Sourcing Director – Raw Materials, Packaging and Business services Procurement at Borealis Polymers NV
Limbourg, Walloon Region, Belgium
Borealis Polymers NV
Procurement Manager
January 2015 to Present
Beringen - Belgium
Borealis Polymers N.V.
Senior Group Lead Buyer Raw Materials & team leader
2003 to Present
Philips
Competence Team Leader
1997 to 2003
N.V. Philips Industrial Activities
Chemical process engineer
1986 to 1997
Responsible for procurement of co-monomers & silanes and team leader within the raw material & packaging sourcing team. Co-monomers like 1-butene, 1-hexene, 1-octene, acrylates, VAM Responsible for procurement of co-monomers & silanes and team leader within the raw material & packaging sourcing team. Co-monomers like 1-butene, 1-hexene, 1-octene, acrylates, VAM
What company does Dirk Knuysen work for?
Dirk Knuysen works for Borealis Polymers NV
What is Dirk Knuysen's role at Borealis Polymers NV?
Dirk Knuysen is Procurement Manager
What industry does Dirk Knuysen work in?
Dirk Knuysen works in the Chemicals industry.
Who are Dirk Knuysen's colleagues?
Dirk Knuysen's colleagues are Gillberg Sandra, Detlef Wald, Christer Svanberg, Agnieszka Baj, Farideh Safari, Mikko Ilmari Niskanen, Martin Morelli, Lars Bessems, Maria Ciliberti, and Rémy Pouppeville
📖 Summary
20 Years of experience in global strategic procurement for a wide range of commodities in several industries. Managing a team for raw material procurement across Europe for chemical products. Specialties: organic peroxides, silanes, silicone based additives and master batches, co-monomers, solvents, electronic & mechanical components, adhesives & greases, MRO, capital investments and technical services.Procurement Manager @ Responsible for procurement of co-monomers & silanes and team leader within the raw material & packaging sourcing team. Co-monomers like 1-butene, 1-hexene, 1-octene, acrylates, VAM From January 2015 to Present (10 months) Beringen - BelgiumSenior Group Lead Buyer Raw Materials & team leader @ Responsible for setting up and execution of global sourcing strategies for co-monomers, silanes, peroxides and co-catalysts. Procurement manager with European based team for buying of raw materials in petrochemical industry. From 2003 to Present (12 years) Competence Team Leader @ Responsible for setting up and execution of sourcing strategy for chemcials, electrical and electro-mechanical parts for the production of the DVD & CDRW modules. From 1997 to 2003 (6 years) Chemical process engineer @ Process development of the glue processes for the optical components and IC’s Setting up of total supply chain and cost of non quality approach for chemicals. From 1986 to 1997 (11 years) Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry @ Professional Bachelor in Chemistry HRITO in Sint-Truiden From 1982 to 1985 Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege te Diest Dirk Knuysen is skilled in: Catalysis, Component, Polymers, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Management, Raw Materials, Continuous Improvement, R&D, Plastics, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management
Extraversion (E), Intuition (N), Thinking (T), Judging (J)
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