Hermann Bach

Head of Strategy and Innovation, BU Care Chemicals, Clariant

Basel, Basel, Switzerland

About

Driving profitable and sustainable growth via #strategic marketing, #sustainability transformation, #innovation and #digitalisation in an international, corporate environment

Experience

  • Clariant (Basel, Switzerland)
    • Head of Strategy and Innovation, BU Care Chemicals
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Leading Strategy & Innovation for BU Care Chemicals. This entails a number of functions that provide a glue to Care Chemicals and help to steer the BU across global segments, i.e. Strategic Marketing (incl. BU strategy development & implementation, product/portfolio management, strategic pricing, digital customer journeys and channels as well as commercial transformation), Sustainability Transformation, Innovation Management, and R&D for the technology platforms surfactants and specialty polymers.

    • Head of Strategic Marketing and Innovation, BU Industrial & Consumer Specialties
      Jul 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

      In support of BU ICS's ambition to further transform into a leading innovative and sustainable specialty solutions provider, my team and I manage and support the global innovation pipeline of the Business Unit, develop and execute innovation strategies, develop and implement the global key account management strategies as well as the global market segment strategies.

  • SVP, Head of Innovation Management & Commercial Services at Covestro
    Jan 2016 - Jun 2021 · 5 yrs 6 mos

    Driving #digitalization, #business-model-innovation, #technology-incubation for more sustainable materials, and #innovation culture with a global team inside and outside of the lines. - Re-designed digital customer journey to enhance customer experience at all touch-points and to create a 360 customer view for better, data-based business steering. - Covestro flagship store on Aliababa 1688 to reach out to long tail customers in China - E-commerce platform Asellion with Covestro Direct Store established in Amsterdam (https://www.asellion.com/) with double digit sales growth on Covestro Direct Store. - MVP of new IoT and AI based venture creating several short- and long-term benefits for polymer processing companies validated. - Portfolio of CO2 based materials with CAT Center Aachen, materials based on bio-based feedstock. - Covestro start-up challenge established to drive entrepreneurial culture

  • Member of working group "Digital Platforms and Ecosystems" at World Economic Forum
    Jun 2018 - May 2021 · 3 yrs

  • Board Member at kunststoffland NRW e.V.
    Jun 2016 - May 2021 · 5 yrs

  • Member at BMI Lab
    Jan 2016 - May 2021 · 5 yrs 5 mos

    Cross industry-academia think tank on business model innovation