Sami T.K. Palanisami

Angestellt, Commercial Manager EMEA, Milliken Europe BVBA
Gent, Belgium

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Business Management
B2B Sales & Marketing
EMEA Polymer & Chemical Industry Knowledge
Additives & Masterbatches
Value selling
Commercial and Technical management

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Sami T.K. Palanisami

  • Current 10 years and 9 months, since Sep 2015

    Commercial Manager EMEA

    Milliken Europe BVBA

    Business Unit Management of Plastic Additives Business for EMEA region. Responsible for Sales, Marketing, Technical Service & Development and Manufacturing teams.

  • 3 years and 6 months, Mar 2012 - Aug 2015

    Marketing & Sales Manager

    Milliken Europe BVBA

    Part of the management team, lead the Downstream sales & Marketing, market communication team. Defined and implemented downstream sales, marketing, regional pricing and growth strategies for the plastic additives business for EMEA region.

  • 2 years and 3 months, Dec 2009 - Feb 2012

    Market Manager Plastic Additives EMEA

    Milliken Europe BVBA

    Product line manager for Plastic Additives business. Coordinated growth and pricing strategy with regional sales and technical managers and teams, Defined Key account strategy for the major accounts. Worked on the developing regional (Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe & Russia) growth plan and implemented.

  • 2 years and 2 months, Nov 2007 - Dec 2009

    Key Account Manager

    Milliken Europe BVBA

    Managed major Polypropylene producer key accounts and One pack producers in Europe, Managed key growth projects with PP producer customers for Clarifiers & Nucleating agents and also responsible for the PP licencor's

  • 1 year and 9 months, Mar 2006 - Nov 2007

    Technical Service & Development Manager

    Milliken Europe BVBA

    Technical Service and application development responsible for major PP producers, brand owners and converter. Served as Technical Team leader for Milliken's Global Nucleation team

  • 1 year, Mar 2005 - Feb 2006

    Application Lab Manager

    Milliken Europe BVBA

    Application lab management including people, new equipment's purchase, lab resources planning . Value proposition development for the new products and technical support for the existing products.

  • 1 year and 5 months, Oct 2003 - Feb 2005

    Product Development Engineer

    ROWA GROUP

    New product development responsible for the Rowa group of companies - Romira GmbH Developed PPE/PA (Luranyl HT)blend for automotive applications - Halogen free PPE / PPO FR grades development - Mueller Plastics GmbH & Co. KG developed maleic anhydride grafted SEBS - Technical support for the Rowa group sales team for Germany and Northern Europe

  • 1 year and 7 months, Mar 2002 - Sep 2003

    Market Development Engineer

    Celanese

    - Internship, summer project, master thesis - Topas COC market & application development - Developed new blends of LLDPE / Topas COC for different film & packaging applications - Developed new testing equipment for static puncture resistance test - Market analysis for COC in film and packaging applications

  • 3 years and 6 months, Sep 1997 - Feb 2001

    Technical Sales Officer

    SRF Limited

    - Regional technical sales of Polyamide 6, Polyamide 66 and PPS polymers - New application development - Price and contract negotiations

Ausbildung von Sami T.K. Palanisami

  • 1 year and 10 months, Sep 2007 - Jun 2009

    General Business Management

    Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

    Marketing & Sales Negotiation Finance for Business Managers

  • 2 years and 1 month, Mar 2001 - Mar 2003

    Polymer Technology

    Fachhochschule Aalen

    Polymer Materials, Processing and Applications

  • 1 year and 1 month, Jun 1996 - Jun 1997

    Polymer Technology

    Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology

    Polymer Testing & Conversion Technology

  • 3 years and 10 months, Jun 1992 - Mar 1996

    Applied science

    Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Sprachen

  • English

    C2 (Verhandlungssicher / Muttersprachlich)

  • German

    B1-B2 (Gute Kenntnisse)

  • Dutch

    A1-A2 (Grundkenntnisse)

  • Tamil

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