Maria Marcos

Leading the Supply Chain Excellence Diagnostic and Lean Transformation Project Managers to develop improvements across the end-to-end processes within Clariant's Business Units

Drive sustainable supply chain improvements in the areas of: maturity development, cost optimization, service level improvement and NWC reduction across the entire Clariant corporation

• Leading Base Resin BU service improvement initiative, increasing on-time in-full deliveries by 18% (CEO award) • Driving strategic mixed-level-loading program of a 160KMTon/year polycarbonate resin plant to ensure S&OP execution and reduce grades changeovers by 2% • Responsible to coordinate and manage execution of €1.5M/y productivity projects (Indirect 30 FTEs) • Customer Service and Logistics Team Leader backup at Bergen Op Zoom Site (Indirect 11 FTEs) Certified Black Belt DMAIC

• Introduced a structural cost management in an international food producer • Executed a labour productivity reduction of a world leading chemical company • Implemented a cycle time reduction program that decreased delivery process time of national books logistics provider • Trainer of the Project Management and Black Belt programs • Supported the business growth of the consulting firm by managing existing and prospects clients

• Identified a total of €23M savings in the food, pharmaceutical, chemicals, plastics and rubber businesses of a major life and materials sciences player through a Supply Chain assessment in alignment with the Business Units Supply Chain leadership teams • Coached the operational excellence consulting team in Six Sigma to improve the credit process ordering of a retail bank • Collaborated in the launching of the Manufacturing Transformation Value proposition

• Conducted technology and manufacturing teams to produce a double-digit margin product • Designed the Manufacturing fulfilment plan for European and Pacific customers • Supported as a team member in the construction, commissioning and start-up team of the new manufacturing chemical plant

Chemical Operations: Optimization of Chemical BPA plant Compounding Operations: Risk Quality Control in LEXAN plant Design Engineering: LEXAN specials plant construction

• Coordination of the European implementation of ATEX directive at 15 production sites (Atmosphere Explosive) • Designed DFSS project to ensure 100% European Directive fulfillment

Support Turnaround of the refinery: • Deployed lockout systems to ensure safety and compliance of equipment insulation • Implemented safety procedures for a maintenance shutdown of the combustibles plant at the refinery