BASF reviews about "manager"

Workload is horrible, as long your order is not delivered to customer, yet anything can go wrong and you will have to clean it up even if the error is not your fault (usually supplier or sales does this). There is no such thing as work life balance for this role even though that is what BASF is famed for. Other BASF entities claim that Order Management APTC are experts but these experts are terribly underpaid and overworked. There is no internal politics because there is no time for it as everyone is too busy handling their workload. Working overtime even during weekends or off days is horrible culture practiced by the order managers. New joiners coming and going is normal as this is the role with the highest turnover rate in the company.

employee benefit can improve but is not too bad

Compensations and benefits could improve

high stress level, difficult to climb the hierarchy ladder cause most managers keep to themselves and their preferred people

1. The CORE values has been replaced by winning strategy. Win at all cost! (other than overhead cost- this is to be cut down massively especially in Hong Kong Singapore 2. Sometimes you are forced to do things against your moral values. More than once I have seen managers torn apart teams and to avoid severance, gaslighting employee and toying the bonus cut decision until they resign on their own 3. Headcount cut means everyone is clocking in insane overtime to do 2 persons’ job, or multiple assistant managers JG4 taking over a JG6 senior manager job 4. Micromanagement at each level, all the way from the shareholders. Approval for tiny cost goes up to VP level and slow down decision. Then you got to work overtime to justify why cost and work out alternative to cutdown the cost further 5. Shortsighted business decisions without clear strategy. We claimed to cut down to fuel change but what’s the end game?