Job Description
Welcome to the Supply Chain Consultancy of BASF! We focus on inhouse projects that drive the effective transformation of our supply chains. Our team works on a broad range of exciting projects covering topics such as sustainability, supply chain strategies and agility & resilience.
Our people are key to our success: We put people first and actively support you in your career development at BASF. We are proud of our strong team spirit, and we cherish diversity. We value a variety of backgrounds and perspectives to enrich our collaboration, create new ideas, and offer the best solutions to our customers.
As a Project Managing Consultant, you make a real difference for the future of BASF by providing innovative solutions and effective recommendations to BASF's leaders. Our internal customers include the entire value chain of BASF from base chemicals to specialties, each with their unique requirements. You will be focusing on the topics of sustainability, end-to-end supply chain processes, automation & digitalization initiatives and complexity management.
- Hands-on: From day 1 onwards, you are involved in impactful projects which focus on complex supply chain topics supporting our internal customers.
- Impact: As a member of our global Supply Chain Consulting network, you lead a project from initial shape-up to actual implementation planning.
- Broad: Based on our comprehensive consulting, your projects may range from supply chain strategy and S&OP to cost- and inventory optimization as well as logistics processes (warehousing, transportation).
- Personal growth: You work on projects with inhouse consultants from our sister teams of management and operations consultancy as well as with expert departments, giving you the opportunity to further develop your commercial and operations know-how.
- Management exposure: Along the entire project, you communicate directly with BASF's mid to top management as well as all other project stakeholders.
- Competencies: To foster our role as thought-leader in supply chain, you keep up with the latest trends to develop new methodologies and solutions for our future supply chain challenges.
Our ideal candidate for our team can build on the following competencies and experience:
- several years of professional experience in supply chain consulting
- strong background in at least one of the following: Supply Chain Strategy, planning, and S&OP or End-to-end process-, cost, and inventory optimization, including SC digitalization or Logistics processes, e.g., warehousing, transportation, 3PL
- strong strategic thinker, combined with hands-on mentality
- background in the chemical or processing industry is an advantage
- intercultural orientation, with excellent proficiency in English
- international work experience and mastering German is a plus
- willingness to travel on projects needs basis and perspective to support cross regional and global projects
- Career progression: We offer tailored individual training and development opportunities and have a successful track record in employee career development: former consultants can be found on all hierarchy levels at BASF globally.
- Network: Top management visibility and a wide range of top-priority strategic projects with sustainable impact pave the way for a management career in the industry.
- Work-Life-Balance: We provide childcare options, flexible work arrangements and much more.
- New work: We practice location-independent work models (defined minimum number of office days in Ludwigshafen; only valid for residents in Germany).