GDF/AF - Solution Consultant System Integration (EDI, Order-to-Invoice) (M/F/D)

Main Tasks / Scope of Work

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 
Focus on the minimum requirements to carry out the work – 
you might want to point out “additional plus/nice to have skills” that are not mandatory
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
Work 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 & Professional Knowledge (mandatory and nice to have)    Our main requirements:
    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)
 
Personal traits:
    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

Nice-to-Have:
    Experiences as project manager
    Experiences in strategic planning and realization
    Experiences in AI Agents and AI based communication
    Certifications in Agile, SAP S/4
Language Proficiency        Fluent spoken and written English proficiency