Jennifer Stroh

About Jennifer Stroh

Jennifer S. Stroh, PhD, is an experienced leader and innovator with a strong background in strategy, sales, marketing, and technical service within the specialty chemicals and materials science industries.• Extensive leadership in specialty chemicals: Jennifer has held senior roles at Orion S.A, including Vice President of Specialty Americas, where she built and led a diverse sales and marketing team, achieving record sales and revenue growth from 2021 to 2022. She also implemented global solutions to optimize team performance. • Strategic sales and marketing expertise: She transformed sales and marketing teams post-COVID, developed robust growth strategies based on market data, and grew coatings volumes by 180%. She also established a technical service laboratory to accelerate customer qualifications.• Technical and supply chain experience: At TPC Group, Jennifer enhanced technical service functions and managed supply chain planning to optimize inventory and profitability across multiple product lines and plant locations. • Global supply chain and R&D background: She planned global production and inventory for Sekisui Specialty Chemicals, built a global technical service team for Polyvinyl Alcohol, and contributed to product innovation with patents and new copolymer development during her earlier roles.

Experience

1. Vice President of Specialty Americas

   Orion S.A.

   May 2024 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Built a diverse, multi-cultural sales team with experience levels from 30+ years in sales to first year sales managers along with marketing, pricing, PM and customer service. Coached marketing team to develop strategic plan with executable actions and path forward by maintaining close customers relationships and responding to key market trends. Operated as a change agent to optimize team performance. Sought insights from the team on problem areas, researched potential solutions, gained alignment, obtained capital funding through bid process and implemented global solutions.(Sales Forecast Platform). The specialty team hit the highest sales and margin targets in history, reaching over 25% growth from 2021 to 2022 through new sales contracting strategy and growth project success. Maintained the new revenue level in subsequent years. Crafted motivational goals for team members and developed targets to ensure the personal success of direct reports are matched by the success of our business unit. Set budget for fixed costs and sales targets, including volume and margin targets.

Education

• Clemson University

  Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering

  2004 — 2008

• Clemson University

  B.S., Chemistry

  1999 — 2003

Skills

• Polymers
• Polymer Chemistry
• Materials Science
• Chemistry
• R&D
• Spectroscopy
• Polymer Science
• Coatings
• Organic Chemistry
• Team Management
• Manufacturing
• Six Sigma
• Chemical Engineering
• Powder X-Ray Diffraction
• Laboratory
• Materials
• Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Business Travel
• Leadership
• Supply Chain Management
• Characterization
• Process Simulation
• Design of Experiments
• Afm
• Process Optimization
• Process Engineering
• Root Cause Analysis
• Nanotechnology
• Application Development
• International Project Management
• International Business
• Project Management
• Thin Films
• Product Development
• Ftir
• Uv/Vis
• Adhesives
• Nmr
• Research and Development (R
• Uv/Vis Spectroscopy