Oscar Silvius

Global Procurement Director at Bakelite Synthetics

Pijnacker, South Holland, Netherlands

About

Allround commercial professional with 20+ years experience in petrochemical industry, dealing with and working for first class companies.

Experience

  • Bakelite Synthetics (Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands)
    • Global Procurement Director
      Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

      Global management professional team covering raw materials for our plants

    • Global Procurement Manager
      May 2021 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Responsible for strategic raw materials incl phenol, methanol and urea. North America and Europe ~1 bln USD spend.

  • Sr Commodity Manager at Hexion Inc.
    2014 - May 2021 · 7 yrs 5 mos

    Procurement > 300 mln USD spend of various commodities and specialty chemicals for our EU plants: a.o. phenol, acetone, methanol, melamine, urea, slack wax, nonene, carbon monoxide, acetylene. Member EU Business Team EU Forest Products Division and Global Versatics.

  • Oil Trader at Interchem Pte Ltd
    2006 - 2014 · 8 yrs

    Setting up of a professional run Risk Management department for our worldwide gasoline components and petrochemical desks in Singapore and Rotterdam; structuring various physical and paper plays; trading in commodity derivatives (futures, swaps, options); trading physical oil related products and petrochemicals; Financial Risk Management; Gasoline blending

  • DSM (9 yrs 5 mos)
    • Product Sales Manager
      2003 - 2006 · 3 yrs

      Marketing & sales of acrylonitrile; responsible for all areas outside West-Europe; focus on customer intimacy, responsiveness, service, including trading deep-sea material from third parties. Furthermore responsible for purchase of strategic raw materials

    • General Manager jv with Repsol
      2002 - 2003 · 1 yr

      Joint venture between DSM and Repsol: marketing & sales of acrylonitrile; responsible for all areas outside West-Europe

    • Products Trader and Risk Manager
      Sep 1998 - Dec 2001 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Trading in cracker feedstocks (naphtha, LPG, condensates) and hedging price exposure on financial market with financial derivatives, implementation mandate for hedging the cracker margin; gained extensive knowledge about trading dynamics and financial derivatives market within the oil markets