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Your Career

Read about the careers some of our people have followed since joining Innospec.

My name is Chris Burchett, and I am Group Reporting Manager, based within our Group Finance team at Ellesmere Port. My responsibilities include preparing financial documents for our shareholders and analysts at the New York Stock Exchange, and working with senior managers to control the corporate cost base of the company.

However, my present role is very different from the one that I envisaged at the start of my career.

When I first joined Innospec in 2001, I worked as a Senior Research Chemist at Ellesmere Port focusing on process development, scale up to pilot plant and full manufacture. I had graduated from Oxford University in 1996 with a Masters degree in Chemistry and then worked in a variety of technical roles with another chemical manufacturer.

In 2003 my career took on a new direction. I moved to the newly formed Corporate Technology Department and became involved in carrying out merger and acquisition work and reviewing our company's manufacturing capability. The latter involved developing a robust set of standard costs across the organisation.

As a direct result of this work I decided to study for a company sponsored management accountancy qualification, which I passed in 2006. Over the next two years I took the opportunity to work as a manufacturing accountant within all three of our business units, developing new systems, liaising with business managers and reporting on accounts from plant level right up to business unit level. I have been really privileged to work in so many areas of the business, and I have greatly appreciated the support and the opportunity to move from R&D to Finance within the same company.

Hi. I'm Helen Coy, the Safety, Health and Environmental Manager for Corporate services based at Innospec's Ellesmere Port site in the UK.

I graduated from De Montfort University in Leicester in 1994 with a First Class Honours degree in Chemistry with Business Studies and began my career working within the hazardous waste management industry. I joined Innospec in 2000 as a Technical Manager for one of their Joint Venture companies based at Ellesmere Port.

Two years later I was transferred over to our main business to carry out a variety of technical project management roles. In 2004, I spent six months in Corporate Development researching potential markets and acquisition targets. This provided some useful experience and knowledge of the various markets that Innospec operate within. At the same time I was responsible for conducting SHE due diligence for potential acquisition targets.

My next move was into Active Chemicals where I spent a year in technical sales responsible for market research and sales of our Active Chemicals product ranges into Europe, the Middle East and Africa. As part of my career development I took part in a Field Sales Development Programme, which was most useful.

Then in January 2006 I was offered the position of Environmental and Product Safety Manager within Corporate SHE. This was a wonderful opportunity, which I was more than pleased to accept. Since then my role has been expanded to include responsibility for corporate safety issues for all Innospec activities as the SHE Manager ï¿½ Corporate Services.

My name is Ramzi Jouaneh. I have been the Regional Sales Manager for our Fuel Specialties business in South Asia and Malaysia since 2003. I am also the Marketing Manager for Performance Specialties additives in Asia-Pacific and Head of our India office.

Taking responsibility for these different roles has proved an exciting and rewarding challenge. I never thought in 1998, when I joined the sales team covering France and French speaking African countries, that I would eventually be based in Singapore. Each step I took opened up new opportunities.

So shortly after joining Innospec my sales responsibilities were extended to include the Middle East and I was asked to develop market plans and set up a direct and indirect sales structure to support our marketing strategy. I had to identify potential new customers and find ways to deliver increased profits.

In late 2001 I was promoted to Commercial Manager of a new Innospec Joint Venture in India, based in Mumbai. This not only put me in charge of an entire marketing strategy for the first time. I was also responsible for budgeting and the profit and loss account. In 2003 I was promoted again, this time to Regional Sales Manager.

I would certainly recommend a career with Innospec. I feel I have come a long way since 1996 when I left ENS de Chimie de Rennes in France with a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering. My other qualification is a Masters in Economics and Corporate Management from the French Petroleum Institute (IPF school) in Paris.

I'm Wade Pang, I work for the Fuel Specialties business as the Technical Service Engineer responsible for the Power sector. I cover all technical service associated with the Power sector of Fuel Specialties for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), but sometimes I am asked to assist in projects worldwide. I am based in Ellesmere Port but my role requires substantial travel to support various projects in my region.

I graduated in 2005 from UMIST in Manchester with a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering with Industrial Experience. My industrial placement year was completed at ConocoPhillips Humber Refinery which allowed me to gain a good overview of the complete refining process and to become familiar with crude oil and the finished products.

In January 2006 I joined the Customer Technical Service (CTS) department for Fuel Specialties to support the Power and Marine sectors of the business. Due to some restructuring of the CTS department 6 months into my career with Innospec I was channelled to become solely responsible for technical service related directly to the Power sector.

I work closely with the Engineering manager to supply technical support to various Power projects and to perform on-site trials of our products. My main role is to propose suitable fuel treatment programs to power plants, chemical plants and refineries burning heavy fuel oil and to evaluate the performance of the treatment by on-site testing and parameter monitoring. My role also entails the ongoing technical support for existing customers as well as introducing the technology of fuel additive treatment to potential customers.

My future with the company is to continue to grow my expertise as a Power Applications Engineer and to become the specialist for the EMEA region. This will involve further research into additive technology and to introduce improved additive formulas required in the field.

My name is Jackie Reid. After graduating from Strathclyde University in Scotland in 1994 with an honours degree in Chemistry, I joined Innospec as an Experimental Officer at their Ellesmere Port site. After four years in the job I was promoted to Senior Experimental Officer with responsibility for process development, pilot plant operations and then full manufacturing programmes.

However, in 2000 I was given the opportunity to relocate to our Fuel Technology Centre in Milton Keynes as a Technical Officer. This role centred around customer and market support, providing answers to technical queries in the field and designing new additives to meet customer needs. It was challenging but good fun.

After a few years, I was promoted again to Section Leader. I had to take responsibility for managing the section, providing technical service for key accounts and training for staff, agents and customers. This proved to be a real step forward in my career.

At the end of 2005 I was invited to go back to Ellesmere Port but this time as Platform Leader in our Fuel Specialties business. It is a great job. I get to manage the development of new products to meet current and future business needs and manage our short, medium and long-term research programmes. Who knows what my next career move will be but I am sure it will be with Innospec.

Hi, I'm Christian Uerkwitz. In January 2007 I was delighted to be appointed Senior Sales Manager for our Heating Specialties business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The job gives me the opportunity to use my marketing experience to the full as well as take responsibility for managing the German sales force.

I have worked for Innospec all my career. I joined as a student at the Herne site in 1991 while I was studying for a Master in Business Administration degree in Economics at Bochum University in Germany. After graduating in 1995 I was promoted to sales representative with the then newly established Marine Specialties team.

In 2001 I was promoted again to Marketing Services Manager for the global Marine business. This role was extended a year later to include the global Power business as well. During this time I was involved in the launch of new brands and gained first hand experience of using various marketing communication tools, from new media to print media and public relations.

In 2004, I agreed to take over the Marketing Services responsibility for the entire Fuel Specialties business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This involved providing marketing support to our sales teams and managing our marketing communications activities internally and externally. We wanted to raise our profile across various markets in different countries.

My current role, as Senior Sales Manager for our Heating Specialties Business, feels like a natural step along an exciting career path. I enjoy it immensely.

I'm Colin Wardropper. When I left school in 1992 I joined what was later to become Innospec's aroma manufacturing site in Widnes as a junior laboratory technician. I found the work suited me and to further my career prospects I decided to study part-time for a BTEC National Certificate in Science.

Within 12 months I had passed the exams and found myself promoted to Laboratory Technician. My next challenge was to train to be an odour evaluator. This involved understanding our product portfolio and the 'good' and 'bad' odours connected with processing. I had to develop an 'odour memory'.

By 1995 I had completed my BTEC Higher National Certificate in Chemistry and was promoted to Senior Laboratory Technician. I then set my sights on taking a degree and after four years hard work I graduated from Liverpool John Moores University with an Honours degree in Chemistry.

Further promotions followed. In 2002 I was given the role of Process Development Chemist in our R&D laboratory and then in 2006 I was asked to take up the role of Plant Technologist. In 2007 I was promoted to my current position of Customer Service & Logistics Manager at the Active Chemicals Widnes site.

My job today includes setting up the site sales and operational plan as well as planning all of the raw material deliveries to site, based on current production run rates. I am also responsible for ensuring our customer service is of the highest possible standard and that our plant processes reflect our customers' needs. Who would have thought that raw school leaver would have reached such an important management role.