Procurement and Supply Continuity Manager
Cummins Inc.
full-time
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Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $133,578 - $150,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Ensure linkage between procurement and manufacturing facilities and serve as communications conduit between suppliers and manufacturing
- Facilitate the supplier capacity assurance process, providing capacity guidance to suppliers, analyzing and proposing potential solutions for capacity constraints, and facilitating allocation discussions
- Manage procurement strategies to minimize risk, foster innovation, and optimize business processes
- Foster communication among key procurement stakeholders across business units and functions
- Lead analysis of key trends and issues in supply for assigned products and provide escalation point for quality issues, bridging Supplier Quality and commercial Sourcing teams
- Identify, plan, and implement continuous improvement opportunities to manage supplier performance and improve plant metrics (downtime, supplier defects, premium freight, supplier capacity, new product metrics)
- Provide delivery and expediting support to plants/sites during supplier issues and solve problems using systematic analysis to identify root causes and recommend prevention actions
- Create and negotiate contracts incorporating commercial requirements and regional laws, driving stakeholder consensus and legal approval
- Build strong supplier relationships and serve as primary contact for issue resolution
- Apply supply base risk management using risk analysis tools and mitigation playbooks to manage continuity of supply, reputational risk, and margin risk
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain or Logistics Management, Business Analytics or related field and 3 years of experience as an Industrial Engineer, Supply Chain or Sourcing Analyst or Planner, Procurement and Supply Continuity Specialist or related position
- Alternatively, Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain or Logistics Management, Business Analytics or related field and 5 years of experience as an Industrial Engineer, Supply Chain or Sourcing Analyst or Planner, Procurement and Supply Continuity Specialist or related position
- Experience with Supplier capacity assurance process
- Procurement strategy management
- Identify, plan, and implement continuous improvement opportunities within the supply chain
- Supplier performance management
- Cross functional project management
- Root cause analysis and problem solving using systematic analysis and industry standard methodologies
- Knowledge of Procurement Ethics
- Contract Management and Negotiations Excellence Skills
- Supply base risk management
- Ability to provide delivery and expediting support to plant or site during supplier issues
- Willingness/ability to work on-site in Columbus, IN and various unanticipated worksites throughout the U.S.