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Welcome to BASF Digital Hub China
We power digital transformation in BASF.

Take your place at the forefront of the digitization of manufacturing as part of BASF Digital Hub China team, transforming ideas into prototypes. 

 Digitalization is part of BASF Corporate Strategy since 2018. As BASF's second dedicated digital hub globally and first in Asia, BASF Digital Hub China reaffirms our commitment to grow in the China market. Digital Hub China is located in the city center of Nanjing city, which offers geographic proximity to other BASF sites in China.

Interested in deep diving into data-driven solutions? Smart manufaturing? Digital sales and marketing? Cyber security? Or R&D? We have you covered with a comprehensive portfolio of digital transformation. With the use of top-notch tools and collaborative teamwork, you will be empowered to explore and pursue any area of the business that interests you.

Join BASF Digital Hub China, our future is digital!

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August 23, 2022

BASF strengthens its digitalization capabilities in China with its Digital Hub in Nanjing

BASF’s Digital Hub China celebrates its two-year anniversary and announces to accelerate the incubation of digital talents in China. With this, BASF further enhances its capabilities in a wide spectrum of digital areas such as SAP & planning solutions, cyber security, artificial intelligence and data science, IoT as well as cloud and commerce solutions in China’s unique digital ecosystem. 

Let’s Create Together

Your future is also ours

At BASF, we believe the right path is through creativity, learning from experience, and great people working together and having a good time. That is why our priority is to create a collaborative, transparent and open space for our employees. We want you to be able to explore the full potential of your abilities, and embrace creativity and innovation with our team culture embedded in your daily work.

How we do it

Agile culture

Agile is our mindset and way of working. We believe in iteration and always improving our work, with small and rapid deliveries, and feedback loops to bring the greatest value to our customers.

Business oriented

BASF Digital Hub China is determined to help our customers to navigate through the unique digital environment of China.

Cutting-edge technology

We embrace the new generation of enabling technologies and explore the opportunities with a curious and innovative mind.

Develop digital talent and team

At BASF, we value dynamic and creative people who are eager to learn through on-job-experience and even mistakes.

Enable flexible working arrangement

We focus on work-life balance, and have policies including working from home and flexible working hours.

WHAT WE DO

We join the frontline of Industry 4.0

BASF strives to lead the digitalization of the manufacturing industry fueled by internal demand from BASF’s hundreds of product lines, stretching from chemicals, high-performance materials, industrial solutions, surface technologies to nutrition and care, and agricultural.

We are agile from the beginning

BASF Digital Hub China has a dynamic and flexible start-up culture, and at the same time, our employees enjoy the experience, work-life balance and stability of a leading company. 

We design cutting-edge digital solutions

The team designs cutting-edge digital solutions and is determined to bring technologies like IoT, big data, artificial intelligence and cloud solutions to China’s unique digital landscape.

Join us and start working on interesting, challenging and relevant projects to lead the industry transformation. 


Some of the teams that are hiring now

We are committed to providing solutions that optimize supply chain planning to best meet customer needs and enable data-driven and cross-functional decision making in alignment with business priorities.”

Alice Kang

Supply Chain Planning Product Manager

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We are delivering and supporting end-to-end supply chain excellence through technical and process expertise, working closely with the Operating Divisions (ODs) to facilitate and optimize planning processes and solutions with focus on supply chain planning landscape in China. The team supports Global New Planning Landscape project and ODs in translation of business requirements into system solutions, in compliance with BASF standards and Chinese regulations.  From a content perspective, this includes:

  • Supply Chain Planning process and system design as well as the interfacing processes  
  • Close alignment with the relevant ODs regional and global supply chain planning initiatives

Check out available roles  for supply chain planning related jobs.

it is our mission to protect BASF Group against cyber threats, to secure the digital journey in a sustainable way while supporting our internal business partners and stakeholders as strategic partners."

Dr. Holger PETERSEN

Head of Cyber Security China

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The Cyber Security team helps to secure digital business in China, by protecting new business models which don’t have to follow BASF Global standards but are required to adapt the speed-to-market.

The Security Architecture Team looks into Chinese Digital Solutions, designs security architectures to operate them in a secure manner, thereby respecting the China Security Law and related laws, like DSL or PIPL. Furthermore the Cyber Security team evaluates their security (e.g. via risk assessments and pen-tests) and makes recommendations to the business how to improve security and fix potential flaws.

As the likelihood of attack is expected to be higher for China we establish a strong Cyber Security Defense Team with a Forensics capability and a Security Audit & Remediation Team that also conducts Vulnerablity Assessments for the business.
Check out available roles in Cyber Security. 
As an active voice of what our business needs, we seek out and create best-in-class regional digital solutions for them.” 

Kate ZHENG

Regional Solutions Product Manager

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The mission of regional solutions team is to deliver digital solutions in the region for the region. We consult, design, deliver and operate business specific applications.

Our team is responsible for covering the complete application lifecycle management (consult, plan, build and run).

We offer services including Business Requirement Analysis, Application Development, System Design & Deployment, Process Optimization, System Security Assessment, Project Management etc. to our business.

Check out all the available roles in DevOps, Product Owner, Project Manager and Business Consultant. 

“We are passionate about data and have customer-oriented and DevOps mindsets responsible for implementing end-to-end data-driven solutions.”

Ricardo Crepaldi, Data Enablement Platform Leader

The Data Enablement Platform Team implements data-driven solutions in areas such as data ingestion and persistence, data integration and transformation, data application and data visualization, including solutions for business intelligence, data streaming and API management, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence platforms and big data solutions.

The team partners with best-in-class global technology companies to deliver cutting-edge data solutions, as well as with innovative start-ups, allowing us to offer a complete portfolio from standard and global solutions to customized solutions.

The team is passionate about data and we enable and support internal business partners and customers through our platforms and agile teams to make the most of the data solutions.

Check out available roles in data architecture, big data engineering, cloud system engineering. 

“We value collaborative and productive team members. Together, we aim to realize the digitalization of business by developing and operating data analytics solutions.”

Inga-Lena Darkow, Artificial Intelligence Solutions Leader

The AI Solutions Team is experiencing growing demand from the region for data-driven decision making and AI solutions for business teams. This includes interest in sales/customer interaction data analytics, product pricing, Covid-19 crisis and recovery support for product and supply chain management, network optimization, value chain optimization, data analytics for logistics visibility and for digital commerce, data analytics for market data, and customizing global solutions for users in China. 

Part of BASF’s global interdisciplinary team, AI Solutions Team works on progressive solutions with a blend of analytical, information technology and business capabilities. The team delivers innovative solutions which support decision making in business and operations across all BASF functions and businesses, for example Planning and Controlling, Marketing and Sales, Production, Supply Chain Management and Procurement.

Check out available roles in data science, data or solution engineering, machine learning and operations research. 

“Asia Pacific is at the frontline of digitalization transformation in the world, be it e-commerce, mobile solutions and Industry 4.0. We embrace and co-create with tech giants as well as start-ups in the region to create innovative solutions for our business.” 

Juliet Wang, Regional Solutions Leader

The Regional Solutions Team consults, designs, delivers and operates many customer and business-specific applications built to customer requirements at BASF. Recent projects cover a variety of areas such as the WeChat mini program for all farmers using BASF’s agricultural solutions in China, data integration between 1688 BASF flagship store and ERP system, production safety system using IoT, automatic document processing system using OCR and, RPA etc. By partnering with top global and local technology companies and start-ups, we offer exciting opportunity to apply wide range of cutting-edge technologies in business. 

Check out all the available roles on the Regional Solutions Team like DevOps, Product Owner, Project Manager and Business Consultant. 

We deliver data driven solutions leveraging Data Science (AI/ML) to help sales, marketing & customer facing teams at BASF to: 

✓ Unlock business value by pattern recognition & insightful recommendations at the best point in time.

✓ Inject AI/ML based insights into digital sales & marketing solution portfolio. 

✓ Let humans do what humans can do best & assist in decision making through proactive notifications."

Nikhil Dandekar

AI solutions for sales & marketing

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We are looking for business analysts, data engineers or data scientists who are passionate to learn & apply their data science skills to real world problems in sales & marketing. We work with technologies such as python, azure, databricks & salesforce to develop data driven solutions for our business partners to grow sales or drive efficiencies. Come join us to solve data science problems with business impact !

Check out available roles  as business analysts, data engineers or data scientists.

The future is not what you dream, but what you make. Join BASF Digital Hub China today and let’s create a digital future!

Do you have these areas of expertise to co-code the future? 

Check out all available roles at BASF Digital Hub China. 

Work on technically challenging projects at the forefront of Industry 4.0 from BASF Digital Hub China's new office located in the bustling old town district of Nanjing. It's an opportunity to impact all of BASF's businesses and functions in China by digitalizing manufacturing. Follow us on WeChat “BASF Recruitment” to stay connected and updated or register as a Talent Community Member to receive upcoming job openings that match your career interests.