Objectives of the Position
- Perform procurement activities following Corporate Procurement Requirements.
- Develop, implement, monitor, and review Procurement strategy, following Excellence in Strategy program.
- Negotiate the contract and/or purchase condition with suppliers based on demand and requirements defined by internal Business Partners (iBP) to achieve competitive advantage for BASF.
- Communicate prices / decisions / market intelligence to the Business Units and have regular exchange of market development.
- Follow buying channel guideline for Purchase-to-Pay operation performed by company.
- Perform procurement process for Supplier Management, Quality management, Risk management and Sustainability-in-Procurement.
Main Tasks:
(Purchase to Strategy):
- Accountable and responsible for strategy development and implementation of measures from category strategies.
Initial classification: determine depth of analysis w/ Positioning Matrix.
- Analysis: understand internal business partners’ needs and identify company’s strengths and weaknesses.
- Market analysis: explore supply market structure and dynamics, strategies of suppliers, explore interregional trade flows and regional/global pricing structures, evaluate opportunities and threats, segment suppliers, evaluate supplier cost positions.
- Strategy development: define strategic goals; define, select, and get preferred strategic option and implementation plan approved; define KPIs.
- Strategy implementation & follow-up: tackle action items, conduct tracking of implementation and measure category performance, deliver progress report to procurement management, and inform internal business partners.
(Source to Contract):
- Define boundaries and targets for upcoming negotiations.
- Identify the requirements of OD such as specification, logistics requirements and demand development.
- Identify the suppliers to be invited to the negotiation based on requirements from iBP. Perform Contract Negotiation Board to get the approval for negotiation boundary (e.g. ZOPA – zone of possible agreement)
- Negotiate with supplier(s) based on category strategy, within boundaries approved by Contract Negotiation Board.
- Finalize the contract and/or purchase condition if the result of negotiation is within defined boundaries and targets, otherwise seek approval from respective approver based on value threshold.
- Contract implementation & monitoring: manage contracts and decide on appropriate actions; inform relevant parties (e.g., Shared Service Center, iBP) about negotiation results; manage supply issues and/or sales allocation/force majeure situations, monitor rebate or other conditions set in the contract.
(Purchase to Pay):
- Follow the Buying Channel guideline. Approve R1/R2 for Purchase Order / Outline Agreement in SAP and follow up approval until final release to issue purchase order and perform payment after goods receipt.
(Supplier Management)
- Negotiate with supplier for claims with Very High non-conformance management (NCM) cases. Be the escalation point for to get the feedback from supplier for improvement measure to prevent the same happening.
- Collect required documents from supplier(s) for master data processes and internal/external Audits.
- Escalation points for NCM management (with support from Operational Officer) especially for claim negotiation.
- Supplier Management: Approve qualified suppliers, evaluate supplier performance, define supplier development plans, decide on disqualification and phase-out of existing suppliers, drive supplier innovation.
- Maintain strategic relationship with key suppliers.
(Communicate with internal Business Partner):
- Provide input for Round Table Meeting with business units.
- Provide input for Negotiation Tracker Savings and respective saving plans for individual business unit.
- Communicate prices / decisions / market intelligence to the internal business partners.
(Risk management):
- Manage single source situation by providing alternative sources available in the market and following up the approval at our sites.
- Invite suppliers to join Sustainability-in-Procurement activities such as TfS (please explain TfS in full extension) evaluation and Supplier Carbon Management Program.
- Fulfill requirements from the German Supply Chain Act law.
(Others):
- Reporting and sharing the information with operational leader on request
Requirements:
- Minimum bachelor’s degree in marketing or other related field.
- Minimum 6 years relevant working experience, preferably in Procurement or Marketing or Sales or Product Management.
- Strong Project Management skills.
