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Mini MBA for the Chemical Industry

Get the key skills you need to move into a new commercial or management role in the Chemical Industry.

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The Key Issues

The chemical industry is increasingly faced with new competition, stricter regulations, and stakeholder pressure around societal and environmental issues. As a manager, how do you respond to these challenges? What skills and competencies do you need to face and respond quickly to the ever-changing business environment? How do you move forward in these challenging times?
So, how can you get this understanding and experience faster if you have a scientific, engineering, technical or specialist background?

Strategic leadership

Managing
people

Financial management

Key Competences​

Operational excellence

Customer centricity & sales

Procurement & logistics

The Right Programme for You

You have been working in the Chemical industry for 5+ years. You have an engineering, technical, scientific or specific role and are moving into a commercial or management position. This is the ideal programme for you.

  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

Get the essential business finance skills you need for your role in the Chemical Industry.

Focus on operational excellence as part of your strategy.

Develop your leadership skills to drive the strategy forward.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Understand how the different parts of the chemical business come together and what role you can play in the organization
  • Translate the changes in the chemical industrial environment into more competitive strategies for sustainable growth
  • Develop insights into how managers in the chemical industry can effectively lead people and align teams to implement the new strategy
  • Become an active contributor in this change process for your own company
  • Gain more insight in how to develop a sharper strategy definition
  • Understand the importance of the financial aspects in your company
  • Develop the best management methods and tools for your current and future career
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

Programme Details

The 5-Day Mini MBA for the Chemical Industry is a 5-days hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme is led by an experienced facilitator with former management experience in international companies.

Five Programme Modules

  • Evolution of the Chemical Industry and major global trends
  • The new geopolitical repartition of chemical industry
  • Mergers and acquisitions and control of industries by financial groups
  • Growing sustainability concerns and lobbies influence
  • Sustainability and Circular economy as new potential innovation drivers
  • Creating the right mission, vision, strategy and business plans
  • Building the “Strategy House”: the MCE Strategy Execution model
  • Alignment of organizations to new strategy and business models
  • Implementation of the strategy
  • Management versus leadership
  • The leadership action plan
  • Leadership styles and you as a leader
  • Leading multi-national and multi-cultural teams
  • Leading Joint ventures, Alliances, Post-merger integration
  • Change management: Leadership in a changing environment
  • Organizational structures: Matrix, Business Unit, Divisions, Global, Regional, Local and combinations
  • Understanding and meeting customer needs: Building the Customer Value Proposition
  • Product market positioning
  • Value-based pricing
  • Managing Global key Accounts
  • Managing Sales portfolio and the sales funnel
  • Customer centricity: Alignment with Multi-Functional account teams
  • Operational excellence in chemical manufacturing
  • Selecting and implementing the right KPIs
  • Portfolio management and product mix optimization: Implications for commodity and specialty chemicals
  • Strategic sourcing options
  • Procurement and Logistics
  • Implementing a high efficiency supply chain system to support your product/service mix
  • Regulatory Compliance: Basic testing requirement, REACH, compliance with other chemical regulations
  • Accounting and finance
  • Financial statements
  • Analytical tools for financial performance: Selecting and implementing financial KPIs
  • Investment and projects appraisals
  • Costing and pricing methods
  • Financial planning
  • Budgets as management tool
 
  • Financial risk management and control: Market, customer credit, currency
  • Regulatory requirements and compliance
  • Presentation and discussing of the business case by the participants.
  • Conclusion and recommendations by the Senior Associate
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Faculty

Bettina
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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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19 May – 23 May 2025
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22 Sep – 26 Sep 2025
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07 Apr – 16 Apr 2025
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08 Apr, 14:00 – 17:00CET
09 Apr, 09:00 – 12:00CET
09 Apr, 14:00 – 17:00CET
14 Apr, 09:00 – 12:30CET
14 Apr, 14:00 – 18:00CET
15 Apr, 09:00 – 13:30CET
15 Apr, 14:00 – 19:00CET
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15 Oct, 14:00 – 17:00CET
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20 Oct, 14:00 – 18:00CET
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