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Job Description
Job Summary:
Utilizes a basic knowledge of engineering principles and practices tasks to understand procurement needs while supporting early product development activities. Helps identify technology trends and supplier technology road maps.
Key Responsibilities:
Supports in obtaining input of project leadership, suppliers, product engineers, or technology teams to ensure delivery of robust prototype and production designs, technical risk mitigation plans, and coordinated deliverables of new or current product change activity. Assists with analyses in support of the technical product specialist working in business processes of Product Preceding Technology (PPT) and other early product development activity. Coordinate business documents to support supplier agreements required to protect intellectual properties. Engages with project teams and engineering to understand needs for new suppliers and technologies and connects engineering with the appropriate sourcing team. For defined projects, supports as the procurement team member and assists to meet the required procurement deliverables. Prepares information for management and functional reviews. Supports to establish preliminary new product program sourcing strategies for Product Preceding Technology (PPT) or other projects that are moving to VPI.
Responsibilities
Competencies:
New Product Development Sourcing - Leverages new product development process by executing the category team strategy when selecting suppliers to deliver the Value Package Introduction and meet timing, cost and quality targets.
Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
Persuades - Using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others.
Plans and aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
Situational adaptability - Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.
Confidential Disclosure - Protects Cummins confidential information by using the appropriate channel of communication and ensures that Confidential Disclosure Agreements are in place with all suppliers that Cummins interacts with to protect Cummins Confidential Information and to ensure that the suppliers confidential information is not misused or disclosed in any manner.
Cost and Value Management - Establishes and controls product and service costs using functional tools to deliver and track product and services at competitive prices. Ensures competitiveness of Cummins products in our markets while preserving desired margins. Utilizes Total Cost Opportunity (TCO) model methodology.
Diversity Procurement - Evaluates, develops, establishes and integrates global diversity requirements and compliance; creates an inclusive environment that fosters the need for diverse suppliers to ensure a global sustainable and inclusive supply base to meet Cummins and customer's requirements.
Intellectual Property Management - Assures protection of Cummins Intellectual Property to optimize the use of intellectual property for Cummins future competitive advantage by engaging the Legal and Procurement function; assures Cummins’ intellectual property ownership rights are clearly defined in executed agreements.
Procurement Ethics - Avoids supplier engagement that may compromise supplier sourcing, selection, and management processes and seeks counsel to ensure compliance.
Supplier Contract Development - Develops contracts based on the templates available that cover commercial and legal relationship between Cummins and supplier; incorporates commercial requirements and legal requirements in the region(s) that are covered by the contracts; drives engagement between stakeholders following the Supplier Agreement Contracting Process (SACP) and negotiations excellence skills.
Problem Solving - Solves problems and may mentor others on effective problem solving by using a systematic analysis process by leveraging industry standard methodologies to create problem traceability and protect the customer; determines the assignable cause; implements robust, data-based solutions; identifies the systemic root causes and ensures actions to prevent problem reoccurrence are implemented.
Project Management - Establishes and maintains the balance of scope, schedule and resources for a temporary effort (a “project”). Ensures results/impact from temporary effort are fully realized as possible.
Education, Licenses, Certifications:
College, university, or equivalent Bachelor's degree in Engineering or other relevant technical disciplines is required. This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
Experience:
Minimal work experience required. Preferred candidates would have relevant experience working in an temporary student employment, intern, co-op, or other extracurricular team activities.
Qualifications
Prefer to have procurement/project management 2 years+
About Us
Cummins is an equal opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, sex, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, or other status protected by law.
