AP Trading Center (Manager I - Expert)

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

The Asia Pacific Trading Center (APTC) creates a focal point to connect suppliers all around the globe to all Asian countries. It handles intra-company purchase orders and hence acts as a virtual trading organization providing a high degree of control over import / export supply chain activities for regional business units. It creates substantial tax advantages for our organization.   The Expert will ensure to implement the enhanced efficient and effective process in all AP countries for all business units and to continue improving and harmonizing the system process in the future. This new position will report to the Head of APTC regional head.

Main Tasks

• Process Expert for processes required in APTC operations and services
• Provide classroom training and hands on support to APTC team members
• Using Lean techniques ensure that day to day processing is as efficient and effective as possible and maximizes usage of global systems for communicating information to all parties involved in the process. 
• Work closely with country and Hub organization to ensure input to APTC are accurate and contain appropriate information for efficient and effective processing, ensuring compliance and minimizing of risk
• Work with Regional Process Experts to generate change requests when improvements to system functionality are required
• Provide the necessary support for Business Release Management ensuring successful knowledge transfer to APTC users as well as coordinating all user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Using the non-conformance system, identify areas of improvement and work with the concerned parties to ensure corrective measures are put in place
• Coordinate with Operations Lead to address improvement opportunities specific to their businesses
• Participate in projects representing APTC and its processes
• Facilitate the sharing and deployment of best practices to improve the cooperation and overall performance across the region

Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Supply Chain Management

Working Experience

• Minimum 5-8 years in SCM / Logistics area of which minimum 3 years of management experience within supply chain environment.  Demonstrated Lean Six Sigma project experience with success results.

Technical & Professional Knowledge

• Supply chain management / process knowledge, SAP (SD module) experience, operational order management, foreign documentary trade, analytical thinking, leading with key performance indicators, good communication skills.  Able to work independently and effectively with various level of people. Strong in planning, coordination, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills. Strong analytical skill plus cultural awareness. Flexible and self-initiated with open and innovative mindset

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.