Dirk Stals

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Vice President Purchasing at Bosal @ Bosal
Dirk Stals's Location
Lummen, Flemish Region, Belgium, Belgium
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About Dirk Stals

Building on my broad experience and leadership skills, I'm leading purchasing organizations to ensure availability, to optimize total cost of ownership and quality through strategic sourcing and effective purchasing processes. This involves working at enterprise leadership level, engaging with stakeholders, fostering strategic procurement category management and driving innovation. I managed direct and indirect spend over 1 billion €, across EMEA and globally.

Dirk Stals's Current Company Details
Bosal

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Vice President Purchasing at Bosal
Dirk Stals Work Experience Details
  • Bosal
    Vice President Purchasing
    Bosal May 2021 - Present
    Lummen, Be
    I'm responsible for managing the worldwide Purchasing organization of Bosal, with category managers, program buyers and plant sourcing managers in all locations. The organisation develops supplier relations to ensure availability of materials, equipment, services and to optimize TCO and cash flow, for legacy Bosal automotive divisions as well as the new energy division.
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  • Bosal
    Purchasing Director
    Bosal Jan 2021 - May 2021
    Lummen, Be
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  • Bridgestone Emia
    Director Indirect Procurement Emia
    Bridgestone Emia Jul 2018 - Dec 2020
    Zaventem, Flemish Region, Be
    As Procurement Director, I am responsible for the transformation of Indirect Procurement towards a category management organization capable of delivering market-benchmark business benefits on savings and cash, by leveraging supplier know-how and innovation. Total spend under control for EMIA is > 1 billion €.
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  • Ideal Standard International Nv
    Indirect Procurement Director, Supply Chain
    Ideal Standard International Nv Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
    1935 Zaventem, Brussels, Be
    Leading an indirect purchasing organization on a spend of 200 million € for logistics, utilities & energy, packaging, maintenance services & materials and GENEX, across all sites in Europe.
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  • Huntsman
    Purchasing Director - Eame Indirects
    Huntsman Oct 2011 - Jun 2017
    The Woodlands, Tx, Us
    Transforming, consolidating and leading an EMEA based purchasing organization around strategic categories. The objectives are cost savings and reliable purchasing operations on a spend of 680 million $ for services, materials, equipment & engineering.Collaborate with leadership of businesses and plants to develop and execute sourcing strategies and action plans.Engaging with key suppliers to achieve objectives and develop long-term supplier relationships.Delivering > 20m$ cost savings per year by a combination of competition and supplier consolidation.Transformed the purchasing organization by a combination of centralization, consolidation of purchasing categories and more effective purchasing operations to deliver > 30% productivity improvement.Act as a CoE by leading a cluster of cross-functional teams to deliver a TCO reduction target of > 10%.Leading the Purchasing Academy to develop purchasing competencies across all purchasing streams.
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  • Amcor Flexibles
    Group Procurement Manager Indirects Europe & Americas
    Amcor Flexibles Sep 2009 - Sep 2011
    Zurich, Ch
    In the frame of a major acquisition, consolidated and managed a purchasing team to deliver a challenging synergy savings target on > 600 million € of logistics, energy, graphical chain tooling, packaging, facilities services and MRO.Interact with business unit leaders and plant general managers to align on targets and sourcing strategies.Developed category strategies allowing Amcor to take maximum benefit of its market footprint.Well on track to deliver a 3-year synergy savings target of > 40 million $.
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  • Procter & Gamble
    Purchasing Group Manager Employee Services - Emea
    Procter & Gamble Aug 2008 - Feb 2010
    Cincinnati, Ohio, Us
    Managed a purchasing category team for 300 million $ of employee benefits, HR services and travel.Agreed sourcing plans with internal clients to deliver cost reduction and internal user satisfaction KPI’s.Developed and negotiated a global air travel sourcing strategy to reduce total cost and improve service levels.
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  • Procter & Gamble
    Purchasing Group Manager Facilities Services - Emea
    Procter & Gamble Mar 2006 - Jul 2008
    Cincinnati, Ohio, Us
    Managed a purchasing category team for 300 million $ of outsourced facilities services across all EMEA sites.Managed the strategic supplier relationship and commercial governance of a x-EMEA facilities services outsourcing provider to ensure delivery of > 10% cost savings.
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  • Procter & Gamble
    Purchasing Sourcing Center Leader - W. Europe
    Procter & Gamble Sep 2003 - Feb 2006
    Cincinnati, Ohio, Us
    Managed a purchasing team for a geographic cluster of 18 plants and offices in Benelux, France, Iberia, Italy.In addition, delivered 20% savings and 30% inventory reduction by developing a global strategy for 250 million $ of materials.Managed a near-shoring project of purchasing transactional operations to C. Europe delivering > 1 million $ savings.
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  • Procter & Gamble
    Regional Plant Purchasing Group Manager - Emea
    Procter & Gamble Aug 1999 - Aug 2003
    Cincinnati, Ohio, Us
    Managed a team to improve effectiveness of the purchasing function in all EMEA manufacturing sites and offices.Successful in convincing plant managers to invest in an effective purchasing team and adopt standard processes.Organize organization development activities incl. training of sourcing skills and transactional processes.Developed and deployed regional purchasing standards and processes to maximize value and compliance.
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  • Procter & Gamble
    Plant Purchasing Manager
    Procter & Gamble Aug 1994 - Jul 1999
    Cincinnati, Ohio, Us
    Managed the plant purchasing office in charge of buying 20 million $ of services, temporary labor, materials.Developed a competitive supply base for investment projects (equipment & construction) leading to better use of funds.
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  • Procter & Gamble
    Plant Project Engineer
    Procter & Gamble Aug 1990 - Jul 1994
    Cincinnati, Ohio, Us
    Managed a project team to deliver investment projects for production processes, buildings, utilities, plant facilities.Scope definition, cost estimating, budget control and construction management to deliver > 5 million $ of CAPEX projects in time and in budget.
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  • Procter & Gamble
    Production Shift Manager
    Procter & Gamble May 1989 - Jul 1990
    Cincinnati, Ohio, Us
    Managed a production crew of > 30 packing operators and quality controllers (in 3 shifts).Worked with maintenance team and operators to improve process reliability > 85%.
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  • Philips Consumer Electronics
    Developer
    Philips Consumer Electronics Aug 1986 - Apr 1989
    Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl
    Development of control systems for laseroptic disc players (CD Video).
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Dirk Stals Skills

Strategic Sourcing Global Sourcing Procurement Supply Chain Purchasing Supply Chain Management Contract Negotiation Sourcing Outsourcing Logistics Management Supply Management Leadership Supplier Negotiation Supply Chain Optimization Manufacturing Supplier Development Cross Functional Team Leadership Change Management Lean Manufacturing Fmcg Negotiation Purchase Management Organization Re Structuring Business Strategy Fast Moving Consumer Goods Project Management

Dirk Stals Education Details

  • Ku Leuven
    Ku Leuven
    Engineering - Electronic Systems & Automation
  • Aangenomen College, Sint-Truiden
    Aangenomen College, Sint-Truiden
    Humanities Latin-Mathematics

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Dirk Stals works for Bosal

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Dirk Stals's current role is Vice President Purchasing at Bosal.

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Dirk Stals attended Ku Leuven, Aangenomen College, Sint-Truiden.

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