Knowledge Management Lead

KBR Careers; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR is seeking a Knowledge Management Lead in India to develop and govern a structured knowledge repository for proposal collateral, templates, and project experience. You will lead a small KM team and drive continuous improvement across SharePoint environments and knowledge assets.

The role emphasizes AI-enabled content support, governance, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure accuracy, searchability, and standards alignment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, information management, communications, or a related discipline.
• Five+ years of experience in content creation and administration in proposals, information management, or related functions.
• Advanced MS Office editing and strong English language skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the Knowledge Management strategy and governance framework.
• Create and maintain a centralised repository for templates, case studies, playbooks, and CV databases.
• Administer the SharePoint-based Knowledge Management platform, including metadata, permissions and reporting.
• Collaborate with Proposals, Operations, Engineering, and BD teams to capture and maintain knowledge assets.
• Leverage AI tools to create, enhance, and maintain content and ensure a single source of truth.

Skills

Knowledge Management

Content governance

SharePoint

AI tools

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SharePoint

Microsoft 365

AI tools

Job description

Title: Knowledge Management Lead

About the Role

We are seeking a Knowledge Management (KM) Lead in our India Proposal Hub reporting to the Global Knowledge Management Lead based in UK. and will support in developing and maintaining a structured, searchable, and governed knowledge repository that enables teams to efficiently access proposal collateral such as standard approved content, methodologies, project experience, lessons learned, templates, and best practices. The successful candidate will manage a small Knowledge Management team and drive continuous improvement of the organisation's knowledge assets and SharePoint environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the organisation's Knowledge Management strategy and governance framework.
• Establish and maintain a centralised repository for: Technical methodologies and execution plans
• Proposal templates and go-bys
• Project experience lists and profiles
• Win profiles and case studies
• CV databases
• Lessons learned and best practices
• Proposal graphics and presentation materials
• Own and administer the SharePoint-based Knowledge Management platform, including site structure, metadata, permissions, reporting, and content governance.
• Ensure all content is accurate, current, approved, searchable, and aligned with company standards.
• Work proactively with Proposals, Operations, Engineering, Business Development, and functional teams to capture, verify, and maintain knowledge assets.
• Leverage AI tools to create, enhance, summarise, and maintain technical and proposal content.
• Eliminate duplicate, conflicting, and outdated information to maintain a trusted single source of truth.
• Develop reporting and analytics to monitor repository usage, content health, and knowledge gaps.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, information management, communications, or a related discipline.
• Five+ years of experience in content creation and administration in Proposals, Information Management, Technical Documentation, or a similar function.
• Advanced MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Editing experience – good command of the English language – spelling, grammar, punctuation.
• Strong working knowledge of SharePoint, including metadata management, search optimisation, reporting, dashboards, and data analytics.
• Experience developing and managing enterprise knowledge repositories and content governance processes.
• Experience using AI-enabled tools to support content development and knowledge management activities.

Key Competencies

• Excellent written English, grammar, punctuation, editing, and proofreading skills.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to maintain quality without losing sight of overall priorities.
• Highly proactive with a natural ability to gather, validate, organise, and maintain information from multiple stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Excellent organisational and analytical abilities.
• Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on efficiency, standardisation, and knowledge sharing.

Company Culture & Values

KBR — Delivering Solutions, Changing the World. KBR brings together the best and brightest to deliver science, technology and engineering solutions that help governments and companies around the world accomplish their most critical missions and objectives. In everything we do, we are guided by our ONE KBR Values: We Value Our People – We create diverse, inclusive environments in which each person can feel safe, respected and valued, and where everyone has opportunities to grow and reach their full potential. We Deliver – We are uncompromising in our commitment to deliver innovative, high-quality, technology-led solutions for our customers and exceptional, sustainable value for all our stakeholders. We Are People of Integrity – We value honesty, trust, courage, fairness, prudence and tenacity. We believe doing what’s right for the planet, the communities where we work, and our people is good for business. We Empower – We empower our people with a shared purpose, the right tools and the supportive culture they need to be proactive decision-makers, to be adaptive to change, and to succeed. We Are a Team of Teams – We have a will to succeed, but we value the achievements of our team of teams over individual accomplishments. Our collective focus makes us a better, stronger, more effective company. We have also embedded environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles in every business operation and corporate function. Not only are we committed to operating safely, sustainably and equitably, but we are also committed to using our capabilities and expertise to help our customers accomplish their sustainability goals. Worldwide, KBR employs a diverse workforce approximately 29,000 people strong, with customers in more than 80 countries and operations in 40 countries. At KBR, We Deliver.