Dr. Alexander Vetter

Responsible for Operations in ten production sites in Europe, forming one team from two different company cultures, optimizing footprint and generating synergies. Additionally: high focus on safety and people development.

Service Level improvements globally, through flexibilization of product portfolio, process discipline and action-oriented visualization

Leading our European Masterbatches sites in Poland, Sweden, Ireland, Belgium, France and Spain. Strong focus on productivity increase and service improvement to meet market demands and support Clariant's growth strategy. Heading Clariant's Operational Excellence program (CPS) at Masterbatches Europe (10 sites)

Leading operations of our medical and pharmaceutical masterbatch site, incl. production, supply chain and quality, as well as overall site responsibility

Responible for Clariant Production System knowledge management, incl. content and roll-out. Creation of blueprints, coaching, site projects, financial benefit reporting, audits/check-ups.

Lean SixSigma MBB at Alcan (since Mar'10: 3A Composites) • Responsible for Continuous Improvement worldwide: CH, Germany, China, India, USA, Brasil & Ecuador • Manufacturing and transactional process process improvement projects, incl. coaching, training and workshops

Lean-SixSigma MBB at ING Insurance Central Europe • LSS roll-out in Europe • Focus on improvements of transactional processes in Spain and Greece with a team of 10 BBs, e.g. 70-80% cycletime improvements in main processes and 30% increase of agents’ productivity • Design of new Sales Model for agents in Spain • Coaching/Training for Retail Banking in NL and Direct Banking in Spain • Prince 2 Project Management (Practitioner)

Quality Leader EMEA at GE Advanced Materials (since Dec'06: Momentive Performance Materials) • Lean-SixSigma Champion/MBB for the EMEA region: UK, Italy, CH, Belgium, NL, D, India, leading a team of 15 Blackbelts • Member of the company’s global SixSigma Blackbelt certification panelComplaints and Quality Management • Head of QC laboratories • ISO/TS 16949:2002 (Automotive) and ISO 9001:2000 auditor.

Lab Leader at Bayer Pharma (Chemical Development) • Set-up and led two labs with focus on fast sample throughput and <48h method development in GC, HPLC and headspace GC, robot-based parallel synthesis and online IR.