Processes global supplier onboarding using KBR systems, manages onboarding requests, coordinates with internal and external stakeholders, gathers required information, tracks workflow completion, and escalates issues. The role maintains procurement processes, procedures, training materials, and portal requests while supporting continuous improvement, target achievement, team collaboration, and stakeholder communication.
Title:
Associate Specialist, Corporate ProcurementJob Title
Associate Specialist, Corporate Procurement
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
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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