Purchasing Coordinator

**Purchasing Coordinator**

**Description**

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.

**Qualifications**

**Skills**

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.

This role is part of CGSA source to Pay team and person need to work under source to pay leader in CGSA.

Person needs to have following skills to do the job more effectively.

1) Very good knowledge of Vender registration process and documentation needed to register supplier in Cummins system. 2) hands on experience to handle bigger excel sheet and knowledge of excel macro will be preferred. 3) If have knowledge of power BI will be added advantage 4) Very good in verbal and written communication within Cummins and outside in English language. 5) Excellent in Microsoft office tools like Power Point presentation, share point, one drive, one note. 6) Need to be very good team player.
**Job** PURCHASING

**Primary Location** India-Maharashtra-Pune-India, Pune, IOC Tower A

**Job Type** Experienced - Exempt / Office

**Recruitment Job Type** Office

**Job Posting** Mar