Associate Specialist, Corporate Procurement

Title:

Associate Specialist, Corporate Procurement

Job 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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