Sergio Esteves Gutierrez

Responsibilities: - Establish the sales and finance (matrix) structure accross the EMEA region in order to enable the management of Specialties products - Coordination of compliance relevant topics in the region - Finance leadership and responsibility for the Sales Region Specialties EMEA - Monitore and analyse sales and finance KPI`s and its adherence to the Budget. - Discuss eventual deviations and countermeasures with the sales force - Management and coordination of projects

Main achievements: - Successful finace management during the 2009 crisis, with significant positive profit and cash effects. - Designed and implemented, in Hyperion, a solution for reporting world-wide the Order Intake and Sales per customer. - Successfully integrated the japanese JV companies into the EB reporting structure. - Activelly supported the adminstrative cost quote reduction from 8,5% to 6,4%. - Coordination of a global cost reduction program of more than 31 Mio. € in 2015 / 2016

Main achievements: - Implementation of Hyperion as consolidation / reporting system, with a reduction of 50% in the reporting time and a significant quality increase. - Development and implementation of a tool for reporting Order Intake & Sales per customer and product worldwide. - Implementation of a standard Investment viability calculation tool within the Group.

Main Achievements: - Strong optimization of manual production processes aplying time & movements analysis - Brought externally produced products back to the company, saving 30% of Production costs - Coordinated a cost reduction program, over achieving budgeted targets

Main Achievements: - Strong optimization of manual production processes aplying time & movements analysis - Brought externally produced products back to the company, saving 30% of Production costs - Coordinated a cost reduction program, over achieving budgeted targets

Main Achievements: - Development of a Word VBA program automatizing the genneration of Offers to the customers. This program, allowed the external sales force to easily gennerate the offers, reducing response time and also internal costs.