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Corporate Procurement - Sustainable Supply Chain Lead

At KBR, we partner with government and commercial clients to provide purposeful and comprehensive solutions to governments as well as the top tier energy clients. With a full portfolio of services, proprietary technologies and expertise, our more than 37,500 employees are ready to handle projects and missions throughout their entire lifecycle, embedding sustainability at every life cycle phase. Procurement is fundamental to our delivery and collaborating with our supply chain on sustainability is important to build trust, strengthen relationships whilst improving KBR’s and our supply chains sustainability performance. Whether at the bottom of the ocean or in outer space, our clients trust us to deliver the impossible on a daily basis and without our supply chain we cannot do this.

Working at KBR means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions.

As the needs of the world change, we’re ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.

KBR is looking for a Supply Chain Sustainability Lead.

Position Overview / Primary Responsibilities and Duties:

The primary role for this individual is to lead the strategic Sustainable Supply Chain agenda globally across KBR Supply Chain, reporting to the Corporate Sustainable Supply Chain Manager with a particular focus on improving supply chain sustainability. KBR’s Sustainable strategy aligns to the KBR Zero Harm and Net Zero commitments.

To work closely with all business units including government solutions, sustainable technology solutions and corporate to leverage the power of innovation and supply chain to address sustainability topics such as climate change, human rights, environmental protection, etc. at the policy making level.

To foster and develop sustainable supply chain programs aligned with the overall corporate strategy to accelerate KBR’s sustainability achievements both domestically and internationally. The role holder will be required to provides expert guidance in the fields of environmental and social governance, specifically to deliver sustainable procurement and supply chain sustainability programs aligned to ISO 20400:2017.

Key activities will include:

• Oversee delivery of the Sustainable Supply Chain Charter and associated delivery program,

• Collate and report data and information to support annual disclosures to external benchmarks,

• Implement, monitor, and facilitate delivery of the Sustainable Supply Chain Delivery plan.

• Track data to meet targets, reports, and drive improvements to achieve targets including the requirements set in annual disclosures, improvement plans and deliverables required in support of the GHG Scope 3 reporting agenda (related to the Procurement).

• Annually refresh policies, strategies, processes and procedures, guidance, and best practice.

• Draft guidance, tools, scripts for training and maintain the Sustainable Supply Chain SharePoint,

• Monitor and track alignment to ISO20400, sustainable supply chain strategy and targets.

• Develop and monitor supplier sustainability benchmarking.

• Maintain and track sustainable procurement contract clauses and tender pitch book.

• Develop Improvement plans to improve sustainable procurement scores in external benchmarks.

• Liaise with Supply Chain Champions / Key Stakeholders/ Senior colleagues in each Business Segment.

• Analyse data, review performance and report on progress to Corporate Support Services & Sustainable Supply Chain Senior Manager.

• Host regular meetings and manage day to day a ctivities and requests for support.

• Support development plan and future activities to build a ‘best in class’ agenda.

  Required Skills & Experience:

As the lead for Sustainable Procurement for KBR across all Business units, the role holder must have the following:

• A relevant number of years' experience in Environmental and/or Sustainability leadership roles with strong, proactive project management and time management skills; ability to work independently under pressure, and on multiple assignments while maintaining top quality deliverables.

• Experience working in sustainability within a business context including Carbon reporting, decarbonization, human rights and social impact, diversity and inclusion, sustainable supply chain management, water conversation and environmental protection etc.

• Support high quality information and data analysis, provide market insight on best practice,

• Provide quantitative and qualitative analysis to interpret large and diverse data sets to produce sustainable procurement benchmarks.

• Generate thought leadership, drive knowledge sharing and teamwork.

• Act as a day-to-day subject matter expert for Sustainable Procurement to provide effective, credible, and timely communications.

• Seek alignment of practices across diverse business units to establish best practice, develop policies, strategies, processes, guidance, and delivery frameworks to meet targets.

  Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Degree level qualification in related field with additional relevant certifications and membership of an accredited organization (e.g. IEMA) or higher education in environmental sciences, environmental management, engineering, human rights, or sustainability.

• Proven ability and established relationship working with the key stakeholders.

• Proven experience in environmental and sustainability performance management and improvement of the supply chain.

• High proficiency in Microsoft Office programs (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), excellent PowerPoint skills and high proficiency in data analysis.

• Familiarity with reporting standards such as GRI, SABS, Greenhouse Gas Protocol, ISO20400 Sustainable procurement — Guidance.

  Required Competencies

• Ethics/Integrity : Outstanding personal integrity and character with a demonstrated commitment to maintaining high ethical standards as defined by KBR Values.

• Executive Presence : Strong Executive Presence enabling effective relationship building across the organization, up to corporate C Level executives.

• Teamwork : Ability to lead and work as a part of teams on various levels. Shows commitment to teamwork by fostering, encouraging and recognizing it as appropriate.

• Problem Solving : Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Risk Management : Strong risk management skills with the ability to successfully establish and execute complex contracts with joint venture partner organizations.

• Execution : Guides the planning and orchestration of critical tasks across all business units. This includes the strategic arranging of priorities, deadlines, and leadership assignments.

• Direction and Strategy : Identifies long range goals and opportunities for KBR’s sustainability journey. Develops strategy and initiatives to meet present and future objectives. Communicates the goals/strategy and respective initiatives to all global resources. Demonstrates an understanding of customer’s needs, requirements, values, interests, and strategies.

• Influence : Generates commitment to ideas and actions by clarifying goals and clearly exchanging information. Promotes ideas and gains support from others. Actively works to lead, coach, and assist the group. Stands firm in the support of organizational integrity and actively integrates the KBR vision, objectives, and core values into all communications and deliverables.

• Relationships : Understands the value of what is at stake to all parties. Adopts an appropriate negotiating stance to meet desired outcomes. Balances the need for strong customer relationships with the need for company financial performance.

• People : Manages the employees with high ethics and fairness while building a strong and positive culture. Insures all employees have since of belonging and career objective fulfilment.

• Drive : Actively seeks business opportunities that will enhance KBR growth and profitability. Seeks, recognizes, and develops opportunities for creating competitive advantage, developing new business, and new markets. Actively encourages, promotes and rewards ideas for new business. Leads the transition of ideas and opportunities into workable business models. Continuously sets high standards and encourages others to do the same.

• Leadership & management: Responsible for managing projects ranging in length from several weeks to many months and project managing a diverse range of stakeholders. Delivering projects to agreed deadlines and budgets, employing complex analysis to solve ESG supply chain issues.

• Stakeholder interaction & challenges: Regularly interact with a diverse group of stakeholders to provide expertise and progress updates. Support interactions with members of the Executive leadership team. Develop strong relationships with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and at all levels, including senior leaders, will be crucial. Effectively communicate points of view and evidence that shapes Sustainable Procurement decision making.

• Impact, risk, accountability & governance: This high impact role requires professionalism and respect in line with the KBR ESG capabilities in a period of increasing challenge within a framework of increasing governance.

  INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY AT KBR

  At KBR, we are passionate about our people, sustainability, and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a more inclusive and diverse company. That commitment is central to our team of team's philosophy and fosters an environment of real collaboration across cultures and locations. Our individual differences and perspectives bring enhanced value to our teams and help us develop solutions for the most challenging problems. We understand that by embracing those differences and working together, we are more innovative, more resilient, and safer. We Deliver — Together.

  KBR Company Information

When you become part of the KBR team, your opportunities are endless. Through collaboration with our customers, we’re defining tomorrow’s challenges, then providing the solutions and services to overcome those challenges, always maintaining our commitment to total safety and reliability.

At KBR, we partner with government and industry clients to provide purposeful and comprehensive solutions with an emphasis on efficiency and safety. With a full portfolio of services, proprietary technologies and expertise, our employees are ready to handle projects and missions throughout their entire lifecycle, from planning and design to sustainability and maintenance. Whether at the bottom of the ocean or in outer space, our clients trust us to deliver the impossible on a daily basis.

Working at KBR means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions and services.

As the needs of the world change, we’re ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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