Senior SAP Technical Consultant S/4 Procurement

Digital Hub Kuala Lumpur attracts, grows, and develops passionate people who will meaningfully impact the digital future of BASF. Come join us and be a part of our digitalization journey.

Objectives of the Position

Global Digital Services is providing its internal partners, the BASF business and service units with innovative and efficient business solutions anywhere in the world with competitive costs globally. The unit Digitalization of Services & Core Systems are supporting mainly BASF service units with differentiated solutions and IT products under a strong agile culture. This means, offering new and innovative services, that help them meet BASF Group growth targets.

The APAC Procurement product team in the Procurement Product Family, provides digital and core SAP solutions to fulfil the requirements from BASF companies globally.

The SAP Technical Consultant understand functional solution designs and translate them into technical designs and implementation. In summary, you will be involved in the design and development of both functional and technical applications, as well as in the enhancement of existing applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop, configure, and test complex applications, including quality assurance in cooperation with our business partners and third-party providers
• Implementation through development (ABAP/ ABAP OO) and/or customizing in SAP and of relevant digital applications would be required
• Provide support during change requests / projects with early consulting which comprises efforts estimation and high-level design solution. Thereafter, proceed and ensure further development, evolution, and optimization
• Responsible for designing possible technical solutions for subject-specific business requirements in coordination with other DevOps engineers and internal business partners within BASF
• While performing studies and evaluations of purchased software, you will be responsible for designing and implementing prototypes in projects using new technologies such as S4/HANA, BTP, Fiori, API and in a distributed system landscape (SAP UI5, SaaS, PaaS including cloud applications)
• Responsible for managing & maintaining operational business support in BASF SAP application landscape. In case of incidents, ensure restoring normal application services as quickly as possible and minimize adverse impact on operations including Problem management, Change Management (incl. small business requests) and Continuous Service Improvement (CSI)
• Steer third party provider in terms of solution or service delivery of procurement topics in Asia Pacific
• It is expected that all tasks are performed according to the standardized BASF guidelines and framework, such as Project Lifecycle, Global Release Management and Solution Manager; as well as agile new methods (such as scrum) consistently
• Able to communicate complex contexts convincingly to the stakeholders within BASF and build stable relationships
• In the digitalization/innovation aspect, act as a Global / Regional representative of BASF Digital community, supporting BASF Digital roadmap, helping GDS to identify, execute and implement customer-centric digital solutions in an actionable and measurable way

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree required with preference in Information Technology
• At least 4 - 6 years professional experience in a role as Technical Consultant, as software designer or as developer
• Functionally worked with Workflow, BAPI, User-Exits, SAP Script/Smart form, ABAP Queries, BADI, BDC, Search help, Transaction variants, Enhancement points
• Good programming skills in an object-oriented programming language; Knowledge in UI5, ABAP OO or JAVA
• Knowledge of OO Design Patterns and OO Design Principles, API and SAP FIORI
• Good knowledge in development with CDS views in ABAP Dictionary
• Familiar with SAP interfaces, knowledge about EDI, IDoc and ABAP-Proxy communication
• Knowledge of SAP S/4 HANA, ideally in BTP
• Good to very good analytical skills and high developed ability to foster sustainability
• Strong proactive thinking; well-developed proactive and self-driven character
• Excellent English communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills in an international team combined with a very high level of customer orientation

Nice to have skills
 

• Knowledge and understanding in Material Management and Invoice Verification modules within the SAP application is essential
• Experiencing Agile way of working or agile implementation approach
• Strong Digital mindset to accelerate BASF Digitalization transformation journey

As one of the world’s largest chemical companies, BASF is on a mission to create chemistry with a sustainable future. The Digital Hub Kuala Lumpur, alongside four other Digital Hubs across the globe, are part of the Global Digital Services team, which is the technology powerhouse driving our vision. As an integrated hub focused on digital growth and innovative business solutions, you will find many opportunities to create an impact here. 

Whether you want to streamline processes with robotics automation, deep-dive into emerging technologies, or help tell the story of BASF – we have you covered. By investing in best-in-class tools and encouraging cross-functional collaboration, we empower our people to be curious and pursue any area of the business that interests them. The bottom line? We want you to bring your differences and spark positive evolutions in BASF.

Further Information at https://go.basf.net/careers_digitalhubkl