Digital Hub Kuala Lumpur attracts, inspire and develop diverse talents who will elevate BASF’s digital journey.
As one of the world’s largest chemical companies, BASF is on a mission to create chemistry with a sustainable future. The Digital Hub Kuala Lumpur, alongside four other Digital Hubs across the globe are part of the technology powerhouse driving our vision. Join our organization and make an impact in an inclusive and diverse work environment. We value individual differences and provide opportunities for you to contribute your unique perspective towards our collective goals.
Objectives
BASF’s Business Process Integration (BPI) team provides and supports digital solutions for B2B integrations with external partners through a variety of systems and processes within the BASF’s architectural landscape. BPI is considered a strategic tool to digitalize processes and enable seamless exchange of data between applications, businesses, customers and partners in real-time.
In this role, you will focus on consulting representatives of BASF businesses and BASF partners on integrating business processes primarily in the Purchase-to-Pay process area, including respective mappings.
Main Tasks
The Solution Consultant provides customized integration solutions for internal partners and external partners via EDI, API, Micro Services, AI Agents, and similar technologies.
The Solution Consultant supports our internal (SAP ERP and Satellite Systems) and external partners to specify their requirements and translates those into best-in-class solution designs based on technical and business process knowledge, aligned with process design and architecture. The consultant will be responsible for supplemental tasks in the daily operation, e.g. operational support (2nd/3rd level), issue resolving, quality assurance, and business interaction. The role does also include assignments to support comprehensive business integration projects.
The Solution Consultant works in a global, international setting, interacting with team members in all other regions to provide sustainable digital solutions for our partners.
Additional work aspects: strategic contribution to IT architecture and cross-process digitalization efforts, interact with connectivity solutions by supporting API, micro services, generative AI and other industries relevant technical developments.
The business processes in scope of this role are: Purchase-to-Pay
Job Requirements
Education
- Master's degree in computer science, business or STEM major with 4-6 years of IT or related field experience OR
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, business or STEM major with 6-8 years of IT or related field experience OR
- Diploma or comparable training with 6+ years of professional experience in IT and/or business areas
Working Experience
- Minimum 4 years related working experience
- Experiencing Agile way of working or agile implementation approach
- Work experience in an international company is a plus
Technical & Profressional Knowledge
- Consult and support internal and external partners when dealing with complex processes and IT application questions.
- Good business knowledge in various application and process areas, esp. Purchase to Pay (Purchase Orders, Confirmations, Goods Receipts, Migo Movements, Invoices).
- Conducts and support the technical implementation of the B2B Integration to external partners
- Showing strong transactional experience in SAP R3 and/or S4/HANA (MM Procurement - SD)
- Ability to work and navigate in SAP middleware platforms (PO, CPI Integration Suite)
- Provides a deep technical understanding of standard connectivity messages EDI-APIs and programming protocols (supporting e.g. iDocs, XML, EDIFACT, JSON, UI etc.)
- Consult and support IT analysis (process and/or data), mentoring, modelling, solution design and optimization of related business processes and models
- Execute studies in preliminary stages of projects, including evaluation of existing or new solutions
- Ability to support strategic planning and realization
- Can assume roles as project manager and related tasks
- Coordinate and execute prototyping, configuration and testing of solutions based on BASF requirements, while ensuring quality and security aspects
- Provide structured acceptance, analysis and description of solutions and/or concepts
- Support and/or steer the formulation of more complex costs estimates for efforts spend solution design, testing and implementation of business solutions
- Provides Business support and training (processes, tools, reports, etc.) where required
- Provide guidance and structure to enable day2day operational support incl, advising external support resources
- Extensive knowledge of standard connectivity messages, related business processes and applications
- Familiar with Azure DevOps (or GitHub or similar)
- You can demonstrate fluent communication skills in English (spoken and written)
- Well-developed sense of teamwork in an international team with strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication and conflict resolution skills.
- Business consulting skill with a focus on value generation
- Ambitious, proactive & entrepreneurial character
- Highly developed sense of responsibility
- High customer- and innovation-orientation
- Time flexibility to work across different time zones
- Experiences as project manager
- Experiences in strategic planning and realization
- Experiences in AI Agents and AI based communication
- Certifications in Agile, SAP S/4
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 is committed to empowering its employees to pursue their interests and explore emerging technologies. By investing in top-quality tools and promoting cross-functional collaboration, we encourage our team members to drive positive change within our organization. Come join us and be a part of our digitalization journey.
Further Information at https://go.basf.net/careers_digitalhubkl