Procurement Coordinator - Level III

Cummins; Pune District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Cummins is seeking a procurement professional to update systems, coordinate approvals, and support global sourcing and finance teams. The role involves data integrity, supplier communication, and driving cost, quality, and delivery improvements across projects.

Responsibilities include BOM validation, change management, and reporting, with collaboration across Engineering, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain teams. Prior experience with procurement tools is favored.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent; college degree preferred.
• Written English communication skills preferred.
• Experience with procurement systems and data management is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Proactively contacts suppliers to maintain data and enable procurement systems.
• Support resolution of supplier invoice and payment issues.
• Prepare documentation for sourcing events and supplier-related activities.
• Coordinate engineering change processes and BOM reviews with cross-functional teams.
• Track change requests, approvals, and implementation status.
• Prepare reports and dashboards for management review.

Skills

Values differences

Drives results

Plans & aligns

Action oriented

Builds networks

Communicates effectively

Customer focus

Ensures accountability

Instills trust

Interpersonal savvy

Manages ambiguity

Data Analytics

Procurement Ethics

Procurement Policies

Procurement Systems

Education

High school diploma

College degree preferred

English writing skills

Tools

Microsoft 365

Job description

Job Summary

Works independently to update procurement systems and coordinates approval and control of procurement activities. Provides support to sourcing and finance teams globally.

Key Responsibilities

Proactively contacts suppliers to maintain pertinent data, obtain needed documentation, and enable suppliers in procurement systems. Support identification/resolution of supplier invoice and payment issues. Support completion, closure, and recording activities for various contracts and other supplier documentation. Prepare documentation for sourcing events. Initiate/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 procurement 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 procurement information as it is created and deliver ongoing improvement of existing data. Identify improvements for business processes. Global focus may be required.

• Responsible for coordinating engineering change processes, product data management, and release activities across cross-functional teams.
• Ensures timely execution of engineering releases, BOM accuracy, document control, and compliance with SOP throughout the E2E process.
• Review and validate Bills of Materials (BOMs), drawings, specifications, and related documentation.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain teams for smooth implementation of changes.
• Track and monitor change requests, approvals, and implementation status.
• Maintain data accuracy and compliance within Part master (P360)/PLM (Windchill) systems
• Support PPAP , sourcing, and supplier-related engineering documentation activities.
• Prepare reports, dashboards, and status updates for management review.
• Identify process improvement opportunities to streamline release management workflows.
• Repetitive Work- Comfortable to performing repetitive tasks and following established procedures.
• Global stakeholder Management
• Communication-Develop & deliver multimode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Competencies

• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
• Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Plans and aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Action oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Builds networks - Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
• 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.
• Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Instills trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Interpersonal savvy - Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Manages ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
• Data Analytics - Discovers, interprets and communicates qualitative and quantitative data; determines conclusions relying on knowledge of business or functional frameworks; simultaneously applies statistics, data validity, data visualization, and problem solving approaches to effectively extract meaningful patterns and business insights; presents conclusions and outcomes that enable data driven business decisions.
• 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.
• Procurement Systems - Recognizes linkage to multiple systems such as purchasing order, payment, engineering release, and quality systems; troubleshoots and corrects issues resulting from data issues; writes ad-hoc reports using tools within each application; identifies and documents work flows and system testing; actively participates in implementation process of new purchasing systems including requirements gathering, design, communication, and training.

Education, Licenses, Certifications

• High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations. College or equivalent degree preferred.
• Written communication skills in English, preferred.
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience

• Requires relevant work experience or specialized skills obtained through education, training or on-the-job experience.
• Experience using Microsoft 365 required.
• Prior Supply Chain systems experience preferred.