Supply Chain Excellence Asia Pacific (Specialist - Operational Design)

Do you want to work with passionate teams, providing excellent business and digital services to the Asia Pacific region?

Do you want an open, supportive, and caring working environment?

Do you view your development needs seriously as we do?

If YES, then take your career to the #NextLevel with BASF !

Objectives of the Position

• Design and optimize GBC (Customers Cluster) services (based on Business Unit demands, legal requirements, Merger & Acquisitions, investments, strategic projects etc.)
• Conduct feasibility, impact and cost analysis of prospective new services in Supply Chain Service environment
• Identify any needs for optimization/process changes and lead the implementation drive
• Ensuring that all service models and service solution designs conform to strategic, architectural, governance and other corporate requirements.

Main Tasks

• Identify required models, methods and tools for Service Design
• Structure, group and prioritize business requirements
• Ensure usage of new information and communication technology to design or re-design supply chain services
• Evaluate options, make comparative studies and recommend appropriate approaches/models
• Develop new and extend existing services based on requirements from the business and align with service catalog
• Test new services prior to implementation
• Calculate cost of new service
• Deliver basis for technical concept in cooperation with Functional Experts
• Drive automation and digitalization of GBC services e.g. paperless document flows
• Drive integration of new businesses into GBC service structure e.g. resulting out of Merger & Acquisitions
• Manipulate/mine data from database tables using different business intelligence methods
• Interface with Global Stakeholders and Business Analysts across time zones to gather requirements by asking right questions, analyzing data, and drawing a conclusion by making and validating appropriate assumptions.
• Conduct deep dive analyses of business problems and formulate conclusions and recommendations; determine optimized courses of action
• Produce written recommendations and insights for key stakeholders to help shape solution design.
• Design, develop and maintain scalable and reliable analytical tools, dashboards, and metrics that drive key decisions in supply chain operations
• Simplify and automate reporting, metrics and dashboards; build solutions to have maximum scale and self-serviceability by users.
• Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation.

Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's in Data Analytic, Data Science, Bachelor’s in Logistics and Supply Chain Management or equivalent, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or Information Systems

Working Experience

• Minimum 3-5 years in Supply Chain Management / Logistics area

Technical & Professional Knowledge

• Supply Chain Management / process knowledge, strong SAP (Order to Cash & Transportation Management module), Business Intelligence Tools like SCI, Import Export Operations, Robotic Process Automation, foreign documentary trade,
• Analytical thinking, data science, machine learning capability, be able to advise solution based on the data analysis outcome, leading with key performance indicators, and good communication skills.
• Keen and willing to pick up new technologies, team player and proactively suggest any creative and innovative ideas.

BASF Asia-Pacific Service Centre was established in 2005. Located in Kuala Lumpur, the regional service hub has approximately 1,200 employees and growing. Focused on being a competency and digitalization driven hub, it also provides quality functional and know-how services in the areas of finance, controlling, human resources, real estate and facilities management, communications, environmental, health and safety, procurement, import-export order management, and information services to BASF companies and affiliates in the Asia Pacific region. BASF also has two other regional hubs located in Berlin, Germany, and Montevideo, Uruguay that cover the Europe and Americas regions.

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Around 112,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio comprises six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of €68.9 billion in 2023. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the U.S. Further information at www.basf.com.