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Vice President of Human Resources

PQ Corporation a leading worldwide producer of specialty inorganic performance chemicals and catalysts.

Strong visionary and international business acumen skills. Accomplished at developing corporate strategic plans to maximize world-wide sales and profits in line with the corporate strategy with strong compliance record. Excellent ability to create a global organizational structure that is consistent with achieving long term corporate goals. This includes working with key operations and staff leaders to ensure that their structures are aligned with the future needs and strategy of the company and obtaining strong new talent. Highly collaborative member of the executive team capable of persuading very strong willed global leaders to work towards a common goal while building a high level of trust and solid long lasting relationships capable of moving the business forward. Extraordinary successful Labor Relations track record. Very skilled at developing and leading worldwide union prevention efforts, de-certification campaigns and grievance avoidance efforts as well as developing and implementing strong successful Labor strategies for represented sites. Strong negotiation and arbitration skills.