**DESCRIPTION** Manages, develops, and implements programs composed of multiple cross-functional projects. Partners with key business stakeholders to ensure successful project completion. Leads initiatives to optimize supply capacity, improve demand visibility, and manage procurement deliverables for new business start-ups. This role requires strong project leadership, risk management, and stakeholder collaboration. **Key Responsibilities:** + **Optimize Supply Capacity:** Own the overall status of supply capacity for each engine/genset family, ensuring efficient and reliable supply chains while minimizing disruptions. + **Clear Demand Visibility:** Serve as the point of contact for demand visibility, providing stakeholders with accurate, timely information on both constrained and unconstrained demand to aid strategic decision-making. + **Accurate Demand Signals:** Collaborate with global material planning teams to maintain precise EDI demand signals, ensuring the supply base is well-informed and responsive. + **Lead Capacity Uplift:** Spearhead capacity uplift initiatives for complex, cross-functional categories, driving improvements and enhancing overall supply chain resilience. + **Timely Procurement Deliverables:** Ensure all procurement deliverables for new business start-ups are completed on time to support the successful launch and scaling of new ventures. + **Program Management:** Manage and implement cross-functional programs, partnering with key stakeholders to ensure projects meet business objectives. + **Project Leadership:** Lead multiple projects from inception to completion, facilitate planning sessions, set performance goals, and track progress to ensure successful execution. + **Risk Management and Coaching:** Identify and mitigate project risks, apply motivational techniques to drive change, and coach team members to foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration. **RESPONSIBILITIES** **Competencies:** + **Financial Acumen:** Interpreting and applying an understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions. + **Values Differences:** Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization. + **Business Insight:** Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals. + **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. + **Manages Complexity:** Making sense of complex, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. + **Manages Conflict:** Handling conflict situations effectively with minimal disruption. + **Plans and Aligns:** Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. + **Project Issue and Risk Management:** Identifying, assessing, and prioritizing issues and risks while driving actions to mitigate them and maximize positive outcomes. + **Project Resource Management:** Developing resource (expense and headcount) plans using recommended project management tools and processes to manage resources effectively. + **Project Schedule Management:** Managing the planned schedule using the recommended schedule management tools and processes to drive completion within the agreed timeline. + **Project Scope Management:** Managing project deliverables (scope) to ensure that all necessary work is completed efficiently and effectively. **QUALIFICATIONS** **Technical Competencies:** + Supplier Collaboration: Serve as the Primary point of contact to partner with Procurement and supplier management teams ensuring long-term supply and capacity planning in alignment with demand + Project Management: Ensure timely execution of critical activities and manage risk mitigation across functional stakeholder groups + Supply Chain Management: Deep knowledge of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) in a complex setting, to develop demand and supply scenarios at various levels. + Data Analytics: Ensure working through large data sets to make sense of current and future supply plans through a dynamic supply chain network, keeping product lifecycles and sourcing strategies in mind. **Qualifications:** + **Education:** College, university, or equivalent degree required. Master's Degree is a plus. + **Licenses & Certifications:** This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations. + **Experience:** 10+ years of supply chain, planning, manufacturing sourcing / procurement, or vendor management experience. **Job** Purchasing **Organization** Cummins Inc. **Role Category** Hybrid **Job Type** Exempt - Experienced **ReqID** 2408474 **Relocation Package** No