Indirect Material Planner Buyer-1st Shift Level III
Description
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ndirect Material Planner Buyer
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We are looking for a talented Indirect Material Planner Buyer to join our team specializing in Purchasing for our Engine Business Segment in Rocky Mount, NC.
In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:
Under indirect supervision, updates purchasing systems and co-ordinates approval and control of purchasing activities. Provides support to sourcing and finance teams globally.
Proactively contacts suppliers to maintain pertinent data, obtain needed documentation, and enable suppliers in purchasing systems.
Document closure and complete recording activities for various contracts and other supplier documentation.
Prepare documentation for sourcing events.
Support work delivering results in meeting cost, quality, delivery, and inventory goals.
Support supplier quality activities with supplier quality improvement engineers, suppliers, and category teams.
Liaison between purchasing teams and other functions.
Participating in health safety and environmental awareness and improvement activities and daily tasks.
Perform any other tasks assigned.
Participate in Project teams, when necessary, to ensure effective implementation of change.
Communicate with the supplier and work with supplier to manage project deliverables within agreed timelines.
Use common process tools and business systems to provide repeatable analytics and reporting.
Ensure data integrity of all purchasing information as it is created.
To be successful in this role you will need the following:
Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
Action oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
Builds networks - Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
Instills trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
Purchasing Ethics - Avoids supplier engagement that may compromise supplier sourcing, selection, and management processes and seeks counsel to ensure compliance.
Purchasing Policies, Procedures, Tools - Complies with purchasing policies and procedures and complies with them in daily work; leverages tools to conduct procurement initiatives; assesses documents for clarification and seeks guidance for clarification of the information needed.
Supplier Performance Management - Leverages functional roles and responsibilities to appropriately manage supplier performance; negotiates defined metrics and supplier management processes to ensure robust management by all functional stakeholders; assimilates cross-functional, cross-site performance data across geographies; ensures suppliers awareness to performance deficiencies and communicates Cummins expectations relative to continuous improvement.
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 Relationship Management - Manages strategic supplier using agreed process with established work plan, senior sponsor meetings, and scorecards; defines and evaluates a collaborative relationship with a Category Partners List supplier to deliver value to Cummins and the supplier.
Education, Licenses, Certifications
High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations.
This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
Experience
Requires some work experience and intermediate level knowledge obtained through training or on-the-job experience.
Experience using Microsoft office including excel, PowerPoint, and word required.
Prior purchasing systems experience preferred.
Pays very close attention to details to ensure proper set up of parts in Maximo part management system.
Additional Information
Familiar with a warehouse ordering management system.
Advanced Microsoft Excel Skills to run and create reports as well as analyze data.
Compensation and Benefits
Base salary rate commensurate with experience. Additional benefits vary between locations and include options such as our 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Cash Balance Pension Plan, Medical/Dental/Life Insurance, Health Savings Account, Domestic Partners Coverage and a full complement of personal and professional benefits.
Cummins and E-Verify
At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law. Cummins validates right to work using E-Verify. Cummins will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.
Job PURCHASING
Primary Location United States-North Carolina-Rocky Mount-US, NC, Rocky Mount, CDC Case-Cummins
Job Type Experienced - Exempt / Office
Recruitment Job Type Office
Job Posting Jan 20, 2024, 12:08:08 AM
Unposting Date Apr 19, 2024, 11:59:00 PM
Organization Engine Business
Role Category Hybrid - Potential for Partial Remote
Relocation Package Ineligible
Req ID: 240000ME