Product Owner Orchestration (m/f/d)

At BASF’s Global Digital Services (GDS), we are passionate about driving digital transformation in the chemical industry.

Our dedicated teams deliver tailored digital products and services to internal business partners worldwide, leveraging the power of our Digital Hubs as dynamic centers of innovation and collaboration that bring us closer to our customers and regional needs.

Here, you’ll join a high-performance culture inspired by our Winning Ways: enabling our customers’ green transformation, accelerating sustainability, and creating a workplace for curious, ambitious talents.

Digitalization is a core part of BASF’s DNA, creating exciting customer experiences, driving business growth, and increasing process efficiency.

This is BASF’s digital vision.

Global Digital Services (GDS) supports BASF’s digital transformation.

Our mission is to drive the digital transformation of BASF by delivering innovative, global, and high-quality digital products and services, enabled by a strong agile culture.

Objectives of the Position :

In the role as Global Product Owner, you will :

• Work in a global and diverse team, with true global product ownership responsibility


• Take a leading role as Product Owner in process management, providing guidance and support to the team


• Consult and develop workflows using Bizagi as a Process Management Platform, including process flows, data models, web forms, integrations, work allocation, and business rules, following a low-code approach


• Improve DevOps automation using Node.js, C#, and .NET


• Coach colleagues based on your broad professional experience


• Act as an ambassador for Business Process Management, highlighting its benefits to business partners


• Collaborate closely with middleware teams using Apigee, SAP CPI, and SAP API Management


• Manage the application lifecycle as well as change and release management processes


• Apply agile development methodologies and tools, such as Kanban boards
  
  

Additionally, you will facilitate the ramp-up of our activities in Hyderabad, in this role you will:

• Orchestrate a cross-functional team and support the integration into the organization


• Support the hiring process and work with other leaders in the global organization to identify the best candidates


• Be the local admin lead for all team members working in our segment, which is responsible for Digitalization of R&D and Data Science within BASF group, while the organizational setup is getting established


• Practice and grow in leadership skills, and lay the foundation for further career development
  
  

Main Areas of Responsibilities and Key Activities :

• Elaborate functional requirements with business partners using Design Thinking principles


• Create solution designs and effort estimations to populate the product backlog


• Serve as the single point of contact for internal business partners by orchestrating solution components delivered by partner teams (e.g., interface, middleware, and backend development) and their architects


• Provide early consulting to internal business partners, including use-case definition, workflow engine demonstrations, and solution recommendations based on the full GDS portfolio


• Implement workflows using the Bizagi Cloud Platform (process flows, data models, user interfaces, integrations, and business rules)


• Ensure quality through unit and functional testing and compliance with security guidelines


• Drive sustainable solutions and automation of repetitive manual tasks


• Coach team members and actively share best practices within the team
  
  

Job Requirements (minimum requirement to carry out the work)

Education :

• Degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, or a comparable field
  
  

Working Experience :

• Minimum 6 years related professional experience with first experience in leading teams
  
  

Technical & Professional Knowledge :

• Strong expertise in Business Process Modeling (BPMN 2.0) and Business/Digital Process Automation (preferably Bizagi BPM, or comparable platforms such as Pegasystems or Appian)


• Strong experience with Node.js, C#, .NET, Azure SQL Database (including stored procedures, triggers, and job scheduling), and at least one web development framework


• Design and development of .NET components, SOAP services, SQL stored procedures, triggers, ETL jobs, and middleware solutions to integrate Bizagi with enterprise applications


• Solid experience in requirements engineering (use case definition)


• Experience in DevOps practices


• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to foster a positive and energized team culture


• Strong analytical skills and a high level of customer orientation


• Growth mindset with curiosity and willingness to continuously learn and improve


• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills in English


• Ability to work effectively in a globally distributed, multicultural team


• Knowledge of agile development methodologies such as Kanban


• Strong digital mindset to actively drive BASF’s digital transformation


• Ability to work efficiently under pressure on non-routine and highly complex tasks