Explain to us your day-to-day management.
The tasks of a Production Manager are:
Coordination of the plant personnel in charge of 3 shifts.
Production planning according to the commercial demands together with Gemma Parramon (Commercial Director responsible for the plant).
Calculation of production costs following commercial demands.
Selection of raw materials and processing with the warehouse for the transfer of these to the plant.
Solve different problems that arise with the productions and plant machinery, together with the plant and maintenance personnel.
Registration of manufacturing orders of plant products.
Analysis of production costs and production yields as well as solving incidences detected by our QC about the final products in order to reach the desired quality standards.
Management and processing of finished material for transfer to our warehouses.
Management of samples to QC.
Development of new products that may be of commercial interest.
Development of taylor mades.
Coordination and planning with R&D-Biotech of bionat production as well as participating in the development of new bionats.
Supervision of compliance with preventive maintenance, cleanliness and order in the plant, as well as the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of the different products.

What differentiates Ventós in the market?
What stands out most about Ventós as a differential level with other companies is:
The large number of aromatic chemical products that Ventós works with for the perfumery/cosmetics and food industry.
The companies represented by Ventos such as BASF, Firmenich or IFF that manufacture high quality and leading products.
The great development of international subsidiaries that makes delivery times short and communication with the customer more fluid.
At Ventos Barcelona, its different departments with very experienced staff make us work in a very efficient and customer oriented way. I highlight our main warehouse that every day prepares the different orders in a very efficient way, our quality control with a lot of experience, our sales team always looking for 100% customer satisfaction, our regulatory department always adapting products to new regulations, our IT team that have developed a software tailored to the needs of Ventós, our purchasing team, administration, accounting and HR, also, with extensive experience.
At the level of my department, I think it was a wise decision around 2005 to create a production plant betting on natural products. This allows us to have a more extensive knowledge of natural products and essential oils, to be closer to the different perfumers to satisfy their concerns about different ingredients and to be able to present new products developed in the plant that substantially improve what is already on the market at trade fairs. I also think it is a success to have created departments such as R D-BIOTECH for the development of new generation natural ingredients, as well as the LABAPP department focused on the creation of exclusive aromas.

What do you like most about your work?
What I like most about my job is being able to work with so many ingredients that convey scent, color, memories, sensations, dreams.
When we develop a new ingredient that brings distinctive and innovative notes, it gives me enormous satisfaction.
In the end, I have made Ventós a way of life. After all, in life you are what you love, not what loves you...

Of the 3,000 products we have in stock, which is your favorite?
It is very difficult to choose one ingredient among so many wonderful ingredients that we have in stock.
Among the natural ones, I love our patchouli coeur with that characteristic smell of damp earth on rainy days. I love the smell of Iris, its irones transmit me a sense of well-being, peace. Our lemon Spain concentrate 5x is also wonderful, the ability to make you salivate.
As for synthetics, I love our Gamma methyl ionone 95, Amber Xtreme or Timbersilk.

What smells take you back to your childhood?
The smell of cedarwood brings me back to my crayons as a child. Citrus such as Lemon, Tangerine or Orange essential oils or sweet aromas such as Vanillin, Ethyl Maltol bring me back to the ice cream I ate as a child.
Some bionat esters that we manufacture in the plant also take me back to jelly beans as a child.
The smell of Bergamot takes me back to the first colognes I wore as a child.

Your ideal vacation destination? What would your perfect vacation be like?
I love visiting capitals and cities with beautiful historic buildings.
The trip that is still pending is to visit the west coast of the USA. It has always fascinated me since I was a child. Many movies and series that I have liked a lot have been developed with sets of the west coast.
My perfect vacation consists of walking all day long through charming cities, discovering beautiful corners, and visiting museums in those cities.

Main trait of your character?
I consider myself a very humble, hard-working and tenacious person.

What style of music do you listen to? Favorite singer?
Music is one of the basic pillars of my life, as a child I learned to play a little guitar and drums, and even played drums in a band for years.
During the years of my life I have been transforming and evolving musically, but I have always had quite particular tastes.
During these last years, I feel a real devotion for emotive pop with baritone singers.
My favorite band at the moment is The National. I love Matt Berninger's voice. I also like Mishima a lot. I love David Carabén and currently I listen a lot to a group called Fontaines DC and the last two albums recorded by Leonard Cohen, they are wonderful.

What is your favorite hobby?
I like to play paddle tennis once or twice a week. I have also taken a liking to play chess lately.

If a film director offered you to make a movie about your life, which actor or actress would you like to play your character?
Without a doubt, Bryan Cranston, it gives you a strange emotional feeling to put on trial on a scale of morals vs. ethics.

Would you prefer to travel to the past or to the future?
I think traveling to the past is dangerous, I would travel to the future. With so many technological innovations I would like to know what the world will be like in 20 years for example.

Explain to us your day-to-day management.
My day-to-day life is very dynamic. The hours at work fly by. I manage both internal and external incidents, customer and colleague requests ... I interact with all departments of the company. I strive to maintain external certifications. Both FSSC 22000 and ISO 22000. And as a novelty, this year, we will be certified in FAMI-QS. This will help to strengthen the sales to customers who are engaged in the manufacture of feed additives or animal feed.

What differentiates Ventós in the market?
The large portfolio of products we have in stock. The flexibility and speed of delivery. The geographical location, Ventós Barcelona is very well located by land, sea and air, which allows us to deliver and receive products in an agile way. The fact that the product is spread all over the world thanks to its 7 subsidiaries is an advantage to serve customers very quickly and locally. Without forgetting the human resources, the team of people behind it. And our own analysis laboratory with personnel with more than 25 years of experience, which generates trust and loyalty to our customers impossible.

What do you like most about your work?
Many things!!! To be able to dedicate myself to what I like. The type of product we work with. Dealing with staff of large companies, both customers and suppliers. And that every day new challenges arise and it is a never-ending process of facing new adversities.

What would you mix a Gin and tonic with?
With Juniperberry without a doubt. Depending on the result you want to obtain, with acid, sweet or citric notes, you could add cardamom, juniper, cassia, cinnamon, badiane, orange or pepper and it would still be very tasty.

What smells take you back to your childhood?
Undoubtedly the cypress. When I went to school I used to pass four times a day through a street with many cypress trees. Also Citrus, Lemon and Orange. My grandparents had lemon and orange trees at home. And it reminds me of them.

Your ideal vacation destination? What would your perfect vacation be like?
Any destination. I love to travel, to know cultures, customs, buildings.... And if they have a part of history, they call my attention even more.

Main trait of your character?
I am cheerful and talkative. I am also sincere, clear, involved... and stubborn!

What style of music do you listen to? Favorite singer?
It really depends on the mood. Mostly rock/pop. Estopa.

If a film director offered you to make a movie about your life, which actor or actress would you like to play your character?
Scarlett Johansson, we are the same age and we were born on the same day. Funny, huh? I think we are nothing else alike, hehehe.

Would you prefer to travel to the past or to the future?
Difficult answer: to the past, if only I could live longer! And who knows, I could mend mistakes....

Explain to us your day-to-day management.
As Warehouse Manager, I manage from the daily reception of aromatic chemicals and essential oils at Ventós to their dispatch to customers and our subsidiaries. I must have a complete vision of our stock, minimizing and reporting possible incidents. From the warehouse, we must ensure that every product that is loaded or unloaded in our facilities complies with all our quality protocols, which involve all departments of Ernesto Ventós.

What differentiates Ventós in the market?
The a la carte service. The customer asks, we respond instantly. Nothing is impossible.

What would you highlight the most about your team?
The dedication and commitment, whitout a doubt. I am very proud of them.

What do you like most about your work?
Immediacy. Having to make immediate decisions. Speed.

What is the base of your favourite perfume?
Oriental notes, Sandalwood, Cedarwood and of course, Vanilla

What smells take you back to your childhood?
I had a very urban childhood, but I am still transported by the smell of wet earth after the rain, and the smell of vanilla from when my mother made large quantities of flan for me and my siblings.

Your ideal vacation destination? What would your perfect vacation be like?
I have two ideal destinations, either lost in Scotland or some Nordic country, between forests and mist or very, very quiet in a coastal village in Tarragona.

Main trait of your character?
Determination.

What style of music do you listen to? Favorite singer?
Melodic. I like warm female voices, Luz Casal, Rosana.

What is your favorite hobby?
I have no time to waste.

If a film director offered you to make a movie about your life, which actor or actress would you like to play your character?
Paul Newman or Marlon Brando would do well.

Would you prefer to travel to the past or to the future?
You can only travel to the future.

Explain to us your day-to-day management.
Coordinate the whole team that manages the American continent with important direct clients, distributions of prestigious international producers, and of course the 4 subsidiaries that we have in the region.

What differentiates Ventós in the market?
Apart from the wide range of products we have in stock and the represented companies we are proud to distribute, the options and service we can offer to our customers, either locally, or from the head office, and even from any other location where we are present, such as China, which today is a major producer country of our industry. In short, a truly global distribution.

What do you like most about your work?
Being in contact with different countries, mentalities and cultures is very enriching and opens your mind to other ways of doing and thinking that complement you.

Of the 3,000 products we have in stock, which is your favorite?
Ambroxan. It is a synthetic chemical that I was able to work closely with in the past and resembles a precious natural product of animal origin, Ambergris, which comes from the sperm whale, its bile secretion after digesting squid that is part of its diet. Its smell is sweet, earthy, marine and animalic, a wonder of nature

What smells take you back to your childhood?
I grew up in the Baix Empordà, with the Mediterranean and the Tramontana (north wind), the smell of the sea, rosemary and cypress.

Your ideal vacation destination? What would your perfect vacation be like?
None and all at the same time, my romantic dream from my youth was always to sail around the world on a sailboat, of course it should be quite a "long" vacation.

Main trait of your character?
Optimistic, bold without disregarding prudence, tolerant, generous and conciliatory.

What style of music do you listen to? Favorite singer?
Pop-rock from the 80's, favorite band Dire Straits.

What is your favorite hobby?
Sailing.

If a film director offered you to make a movie about your life, which actor or actress would you like to play your character?
Robert de Niro.

Would you prefer to travel to the past or to the future?
To the past. The Middle Ages have always fascinated me, although I don't know if I would regret it because of the harsh living conditions in some cases.
About the future, I prefer the surprise of seeing it coming and not discovering it in advance.