**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**- Digitalization will be part of our DNA at GB. We will change processes that will simplify life within but also outside of GB, sometimes even without our BASF colleagues noticing it. Within GB, we will use digital tools to stop us spending too much time on tasks that hinder us from doing the things that are really needed, such as consulting our service recipients. Digital tools will free up our time to help our internal partners and we will be able to actively shape our division's digital footprint.- GB Strategy is to transform Kuala Lumpur Hub into a digital Hub to support BASF. GBC Supply chain team is looking for an exceptional Supply chain professional to support in development and implementation of new digital tools that will help operations.- You will focus on designing and implementing (along with counterparts and solution architects) Control Tower solutions for BASF Overseas delivery services. In addition, you will need to understand the customers' requirements and use cases to map to the Control Tower solution. As part of the digital transformation, you will play a key role in change management and communication to stakeholders.**Main Tasks**(50%) Data science- You will conduct analytics and data ETL (Extract, Transform and Loading) activities for all deliveries.- You will be actively creating new and upgrading existing data visualizations- You will be actively creating new datasets and migrating older datasets to cloud databases as well as improving data availability, consistency, and completeness.- You will use hypothesis testing to find meaningful insights from data- You will use your knowledge of data science to implement statistical and machine learning models to create predictive and prescriptive solutions that provide users with key insights.(25%) Supply chain tactical support- You will work closely with the control tower team to develop solutions and tools for the control tower setup- You will be providing technical support the control tower team for door-to-door supply chain delivery process- You will setup exception and disruption monitoring tools for supply chain stages including what-if scenarios and recommended actions / options(20%) Communication and change mgmt.- You will translate business questions and concerns into specific quantitative questions that can be answered with available data using sound methodologies- You will drive support in deployment of new tools and processes, conduct user acceptance testing and help resolve bugs and issues(5%) Supply chain operations support- You will Identify and evaluate automation and technology opportunities to drive operational improvements.**Requirements**:- Bachelor's degree in Computer science, Statistics, Mathematics or related field- At least 4 years of relevant Data science / Data engineering / Computer science / Artificial intelligence / Statistics / Analytics- Strong knowledge in working with R, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and/or Spark- Strong knowledge in working with SQL, Azure, and cloud databases Familiarity with Machine leaning / artificial intelligence model building- Self-driven and takes initiative to learn and experiment- Open minded with diversity and strong communication skills- Great analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities**BASF regional service hub has been established since 2005 in Kuala Lumpur. The regional service hub has approximately 700 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.
