Category Buyer Travel

2 weeks ago


Bandar Utama, Malaysia BASF (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. Full time

We are a leading chemical company, with the best teams developing intelligent solutions for our customers, and for a sustainable future.

We connect and develop people with diverse talents all over the world. For you, this means a variety of ways to progress.

Not only your performance but also your personality matter to us, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, orientation, and background. At BASF, careers develop from opportunities.

**O**bjecti**v**es of t**h**e **P**osi**t**ion**
- Responsible for purchasing activities of Travel Procurement within Asia Pacific (focus on China/Malaysia/Singapore /HK Regional and SSC offices ) targeted at gaining optimum commercial conditions at the required level of supply security.
- Work together with global category team and shared service center buyers in a way that encourages collaboration and leverages the team’s ability to ensure that the purchasing category delivers agreed targets and service standards, on time and within budget. The travel procurement activity broadly covers Air/Train /hotel /and associated local conveyance etc.,

**M**ain** Areas of Responsibilities and Key Activities**

Category buyer for Travel Procurement

Plan to Strategy - Responsible for contributing to strategy:

- Provide input of internal customer needs and market knowledge (e.g. supply market structure and dynamics, strategies of suppliers, pricing structures, local specifics, opportunities and threats)
- Support Category Manager on strategy development (e.g. strategic goals, strategic options, implementation plan)
- Strategy implementation & follow-up: tackle action items, deliver progress report to Global Category Manager.

Sourcing to Contract - Responsible upon delegation by Category Manager:

- You will constantly demonstrate your negotiating skills - confident, cost-conscious and quality-conscious in RFQ’s and price negotiations.
- Negotiating contracts with local/regional travel suppliers and service providers as part of the Global Travel Procurement Team
- Cooperation with regional procurement units, global procurement, and the regional travel management of the service units in order to implement synergies and requirements in the procurement of travel services.
- Implementation of travel policies and processes in regional procurement strategies in Asia/Pacific
- Coordination & control of travel procurement activities in Asia/Pacific as well as management of problem solutions and special situations for the region
- Proactive risk management in the regional travel procurement environment
- Analysis of market
- and demand development in the Asia/Pacific region
- Consulting of BASF Group companies in the area of business travel procurement
- Identification and tracking of potential savings in the area of the various markets, providers and tools
- Expansion and maintenance of a regional internal and external network of experts for a professional exchange
- With your expertise, you advise internal business partners on procurement decisions for travel solutions/processes and act as a central point of contact for both - internal and external business partners.
- You also break new ground and identify potential for improvement.
- In close cooperation with the internal Business Partners, Corporate Legal, Corporate Data Protection, License Management, Corporate Finance and Tax as well as the Category Buyers from different regions you live the purchasing processes.
- As part of Category Management, you drive topics such as Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), the achievement of agreed targets /KPI's as well as the proactive identification of savings potential.
- Close interaction with the shared service center for the effective management of P2P process relevant to your category.
- You also break new ground and identify potential for improvement.

Others:

- Functional Responsibility: being led by Category Manager
- At request of Category Manager, align resource allocation for Local Procurement Representative with Hub Management and provide guidance to Local Procurement Representative in selected cases
- Execute Supplier Management according to boundaries and action plan defined by Global Category Manager, manage relationships with key suppliers, evaluate supplier performance, drive supplier innovation
- Execute Risk Management approach with appropriate actions
- Reporting of Performance results

Supplier Relationship Management

Actively manage the portfolio of suppliers for defined categories, strengthen partnership with key suppliers and continuously manage supplier performance. Included activities:

- Establish contacts with the management of key suppliers to acquire information on service offerings and market trends and to enable timely settlement of issues
- Actively monitor the supplier landscape in Asia Pacific with a specific focus to China and build up new suppliers to enable them to meet BASF’s standards and requirements in future, to ensure reliable supply at competit



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