Women in Tanks: Carin van Straten-Lagerberg

Carin van Straten-Lagerberg, senior sales manager at Vopak Netherlands, shares her passion for supporting a sustainable future in tank storage [caption id="attachment_61477" align="alignleft" width="201"] Carin van Straten-Lagerberg, senior sales manager at Vopak Netherlands[/caption] After working within commercial trading operations at Shell for almost 16 years, Carin van Straten-Lagerberg decided it was time for a change. ‘I was on the customer side for a long time, and I wanted to explore the commercial side from a service providing angle instead,’ she recalls. ‘Vopak is an esteemed company, and one of the largest independent storage providers. Famous for its tanks, infrastructure, complex operations and large amount of customers, I was excited to embark on this next chapter in my career.’ In her day-to-day as a senior sales manager at Vopak, van Straten- Lagerberg is commercially responsible for all the fuel oil stored at Vopak’s Europoort terminal in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Her role focuses on investigating market analysis, as well as nurturing her close alignment with internal stakeholders to drive growth and efficiency for the customers and the company. ‘I...