Total 8 management job vacancies in Singapore

About The Role

We are looking for a dynamic Head of Product Management who will be responsible for leading the regional product managers in Asia Pacific to meet the financial and strategic objectives of the Plastic Additives business. This position is also responsible for regional product management of the Hindered Amine Light Stabilizers (HALS) product line. The role will focus on developing and continuously improving common business processes and rules used in Asia Pacific and harmonize both with global business functions.

How You Will Do It

Leadership
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing regional product management team, fostering a culture of accountability, entrepreneurship, and continuous improvement.
• Member of EVP regional Business Leadership Team and first escalation point for Regional Product Managers.

Strategy
• Develop and implement regional product strategies that align with the overall business goals and market needs.
• Lead the product management team in identifying growth opportunities, setting priorities, and ensuring alignment with strategic goals.

Financial performance
• Establish financial targets for product lines together with global product management and monitor performance against these targets, ensuring accountability across teams.
• Conduct regular financial and market analysis, including pricing strategies, cost management, and profitability assessments, to drive decisions that enhance financial performance.

Market intelligence and supply network optimization
• Oversee market research and competitive analysis to identify and address market trends, customer needs, and potential opportunities and threats.
• Drive third party sourcing from suppliers, tollers and co-producers in alignment with relevant stakeholders. Responsible for regional demand/supply balancing and volume allocations in case of shortages.

Portfolio management
• Optimize product portfolio, manage business continuity and ensure product compliance with regulatory requirements across Asia. Decide product specification, drive resolution of quality issues and approve raw material suppliers.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive innovation that meets the strategic and financial targets of the business. Responsible for regional business cases for new product developments and making recommendations to start/continue/stop product developments.

Collaboration
• Work closely with global product management, sales, marketing, supply chain, operations, procurement, controlling, quality management and product stewardship & regulatory teams to ensure cohesive strategies that support financial and strategic objectives.
• Foster a collaborative environment that encourages input and engagement from all relevant stakeholders.

What We Look For

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in chemistry, engineering or business-related field
• Minimum 5 years business experience within both upstream and downstream chemical industry, ideally across various functions such as marketing, sales, product management, R&D, production, controlling
• Exceptional analytical and strategic thinking skills. Demonstrated business acumen and ability to make timely, data-driven decisions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders in a matrix organization.
• Proven leadership experience including but not limited to project management or change management initiatives, with a focus on developing and motivating teams to achieve results.
• Strong understanding of market dynamics, customer needs, and competitive landscapes in both upstream and downstream chemical industry.
• Strong project and change management skills are a plus
• Experience in plastic industries or additive industries is a plus
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment and open mindset.

About The Role

We are looking for a dynamic Business Management TPU Manager to manage the segment marketing for Cables and Wires in the Asia Pacific region. The role will focus on defining and implementing marketing plans with comprehensive go-to-market strategies and tactics for key customer segments, driving and executing segment marketing strategy. You will be accountable for the segment end to end and manage the interfaces between groups, developing a strategic plan for business and market share growth.

How You Will Do It

Individual Accountabilities
• Manage segment Business Management's (BM’s) financial performance
• Drive growth through the development and implementation of BM strategy, and its relevant segment roadmaps (both tied to Strategic Business Unit (SBU))
• Develop a thorough understanding and articulation of the assigned market opportunity including market share, the competitive set, unique differentiators, and customer/target needs
• Prioritize commercial and technical projects
• Support sales forecasting, regional pricing strategies implementation, and owns product allocation to customer within the region
• Manage translation of market and customer needs into new products/applications and identification of pilot customers
• Monitor marketing performance and optimizes efforts based on data, insights, and market knowledge as reported and provided by Marketing insight team
• Develop segment pricing strategies and provides segment-specific price guidance to commercial management
• Develop product launch and sales kits: follow agreed upon launch method for fast, efficient new product introduction
• Drive segment’s key technical and commercial evaluations and key business topics via intra-regional Segment Communities

Key Shared Accountabilities

• Prioritize customer support activities based on agreed segmentation and service levels
• Translation of technical and commercial customer needs into solutions
• Coordinate product launch activities
• Define product portfolio for the segment
• Contribute to global and regional SBU strategy development and implementation

What We Look For

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Chemical Engineering or Engineering Technology or equivalent
• Minimum 8 years of experience in Sales, Marketing or Product Management
• Good knowledge and experience of Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) required
• Highly skilled in formulating market strategies and go-to-market approaches.
• Experience in translating market and customer needs into new products/applications and identification of pilot customers.
• Experience in developing segment pricing strategies and providing segment-specific price guidance to commercial management.
• Experience in developing product launch and sales kits
• Effective communication skills and ability to work well across functions internally and externally.
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience working in a multi-cultural environment.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel PowerPoint)
• Flexible to travel within Asia Pacific

Objectives of the Position

Manage globally the main group of Niche Antioxidants, ensuring strategic alignment and profitability maximization.

Responsibilities

1. Price management

• Develop global price guidelines & landed cost development forecast.
• Provide global limit and regional base price. Approve deviations from set limits.
• Ensure profitability, volume and value growth according to the budget and long-term strategic plan.

2. Global optimization of cost of supply

• Define and optimize global product strategy (make to stock or make to order)
• Allocate and manage volumes in shortage periods as well as products under declaration of “force majeure”
• Monitor asset utilization and drive inventory optimization for assigned product group.
• Define global co-manufacturing (make-or-buy) and tolling strategy for defined product range. Interact with tollers.
• Manage product transitions from one site to another
• Support restructuring and investment projects for defined product range

3. Product portfolio management

• Analyze the respective portfolio, coordinate, and initiate required actions, e.g., pruning.
• Assure compliance (liaise with product stewardship and regulatory (PS&R)) and quality for the product portfolio (in framework of Non-Conformance Management (NCM) and Management of Change (MOC) process)
• Ensure consistent business case development of innovation projects.
• Develop positioning of new products in line with the global portfolio strategy and re/position existing products in the portfolio. Approve product market introduction (with input from industry segments)
• Define competitive positioning of current and new products in the portfolio.
• Assure the product availability for the launch preparation of a new product.

4. Strategic Business Unit (SBU) strategy development

• Develop, implement and monitor the respective main-group / product strategies in line with global SBU strategy. Define corrective measures where required.
• Guide and challenge key account managers in development of customer strategies
• Support strategic projects in terms of commercial evaluation

5. Functionally drive all portfolio related topics into the regional product management organizations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Chemistry, Material Science, or Business Management.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in marketing, product management, supply chain, sales, R&D, or production.
• Experienced in annual budget planning and financial control
• Demonstrated leadership without functional or disciplinary responsibility.
• Strong analytical skill, project management, technical and commercial background, preferably from polymer and/or plastic additives industry is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, a good team player who is able to interact in a multicultural and multi-functional environment.

Objectives of the Position

Responsible to partner with the business to assist with driving implementation of regional / global projects, coordinating team activities and implementing communities. Involved to conduct business research, analysis of industry trends and development.

Main Tasks

• Supports senior management by coordinating team activities and implementing communities.
• Assist in steering and driving the implementation of regional projects and global projects.
• Establish information sharing platform to further drive marketing excellence.
• Acquire more business acumen through research, and analysis of industry trends and developments.

Requirements

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in business management (MBA) or other related field.
• Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience in similar roles.
• Proven track record of delivering end-to-end transformation initiatives.
• Excellent verbal communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Exceptional project management skills, with the ability to effectively lead and deliver multiple projects simultaneously.
• Good communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.

Objectives

The Local Business Manager for ASEANZ is responsible to lead the Performance Materials business teams in ASEAN & ANZ to develop, enable & implement robust activities aimed at growth, to increase profitable contribution to all 3 Strategic Business Units in Performance Materials division. This role will also oversee the Performance Materials operation sites in Thailand (Bangpoo) and Malaysia (Toray BASF PBT Resin Malaysia and Pasir Gudang)

Responsibilities

Business Management

· Leads and manages the profitable growth of ASEAN & ANZ Business Management for all 3 Regional Business Managements.

· Develops sales & marketing strategies in alignment with Performance Materials division for ASEAN & ANZ.

· Ensure mid-term and long-term targets are achieved and required resources are in place to achieve volume and profitability targets.

· Prepares budget and oversees expenditures to ensure cost effectiveness of all Sales / Technical Development activities. Manages overall business unit’s cost in line with budget.

· Provides leadership to the development and implementation of segments, application, product, and customer strategies to achieve sales targets.

· Steers resources in accordance with strategies and technical development plans and in line with customer management (segmentation, business rules)

· Guides team to explore, identify and develop new businesses.

· Establishes relationships with key management stakeholders of strategic customers.

· Conducts and develops the business in line with regional and local Code of Conduct and maintain full compliance in the team.

· Represents the company in trade and professional organizations to stay in touch with market trends.

· Responsible for approval of first level price exceptions outside of price list limits

· Sales and Key Account Management - Optimize sales turnover and improve profitability, steering country team, assessing new business opportunities and building business relationships with global/regional/local key accounts in ASEAN & ANZ

· Sales and Distribution Channel Management - Monitor and recommend/decide the cost effectiveness and efficiency of the local sales and distribution channels to optimize the profit margins and market shares.

· Marketing Communication - Implementation of marketing communication programs of countries with the regional marketing communication team

· Market Intelligence – Collaborates with countries and Regional Business Units on market intelligence analysis results and competitive information on market trends, customer requirements to develop and review global/regional/local strategies, policies and business plans.

· Pricing Management - Implement and propose modifications of pricing strategies for countries with the Regional Business Units in order to balance the global/regional/local business strategies and ensure the profitability of Performance Materials business in ASEAN & ANZ

Credit Management

· Leads and guides team to ensure credit management is aligned to company’s guideline and risk management.

People Management

· Provides leadership to the Sales/Technical Sales Organization (incl. Key Account Management) and leads team development.

· Ensures appropriate resources are in place with proper succession planning.

· Plan and control the function structure and manpower requirements, headcount, and budget, establish development measures and appraise the performance of the team.

· Direct and prioritize the workload of team members.

· Train (via on the- job, in-house and/or external training programs) and coach the direct reports (who are mostly experienced professionals/ managers) and develop the succession planning in order to improve the working efficiency, quality and professional skills of the team members.

· Compile and review work records to determine department productivity, quality of output and cost of service.

· Develop methods to continually improve results.

Requirements

· Master’s / bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering/Plastics/Business Administration

· At least 15 years of commercial experience preferably in the plastics and chemical industries.

· At least 7 years of leadership experience, including business driving, strategic steering, and people leadership.

· Hands-on management experience in an organization with a high level of complexity and integration, and able to work independently.

· Experience in managing a highly diverse team and cross-cultural environment.

· Familiarity with BASF's internal network is required.

· In-depth knowledge of Engineering Plastics/PU Systems, technical know-how and applications.

Objectives of the Position

• Experienced Global Business Expert for the processes Order-to-Cash and Transportation Management. Part of the Global Supply Chain Process Excellence team with members located in Europe, Asia, North America and South America.

Main Tasks:

• Implement new organizational and / or technical concepts for processes OTC (Order-to-Cash) and TM (Transportation Management) in strong alignment with relevant stakeholders including global process owners. Facilitate and contribute to change and test management activities.
• Drive innovation and automation activities, e.g., based on RPA (Robotics Process Automation) technology. Continuously assess improvement potentials and implement new solutions when available.
• Track and address adherence to business rules and processes including monitoring via KPIs, process mapping tools, and reports.
• Lead regional, sub-regional and local key-user communities to enforce continuous communication and best practice exchange.
• Lead projects or projects workstreams with cross-organizational or cross-functional aspects, e.g. S/4HANA implementation or supply chain integration of acquired businesses.
• Execute key-user and end-user support including Issue-solving in day-to-day business, training, monitoring tasks and data maintenance.

Requirements:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in business administration, IT, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or a related field.
• Minimum 6 years of progressive experience in Logistics or Supply Chain, with a strong focus on order-to-cash and transportation management processes and tools.
• Experience in Agricultural business is a plus.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Process knowledge: Deep knowledge of supply chain, operations, and logistics processes. Experience with analysis and monitoring tools, e.g. SAP transactions, BW applications, data lake queries.
• Organizational knowledge: Awareness about organizational structures in Company, interaction between divisions and corporate / service functions.
• IT knowledge: Detailed knowledge of Microsoft standard applications, SAP ERP, and related tools for OTC and TM purposes.
• Process design / modeling: Capability to use process modeling tools (e.g. Signavio) for process mapping and design.
• Project management: Experience in contributing to projects or leading workstreams of projects. Ability to manage own workload, set priorities and regular reporting of progress to stakeholders. Change management skills.
• Customer-Centricity: A strong commitment to enhancing the customer and business partner experience throughout the order-to-cash and transportation management process area.

Innovation mindset: Innovative mindset and affinity to new digital developments.

Objectives of the Position

Lead and develop the SCALE business (which includes Bangladesh, Pakistan, Philippines, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Sri Lanka) profitably, while ensuring the strategic and operational topics are discussed and aligned with Business Unit for delivering the BASF Group Corporate Strategy.

Main Tasks:

The incumbent is responsible for the overall vision and strategic development of the SCALE business:

• Plan and implement country specific strategic plan and operation model to achieve business growth
• Formulate the overarching market development concept and develop country specific business growth strategies
• Organizational development of SCALE including continuously identifying solutions and optimization in how SCALE operates
• Workforce concept including implementation of the company’s diversity targets
• Leverage synergies by actively exchanging with other AS countries and actively supporting AS community
• Manage interfaces and cross-business collaboration. Support cross-business collaboration and synergies to maximize BASF’s value and local positioning
• Establish regular strategic dialogues with the BUs including influencing for change management and generating transparency on progress

Business Steering:

Full accountability for the financial performance of SCALE to ensure that the agreed targets are achieved, e.g. top line, overall profits, margins, fixed costs, working capital and other qualitative targets:

• Establish efficient business monitoring tools or market intelligence, monitor business development and take corrective actions where needed
• Take charge of SCALE’s annual budget to ensure that budget targets are met, revenue flows are maximized, and fixed costs are minimized
• Drive strict cost discipline to improve the competitiveness
• Ensure strong and effective distribution management across countries

People Development:

Responsible for the overall people development of the team of senior leaders and country organization to ensure SCALE achieves its business objectives:

• Lead, guide, evaluate and develop the country team to become real entrepreneurs
• Continuously scout, develop and retain talent to ensure the formation of the ‘best team’
• Establish talent development concept for SCALE, develop talents and drive the succession planning for SCALE leadership levels
• Act as role model and motivates for high performance including but not limited to driving sales excellence initiatives
• Cultivate an entrepreneurial and innovative culture and improve employee engagement
• Create an inclusive environment that embraces diversity

Requirements:

• Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Business is preferred.
• At least 10 years of relevant work experience in leading, directing and controlling the activities of a business unit to achieve short and long-term financial and operating objectives as set by the overall corporate business plan.
• Experience in managing specialty products or value chains with a high degree of integration and complexity, and in negotiating and managing complex business contracts and multi-year agreements.
• Experience in managing a team to drive change in a dynamic business environment, with a highly diverse team and a cross-cultural environment.
• A wide knowledge of the chemical industry e.g., size, current situation and future scenarios; key players, competitors and other stakeholders; regulatory and other statutory requirements.
• An understanding of financial management and wider management principles and techniques.
• Excellent communication and presentational skills with high level of political savviness, cultural sensitivity and appreciation of the demands of conflicting interests
• Excellent project management skills
• High level of commercial and organizational awareness
• Strong ability for analytical and strategic thinking

Objectives of the Position

• Experienced Global Business Expert for the processes Order-to-Cash and Transportation Management. Part of the Global Supply Chain Process Excellence team with members located in Europe, Asia, North America and South America.

Main Tasks:

• Implement new organizational and / or technical concepts for processes OTC (Order-to-Cash) and TM (Transportation Management) in strong alignment with relevant stakeholders including global process owners. Facilitate and contribute to change and test management activities.
• Drive innovation and automation activities, e.g., based on RPA (Robotics Process Automation) technology. Continuously assess improvement potentials and implement new solutions when available.
• Track and address adherence to business rules and processes including monitoring via KPIs, process mapping tools, and reports.
• Lead regional, sub-regional and local key-user communities to enforce continuous communication and best practice exchange.
• Lead projects or projects workstreams with cross-organizational or cross-functional aspects, e.g. S/4HANA implementation or supply chain integration of acquired businesses.
• Execute key-user and end-user support including Issue-solving in day-to-day business, training, monitoring tasks and data maintenance.

Requirements:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in business administration, IT, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or a related field.
• Minimum 6 years of progressive experience in Logistics or Supply Chain, with a strong focus on order-to-cash and transportation management processes and tools.
• Experience in Agricultural business is a plus.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Process knowledge: Deep knowledge of supply chain, operations, and logistics processes. Experience with analysis and monitoring tools, e.g. SAP transactions, BW applications, data lake queries.
• Organizational knowledge: Awareness about organizational structures in Company, interaction between divisions and corporate / service functions.
• IT knowledge: Detailed knowledge of Microsoft standard applications, SAP ERP, and related tools for OTC and TM purposes.
• Process design / modeling: Capability to use process modeling tools (e.g. Signavio) for process mapping and design.
• Project management: Experience in contributing to projects or leading workstreams of projects. Ability to manage own workload, set priorities and regular reporting of progress to stakeholders. Change management skills.
• Customer-Centricity: A strong commitment to enhancing the customer and business partner experience throughout the order-to-cash and transportation management process area.

Innovation mindset: Innovative mindset and affinity to new digital developments.