delivery driver

water treatment specialist

senior sales leader

senior operator

account manager

Chemtreat

•	Cross functional experience of over 10 years in research and product development, product management, strategy, growth analysis
•	Currently working as Senior Scientist with ChemTreat Inc., one of the largest and fastest growing specialty chemical manufacturers dedicated to industrial water treatment. Responsibilities include development of proprietary products and solutions for water treatment industries, Development of products for new application areas such as steel, energy and power industries, ISO and EH&S, team management, competitive landscape, etc. 
•	Past working experience as:
o	Product Manager for the Chemicals and Monitoring Solutions of GE Water & Process Technologies, concentrating on product/technology gap analysis, new development to bridge the technical gap, and product line strategies for the region.
o	Lead Scientist at John F. Welch Technology Centre of GE Water & Process Technologies – Worked on various innovative projects in the water conservation, reuse and asset protection for the industries.
o	Postdoctoral Fellow at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH – Worked on fascinating area of molecular electronics and solid-state electrochemistry. Published 3 peer reviewed papers in reputed international journals. 
o	Japan Science Technology (JST) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Advanced Science and Technology Center for Cooperative Research (KASTEC); Kyushu University, Japan. Worked on electrochemical, cost-effective synthesis routes for nano-metal oxides, composites of polymers and metal oxides; Reported best capacitance, energy density and power density for the capacitor devises assembled using these high performance electrode materials.
o	Ph.D. at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science (IISc) – Conducting Polymers, Electrochemical Synthesis, First to report electrochemical synthesis of polyaniline on non-Platinum metals and study exciting applications such as electrocatalysis, Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices. Published 10 international papers.

High stress, increased expectations each year (often unattainable), very high compensation, high autonomy, minimal corporate input, limited interaction with boss (monthly). No consistency across territories. A bunch of sales cowboys doing what they want and treating their subordinates however they want with no oversight or accountability.  Fine as long as you are in the top 5% of company. You can get away with almost anything if you are a big producer. That includes mistreatment of coworkers, subordinates, even superiors. Zero performance reviews in 10 years, but told I was “making too much money” as part of every interaction with boss over last 3 years because it came out of their profit sharing. Despite exceeding expectations annually, I personally faced threats of pay cuts, demotion, and termination coupled with physical and mental abuse. 70-80 hours worked per week were “not enough for what we pay you”. HR aware and complied for years because boss was in top 5% of sales annually. No leadership accountability. Sales are all that matter, people don’t. Achieve sales goals by any means necessary.

Develop and implement the short medium and long term procurement strategies for respective commodities in support ChemTreat's PD objectives. Lead the negotiation with the suppliers, ensure the continuity of supply, communicate CTI's expectations of performance, lead supplier selection, manage the supplier relationship making sure the supplier interacts with the appropriate multi-functional CTI contacts
Develop and lead the commodity segment global sourcing strategy
Locate, analyze and develop a consolidated vendor base to meet PD objectives
Drive material sourcing strategy to deliver PPV goals
Negotiate and manage sourcing contracts
Manage suppliers, costs, quality, delivery performance and payment terms
Evaluate new vendors and add/remove them from the MRP system ad needed
lead multi-functional sourcing projects as required to qualify new vendors or deliver PPV results

Demonstrate and communicate internally the fundamental understanding of the commodities , their cost drivers and the key producers with the ability to develop a comprehensive sourcing strategy and material cost outlook and give regular evaluations and corrective actions where necessary.
Track and update relevant commodity indexes as required

What is the best part of working at the company?
Work schedule is good

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Terrible HR department. They let managers get away with whatever they want.
Managers only care about themselves. They don't care at all about employee development. Most of them shouldn't be in the positions they are in. They don't have any leadership skills. As an employee, you are only a statistic on their data sheets.
There's no employee incentives.
There's no employee appreciation.
Pay isn't that great for the work you do. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Morale is terrible around the entire plant. Don't expect to keep a positive attitude throughout any given work day. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Miserable. Please leave all your smiles at the entrance gate. You will not be satisfied while working until it's time to leave for the day. You can pick up your smiles again when you leave to go home.

Plant moral extremely low, managers more worried about themselves than their employees. A lot of false promises of promotions and raises to keep you their but they never come to light. Assistant plant managers at Virginia Plant are not deserving of their positions and not a single supervisor or manager in the plant has a degree of any kind.
These same managers/supervisors in the plant are horrible to work for. They are extreme micro-managers and have very little leadership skills. Working for these people turned all of my fellow employees into lifeless zombies who hated to come to work and were not willing to go above and beyond. Which is sad because when I started working their back in 2006 this was completely opposite.

This once was an amazing place to work, when run by the two founders. Once they gave up control, it rapidly went downhill. The ESOP became the driving force of the company,and long term planning for growth was non-existant. Because the ESOP was mismanaged, the company could not support itself, and had to be sold.

The new owners are only interested in squeezing out quarterly profits anyway they can. There have been numerous layoffs of longterm. No longer are they looking to hire experienced educated field personnel. Now, anyone with a pulse will do.

Salesdpersons used to be placed on a pedestal. Now, they are at the bottom of the food chain.

There were no annual reviews or focus for advancement.  The main goal was to keep the customers happy so the district/area managers did not have to service or visit the accounts but made the most percentage of the commission.  As a rep compensation did not trend with the hard work or relationships built.  Reps hard work benefitted district or area managers exponentially more than the rep.  Would only recommend an opportunity if you know exactly how you will be utilized and know how you will be compensated for your hard work.

Typical day includes all aspects of operational support/business processing. My role included additional responsibilities and projects. Management supports team as team players themselves. Very collaborative culture, though role definitions create a silo effect and contribute to time waste in typical day to day operations. Most difficult aspect of the job is the lean environment contributing to high stress, which often caused much more of the weight to fall on the top performers. Most enjoyable part of the job was the friendly culture - no matter what level in the company, all employees are very open with one another in a refreshing way.

Management just wants results, no matter how results are given, even if the results are achieved outside of compliance. Managers have favorites, if you are not a senior leadership favorite, you are nothing and thought of to be a problem. They don't give full disclosures about policies and procedures until after a mistake is made or there are no policies and procedures in place and everything is feral. No accountability for people who make errors and mistakes that result in other people cleaning up behind them micromanaged to produce results that are not realistic for one person to complete

this company prides itself on a lean staff. This leaves most employees feeling overworked or with a sense of pressure. This leaves the environment with a low sense of morale. Without the proper support or care from management, it doesn’t truly feel like you are part of a group working to achieve and better the company. I have worked in a couple of different departments and through this have learned that departments do not work well together.  Also, you will find that the company leaves employees who cannot complete daily tasks employed. They do little to reprimand them and it is truly discouraging.

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