Process Associate – PO Management | Ensuring Smooth Purchase Order Operations
Are you a detail-oriented professional who enjoys working with procurement processes and ensuring accurate purchase order management? Do you thrive in a structured environment where timely execution, process compliance, and coordination with stakeholders are essential? If you are passionate about supporting procurement operations and maintaining reliable transactional data, we’d love to meet you.
Join KONE and play a key role in managing Purchase Order (PO) operations that support procurement and supply chain activities. In this role, you will ensure accurate processing of purchase orders, confirmations, and goods receipt transactions while maintaining compliance with established procedures and service level agreements.
What You’ll Do
As a Process Agent – PO Management, you will support procurement operations by performing core purchase order activities, including:
Performing PR to PO conversion activities in SAP
Managing Purchase Order (PO) confirmations and updates
Processing Goods Receipt (GR) transactions in accordance with procurement procedures
Handling PO cancellation requests based on business requirements
Ensuring accuracy and completeness of purchase order data
Validating documentation and approvals before processing transactions
Coordinating with procurement, finance, and operations stakeholders to resolve transaction-related queries
Maintaining proper documentation of procurement transactions
Managing multiple requests while meeting defined service level agreements (SLAs)
Supporting process compliance and quality standards in procurement operations
What We’re Looking For
Hard Skills
Graduate in Commerce, Business Administration, Engineering, or related discipline
Working knowledge of SAP PO Management / Procurement module — Mandatory
Understanding of procurement and purchase order processes
Experience or exposure to PR to PO conversion activities
Knowledge of PO confirmation, Goods Receipt, and PO cancellation processes
Proficiency in MS Office applications, especially Microsoft Excel
Ability to follow standardized operating procedures and maintain transaction accuracy
Basic understanding of procurement documentation and workflow processes
Soft Skills
Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy
Good communication and stakeholder coordination skills
Ability to work in a process-driven and deadline-oriented environment
Team collaboration and adaptability
Strong organizational and time management skills
Willingness to learn procurement systems and processes
Accountability and ownership of assigned tasks
Solution-oriented mindset
Daily usage of AI required
Why You’ll Love Working at KONE
Work with a globally respected brand and culturally diverse teams.
Competitive pay + performance-based bonuses.
Professional development opportunities to help you grow your career.
A dynamic, innovative, and supportive team culture.
At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
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Skills Required
- Graduate degree in Commerce, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related discipline
- Working knowledge of SAP purchase order management or procurement modules
- Understanding of procurement and purchase order processes
- Experience or exposure to purchase requisition to purchase order conversion activities
- Knowledge of purchase order confirmation, goods receipt, and purchase order cancellation processes
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, especially Microsoft Excel
- Ability to follow standardized operating procedures and maintain transaction accuracy
- Basic understanding of procurement documentation and workflow processes
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy
- Good communication and stakeholder coordination skills
- Ability to work in a process-driven and deadline-oriented environment
- Team collaboration and adaptability
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Willingness to learn procurement systems and processes
- Accountability and ownership of assigned tasks
- Solution-oriented mindset
- Daily use of AI
Kone Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kone and has not been reviewed or approved by Kone.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles and markets, with field positions sometimes benefiting from overtime and strong union scales. Feedback suggests base compensation is often a relative positive even when other factors vary.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs, including 401(k) and in some regions pension or annuity structures, are consistently highlighted as strong. Feedback suggests these elements meaningfully enhance the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core health coverage is viewed as comprehensive, commonly including medical, dental, and vision options. Feedback suggests a global well‑being framework and EAP resources further reinforce health-related support.
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What We Do
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
