Associate Specialist, Corporate Procurement

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Title

Job Title

Job Posting title: Supplier Onboarding Associate Specialist, Corporate Procurement

Division and/or Project Hook

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

• 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
• Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!