Associate Specialist, Corporate Procurement

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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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