suppliers such as Evonik, and BASF resulting in additional sales of appr. $30M annually of specialty chemicals in Latin America.

Started Business Unit Polymers covering entire Latin America.

D. 2004-2005 Brenntag Southwest, Inc. (Houston)

Title: National Accounts Executive

Responsible for national/international key accounts in the Oil & Gas industry.

E. 1995 –2004 Brenntag Nordic AB, Sweden

Purchasing Manager (1995-1996)

Sales- and Purchasing Manager (1996-1998)

Division Manager (1998-2002)

Business Unit Manager (2002-2004)

As a Business Unit Manager I was in charge for of a $70 million business throughout the Nordic countries. Provided leadership for a 45-person workforce and held full P&L responsibility. Overlooked all business development, marketing and hiring.

Designed and implemented a program of surcharges resulting in a margin improvement of 4%.

Personally initiated and executed two minor acquisitions (asset deals).

Negotiated several Turned Over Business deals, amongst others AKZO’s sales of Hydrogen Peroxide to small and medium customers in Sweden. The deal included the takeover of fixed assets such as tanks etc and the construction of a dilution plant.

F. 1990-1995 Labassco AB (Sweden)

Product manager for product area Chemistry including but not limited to laboratory chemicals and various instruments for chemical analysis.

G. 1983-1985 Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Hired as laboratory assistant for general laboratory work at the Department of Polymer Technology.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA) Gothenburg School of Economics, Sweden

Master of Chemical Engineering Chalmers Technical University, Sweden

(Master Thesis: Thermal Degradation and Stabilization of PVC)

The Brenntag International Leadership Program

A program designed to prepare managers in the Brenntag group for more senior functions. It covered 12 seminar days and was held by Ashridge Management College, UK. Participants were 14 managers in senior positions from Europe and North and South America.

International Project Management INSEAD, France.

ADDITIONAL

1999-2004 Board Member of Retaki – a joint venture between Brenntag Nordic AB and Reci Industrier AB

Languages Swedish (native tongue)

English (fluent)

Spanish (intermediate to fluent)

/Michael Hansson January 2016

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