Product Safety Manager - Digitalization & Data Analytics

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

• Drive digital transformation initiatives, enhancing operation efficiencies and excellence, and ensuring the seamless integration of digital technologies across organization for Product Safety
• Drive and support the creation of the Product Safety region digital strategy with the major focus on adapting the digital strategy and roadmap to regional needs
• Ensuring harmonization of all operational processes improvement and optimization to achieve process efficiency, cost efficient and service excellence, and in accordance to BASF strategy
• Drive the development and implementation of data analytics initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and business insights
• Lead the transformational change of digitalization and foster collaboration with various region and global stakeholders

Main Tasks

• Identify improvement and optimization opportunities (including challenges) through comprehensive assessment of current and/or new business/operation processes and digital applications/assets within Safety Cluster (Product Safety) domain
• Develop and manage the effective implementation and execution of the digitalization and analytics roadmap in KL Hub and the Asia Pacific that aligns with business priorities and maximizes impact
• Serve as a data analytics subject matter expert to promote a data-driven culture through the implementation of automated workflows using BI tools (e.g. Power BI, Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate)
• Managing digital project management including the project development, budgeting and project execution on time and within budget
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders for successful project implementation and deliverables
• Drive operational process efficiency and optimization initiatives via digitalization and data analytics to meet business demand
• Foster collaboration within Product Safety Community to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and best practices throughout the digitalization journey
• Contribute to strengthen BASF compliance framework and customer centricity via digital solution

Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science,  information technology, software engineering, computer engineering or related field is essential

Working Experience

• At least 8 years in digitalization related competencies, project management
• Hands on experience in implementing digital transformation

Technical & Professional Knowledge

• Experience in identifying and evaluating emerging disruptive trends, including digitization and data analytics, analyzing potential opportunities, risks and barriers to adoption internally and across various business units
• Proficiency in Power Apps and Power Automate is essential. Familiarity with Power BI and generative AI is a plus
• Good understanding on the criticality of compliance
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Excellent analytical, project management, communication, and interpersonal skills

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.