Associate Specialist, Corporate Procurement

Overview

Supplier Onboarding Associate Specialist within KBR's Corporate Procurement division, responsible for end-to-end processing of global supplier onboarding for KBR teams.

What you'll do

• Use KBR specific systems to process Global Supplier Onboarding for KBR teams
• Follow the structured Supplier Onboarding Process flow from end to end
• Take ownership of the process stages and advise all stakeholders within the process
• Complete tasks in a timely manner in a target-driven way
• Understand and leverage system automations
• Maintain the Supplier Onboarding request system on the corporate procurement portal
• Manage requests from and with internal stakeholders
• Interface with external stakeholders to gather essential information and data
• Follow up with all stakeholders on a timely basis to complete each step in the process
• Create and enhance training collateral for the process and share with your team for review
• Maintain process and procedures for the department
• Focus effort on agreed targets, contributing to overall Corporate Procurement goals
• Propose personal training needs in relation to the role remit
• Actively participate in quarterly 1-2-1s to review progress against targets and in team meetings
• Contribute to improving processes through innovative thinking
• Encourage new training and self development
• Report to line manager on work activities, priorities and upcoming tasks
• Provide ad hoc support as delegated by your line manager

What you'll need

• Intellectual curiosity
• Solid interpersonal skills and experience in stakeholder interactions
• Experience working in a structured, process-driven environment with an interest in continuous improvement
• Experience in global procurement
• 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

Nice to have

• May suit previous experience in a customer service or client-facing environment
• Self-motivating
• Articulate
• Organized
• Proactivity and shows initiative to escalate
• Ethics

Details

• Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
• In-house training and full process support provided