Manager - Country Buyer

We are a leading chemical company, with the best teams developing intelligent solutions for our customers, and for a sustainable future.

We connect and develop people with diverse talents all over the world. For you, this means a variety of ways to progress.

Not only your performance but also your personality matter to us, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, orientation, and background.  At BASF, careers develop from opportunities. 

Main responsibilities

1. Leading Procurement in Country

• Setup and optimizing the Procurement Teams in Country
• Lead Indirect Procurement functionally and Disciplinarily, Direct and Logistics Procurement disciplinarily who are locating in Country to ensure smooth supply with competitive conditions and also in sustainable way.
• As Representative in Country, closely align with Country Management to steer procurement activities to be fully in line of local law and company compliance requirements.
• Ensuring safe and healthy operations through effective compliance and leadership with integrity in accordance with the BASF Code of Conduct, in your own procurement responsible organization. 

2. Sourcing for indirect procurement

• Handle open PRs of sites for assigned products and services of indirect procurement with defined thresholds, to do sourcing activity (source to contract – S2C)
• Imitate bidding process via SPS, negotiate with supplier on competitive price, payment term, delivery term etc. all commercial items
• Knowledge of local market intelligence and develop local potential supplier via working with related category buyer
• Down-payment process handling
• Paper contract & Outline agreement (OA) process handling
• Synergy capture & supplier management if needed cross category or cross sites

3. Internal business partner management (iBPRM) with sites

• Manage regular site service dialogs and drive site activity plans; represents Procurement to site and reviews performance with site management
• Support coordination of emergencies at sites and act as contact for local compliance topics
• General knowledge in all procurement classes and In-depth knowledge of site-related topics;
• Contact for Procurement organization for site-specific topics and drives site-specific measures and projects.

4. Field support for all category types

• Collaboration with global / regional teams on a more project-based approach on:
• Local supplier identification
• Supplier management and development
• Consolidation of demand information
• Supports category teams in a project-based way and with pre-aligned capacity

5. New investment project support

• Work close with project team to providing professional expertise, including market information, pre-costing and supplier recommendation to support new investment needs.
• In case of small capex projects, site buyer takes over the project management from procurement perspective.

6. EHS and Responsible Care: To implement the company's EHS standard and Responsible Care scheme during day-to-day work with external service providers.

7. Any other new initiative / Projects / topics comes with business and procurement due to market development and company strategy and local regulations.

Qualifications

• University degree, preferably in chemicals / Business / Economics or relevant.
• Minimum 5 years working experience and procurement experience is a plus
• Working at the business organization at a multi-group company for chemical industry is preferred.
• Good command of English both in verbal and written
• Good communication skills, ability to lead by influence, convincing skills.

Work location

• Emporium Office, Bangkok

BASF has been present in Thailand for more than 50 years. The company offers a wide range of products and solutions to support almost all the key industries in the country, including Agricultural Solutions, Intermediates and Process Catalysts, Monomers, Petrochemicals, Coatings, Dispersions and Resins, Performance Chemicals, Care Chemicals, Nutrition and Health, and Performance Materials. BASF in Thailand was established in 1966 and maintains its head office in Bangkok. It operates three production sites in Samutprakarn, Chonburi and Rayong, an Automotive Coatings Technical Competence Center, and a Performance Materials Technical Development Center in Samutprakarn. In 2023, BASF posted sales of €570 million to customers in Thailand and had 625 employees as of the end of the year. Further information is available on  www.basf.com/th.