Beate Chatelain
Export Logistics Coordinator
Beate Chatelain, in her capacity of Export Coordinator, operates at the end of the logistics process for the organization and follow-up of shipments from Verlinde production plants in France, Germany, Finland and China to end customers or integrator partners. Beate Chatelain works especially with important export markets, i.e. Asia, Africa, America and the Middle East. As no two orders are alike, Beate checks packaging, dispatches the appropriate invoices then arranges and coordinates carriage for a direct shipment to the customer or their forwarding agent.
My function
Beate Chatelain manages relations with forwarding agents and if needs be negotiates carriage costs with them and ensures the traceability of goods. She also organizes goods inspections, obligatory for orders bound for Africa, for instance. The most fastidious part of the job involves the complex preparation of letters of credit dossiers (financial documentation beween banks) to guarantee the payment of goods when shipped to “risk prone” countries.
Beate Chatelain first worked for Verlinde temporarily when an employee took maternity leave but when the post finally became vacant in 2015 she was contacted and offered the job on a permanent basis due to her specific know-how and her profile. Beate Chatelain is German, trilingual and enjoys using her mother tongue for her work. With her inquisitive frame of mind, Beate finds diverse contacts fulfilling and she enjoys working with people from anywhere in the world.
My hobby
Beate Chatelain’s openness to the world is reflected by her frequent travels to discover not only towns and their architecture but also wide open spaces and landscapes, anywhere in the world, more often than not with her family. She appreciates being immersed in the different cultures and the so different culinary traditions and environments of each country.
Beate takes great pleasure in taking photos during her travels and these are given appropriate prominence in albums that she decorates herself. She also compiles inventive scrapbooks of the family that are given as gifts or kept as permanent mementos.
Beate also likes reading and enjoys novels of all kinds but preferably in German, one way of keeping the contact with her native country alive and well. In any case, she always finds her trips back to her land of birth to recharge her batteries very pleasurable.