Responsibilities: 

• Being part of a diverse global team and working with colleagues on complex IT projects in the Manufacturing area delivering crucial solutions to businesses, functions, and operations across BASF 

• Consulting, implementing, and supporting the full lifecycle of our products globally with focus on SAP PP & PP/PI 

• Leading IT project manufacturing workstreams and performing all required workstream tasks from requirement engineering till after go live tasks 

• Understand and analyze business requirements and translate them to system solutions by conducting functional design, development, deployment, modelling and configuring of the system as well as setting up master data. 

• Willingness to learn, adopt and drive to new technologies and tools 

• Ensure close team collaboration to leverage available knowledge sessions. 

• Identifying and implementing improvements in each project and advising the management team in an emphatic and competent manner. 

• Actively pull and take over tasks and work self-organized. 

Requirements: 

• A university degree in the area of computer science or similar 

• Several years of experience as IT consulting for IT projects in production environment for chemical or processing industry, with strong customer focus. 

• Extended expertise as SAP PP & PP/PI consultant is a must (PP/PI must include expertise also in PP planning). 

• Ability to focus on goals/results by getting things done and drive them forward. 

• Convincing and competent in customer interactions. 

• Ability to design and implement complex business requirements. 

• In-depth process and technical knowledge in SAP Manufacturing, preferred in an S/4 environment. 

• Excellent communication skills in English 
  
  

 Nice to have: 

• Experience working with Level 3 solutions - MES integrations  

• Experience with agile development methods like Kanban. 

• Process knowledge in other SAP areas like QM, MM