Strategy Formulation: Participate in the formulation of sourcing and category commodity strategies, ensuring alignment with business goals.

Process Improvement: Analyze sourcing and procurement initiatives to support cost-effective and high-quality goods and services delivery.

Leadership and Coaching: Lead analysis projects, provide coaching to less experienced analysts and specialists, and negotiate select contracts.

Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure consistent application of sourcing procedures, support procurement management, and proactively mitigate supplier risks.

Specialist Focus Areas:

Costing and Estimating: Conduct detailed costing and estimating works to support power generation customer bids and quotations.

Collaborative Work: Work collaboratively with sales, engineering, purchasing, and other functions to perform duties effectively.

Costing Accuracy: Be accountable for costing accuracy on projects bid by the sales team, ensuring precise and reliable estimates.

Risk Identification: Identify appropriate costing risks in projects and undertake necessary measures to mitigate them.

RFP and Quotation Responses: Lead and coordinate RFP and large quotation responses in collaboration with the rest of the team.

Commercial Process Awareness: Be aware of commercial process needs and appropriate supplier management processes.

This role currently has no direct reports and has been rescoped to report into the Proposals Manager - Power Generation. It will have a primary responsibility within Australia with additional scope on some APAC projects in neighboring countries.

RESPONSIBILITIES

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

Action Oriented: Take on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.

Stakeholder Management: Anticipate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.

Business Insight: Apply knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance organizational goals.

Data Analytics: Discover, interpret, and communicate qualitative and quantitative data to enable data-driven business decisions.

Category Strategy Development: Establish category strategies using Total Value Performance (TVP) to meet current and future needs.

Cost and Value Management: Control product and service costs using functional tools to deliver competitive prices while preserving desired margins.

Intellectual Property Management: Assure protection of intellectual property to optimize future competitive advantage.

Negotiations Excellence: Utilize tools and methods in negotiations to achieve stakeholder objectives and mutually agreed contract terms.

Procurement Ethics: Avoid supplier engagement that may compromise sourcing processes and seek counsel to ensure compliance.

Procurement Policies and Tools: Understand and comply with relevant procurement policies and procedures, mastering all required tools.

Sourcing: Utilize purchasing systems to support the Request For Quote process and establish Total Cost of Ownership comparisons.

Supplier Contract Development: Develop contracts that cover commercial and legal relationships, driving stakeholder engagement.

Supplier Relationship Management: Define and manage relationships with key/strategic suppliers using established processes.

Supply Base Risk Management: Minimize supplier risk by proactively mitigating risks and managing supplier selection and dual sourcing opportunities.

Value Differences: Recognize and appreciate the value of diverse perspectives and cultures.

Education and Experience:

College, university degree, or Trade equivalent in a relevant field preferred

Intermediate level of related work experience required.

Detailed costing and estimating experience supporting power generation customer bids and quotations.

Collaborative work experience with sales, engineering, purchasing, and other functions.

Accountability for costing accuracy on projects and identification of appropriate costing risks.

Experience leading and coordinating RFP and large quotation responses.

Awareness of commercial process needs and supplier management processes.

This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

QUALIFICATIONS

This role will be a specialist role within the Power Generation business with a particular focus on the following areas:

-Detailed costing and estimating works supporting power generation customer bids and quotations

-Collaboratively work with sales, engineering, purchasing and other functions as needed to perform duties

-Be accountable for costing accuracy on projects bid by the sales team

-Identify appropriate costing risks in projects for which costing activities are undertaken

-Lead and co-ordinate as needed RFP and large quotation responses in collaboration with rest of team

-Be aware of commercial process needs and appropriate supplier management processes

Job Purchasing

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category Remote

Job Type Exempt - Experienced

ReqID 2408214

Relocation Package No