Associate Specialist, Corporate Procurement

KBR · Chennai

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Associate Specialist, Corporate Procurement 

Job Posting title: Supplier Onboarding Associate Specialist, Corporate Procurement 

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Corporate Procurement mission…  

To deliver a differentiated Corporate Procurement solution that drives consistency, compliance and value, providing a platform that is a mechanism for innovation driven by systems and processes that enable a streamlined experience which anticipates and meets strategic and sustainable sourcing needs. 

Responsibilities:   

• Use KBR specific systems to process Global Supplier Onboarding for KBR teams 

• Follow structured Supplier Onboarding Process flow from end to end 

• Ownership of the process stages and knowledgeable on advising all stakeholders within this process 

• Target driven to complete the tasks in a timely manner 

• Understanding and leveraging system automations 

• Maintain the Supplier Onboarding request system on the corporate procurement portal.  

• Manage the requests from and with internal stakeholders 

• Interface with external stakeholders to gather essential information/data 

• Ensure to follow up with all stakeholders in a timely basis to complete each step in the process 

• Create and enhance training collateral of the process and share with your team for review 

• Maintain process and procedures for the department 

• Focused effort on agreed targets, ensuring contribution to the overall Corporate Procurement goals.  

COMPETENCIES  

Essentials: 

• Intellectual curiosity 

• Solid interpersonal skills &  stakeholder interactions experienced. 

• Worked in a structured, process driven environment with interest in continuous improvement  

• Experience in global procurement 

• May suit previous experience in customer service/client facing environment 

• Identify when a task or activity is not progressing (Problem or error identification) and willingness to escalate, organized, self-managing own workload 

• Effective listening  

• Empathy 

• Flexibility and adaptability 

Good to have: 

• Self-motivating 

• Articulate 

• Organized 

• Proactivity and shows initiative to escalate 

• Ethics 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION  

• Proposes personal training needs in relation to the role remit.  

• Actively participate in quarterly 1-2-1s to review progress against targets.  

• Actively participate in team meetings.   

• Contribute to improving processes through innovative thinking 

• Encourages new training and self development 

• Report to line manager on work activities, priorities and upcoming tasks.  

• Ad hoc support requirement as delegated from your line manager. 

• In house training and full process support provided 

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