Eric Borgstedt

Background

About Eric Borgstedt

Global Business/Marketing Manager - Effective leader with commercial and technical experience in multiple market segments within the chemical and material industries - Strong business performance in both specialty, commodity chemicals and materials market segements - Identified and executed sustainability solutions and circular economy projects - Implemented efficient management operating systems to manage sales & marketing programs, opportunity pipeline processes, and cost reduction projects - Ability to grow top line revenue and reduce manufacturing cost to grow key VCM and OI margins - Globally managing marketing, product management and sales teams, 5-40 individuals - Strategic account development and account planning - Business development and sales experience in both long-cycle and transactional sales - Strategic marketing skills, long-term and short-term plan development and execution - Marketing skills include VOC/OVOC, value proposition creation, pricing management, segmentation, market data evaluation, critical-to-quality identification, and competitive analysis - Negotiation skills - sales contracts, licenses, and partnerships - Multiple product launches with strong new sales growth - Product launches in complex and regulated environments around the world - Global team leader and team player, leading projects from inception to commercialization - Welcomes new challenges/problem solver - New product development employing stage gate process - Small and large public and private company experience - Strong analytical skills - Team leadership, coaching and building effective & diverse teams globally - People management skills - Salesforce.com experitise to manage pipeline of opportunities - Accolade to manage new product development