Senior Sourcing Manager
Cummins Turbo Technologies
DESCRIPTION
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Leads global category strategies. Provides leadership to cross-functional teams to resolve complex business issues. May manage regional sourcing teams. Defines project scopes, mitigates risk, sourcing strategies and identifies savings opportunities. May also support procurement as it relates to new product development. Implements policies and metrics to ensure the best combination of cost, quality and delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
Manages sourcing and procurement strategies aimed at reducing cost, minimizing risk, and optimizing business processes. Determines and helps businesses manage demand and supplier capacity. Manages regional, category commodity, and/or new product sourcing procurement teams. Promotes alignment of sourcing procurement strategy with business unit and supply chain goals. Engages with new product/technology development functions to provide necessary support (Direct) Engages with businesses to support new plant start ups (CIP) Identifies, plans, and implements continuous improvement opportunities within the supply chain. Builds strong relationships with key suppliers. Validates sourcing and contract activities of sourcing teams. Fosters communication among key procurement stakeholders across business units and functions. Drives total cost TCO reductions across the entire supply chain. Establishes procurement target process and oversees teams’ delivery against those targets. Identifies opportunities and leads continuous improvement activities within key processes. Leads, manages and coaches teams; provides active feedback and delivers recommendations for training and development opportunities among staff members
RESPONSIBILITIES
Competencies:
Balances stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
Global perspective - Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
Manages conflict - Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.
Category Strategy Development - Establishes category strategy using Total Value Performance (TVP) approach to define the Supply Base, Tooling and Technology Strategy to meet all current and future Cummins' needs; Manages risk and inclusion of diverse suppliers.
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.
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.
Negotiations Excellence - Utilizes tools and methods in negotiations to achieve Cummins stakeholder objectives and achieve a mutually agreed upon all contract terms between all parties.
Procurement Ethics - Avoids supplier engagement that may compromise supplier sourcing, selection, and management processes and seeks counsel to ensure compliance.
Procurement Policies, Procedures, Tools - Understands all of the relevant Procurement policies and procedures and complies with them in daily work; Masters all tools required to conduct procurement work. Knows how to access documents in the appropriate Document Management System (DMS) and/or who to ask if clarification or expansion of the information contained in each document is needed.
Sourcing - Utilizes the purchasing functional system to support the Request For Quote process and establish a Total Cost of Ownership comparison of suppliers based on the category strategy and define the supplier that is most likely to meet Cummins and customer's needs.
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.
Supplier Relationship Management - Defines category’s key/strategic suppliers. Manages the relationship of those suppliers using agreed Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) process with established work plan, senior sponsor meetings, and scorecards. Defines and evaluates a collaborative relationship with a category’s key/strategic suppliers to deliver value to Cummins and the supplier.
Supply Base Risk Management - Minimize supplier risk to Cummins by proactively mitigating risks through use of risk analysis tools and risk mitigation playbook to manage three key risk: 1) Continuity of Supply, 2) Reputational Risk, and 3) Risk to our Margins of parts. By minimize disruption and services throughout supply chain. Manage and leverage supplier selection and dual sourcing opportunities as a first line of defense against supplier risk.
Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
Education, Licenses, Certifications:
College, university, or equivalent degree in field appropriate for the function required.
This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
Experience:
Significant level of relevant work experience required.
QUALIFICATIONS
Support supplier investment and development in South East Asia and deliver to global entities.
Develop potential supplier in South East Asia and help them to optimize process and supply competency product.
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