Tove Andersen

As the Head of Supply Chain, Tove has global responsibility for procurement, supply chain operations and IT in Yara International. Having assumed the position in February 2016, Tove's main focus after the taking over has been to create a well functioning team and set direction by launching a transformation program which will deliver significant EBITDA improvements for Yara the next years. Tove considers this to be her biggest success over the past 6 months. This transformation program includes new improved tools and digital interfaces in the supply chain area, a global procurement transformation to create a world class procurement organization and significant changes within IT to bring IT and business closer together to enable quicker response to the digital driven challenges and opportunities. Her most biggest challenge over the past 6 months, has been in optimizing Yara's intergrated business model and in leveraging Yara's scale in both production and commercial segments. Our task is to optimize Yara’s integrated business model and leverage our scale in both procurement and supply chain operations. Yara is a result of significant smaller M&A activities resulting in that all plants are slightly different and all markets operate somewhat different processes. This creates significant challenges to take out the full potential of scale effects and drive process improvements in our operations. This often means speed and agility in developing new solutions can be challenging. Collaboration with the other segments and functions are key in order to address this and harmonize across plants and markets to take out the value potential.