Procurement

• Define supplier strategy, including management and optimization of supplier panels
• Lead negotiations and allocate needs to specific suppliers
• Negotiate terms and conditions and transmit information to Procurement
• Manage claims
• Perform commercial sourcing management, including data analysis and negotiation support
• Potentially perform purchasing activities
• Execute policy and strategy using disciplinary knowledge and analytical thinking
• Act as a resource for less experienced colleagues
• Lead small, low-risk projects
• Explain information and develop skills to build team consensus
• Convey performance expectations and handle sensitive issues
• Prioritize information for data analysis and propose solutions to complicated day-to-day problems
• Use internal and limited external sources to make decisions

Category Sourcing Manager – EMS

• Responsible for the respective automotive business unit(s) within Purchasing Automotive
• Manage the regional scope of Greater China
• Support business and strategic orientation
• Manage project and cost targets
• Manage savings
• Manage automotive commodities

项目采购, Purchasing

• Define and execute the global sourcing strategy for mechanical parts and tooling
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, quality, and supply chain teams through the Category Focus Team
• Obtain management approval for category strategies and action plans
• Communicate sourcing strategies to internal stakeholders through meetings, training, preferred-supplier lists, and strategy statements
• Drive execution of approved strategies using action plans, ownership, and measurable KPIs
• Approve the introduction of new suppliers
• Provide quarterly reporting, risk escalation, and performance tracking
• Own end-to-end supplier relationship management for mechanical and tooling suppliers
• Define supplier segmentation and relationship models
• Establish and lead supplier governance frameworks
• Conduct Supplier Business Reviews covering cost, quality, delivery, innovation, roadmaps, capacity, and risk mitigation
• Expand supplier collaboration into innovation, customer approaches, standards bodies, and third parties
• Lead price negotiations across the mechanical category portfolio
• Participate in new product development and design-win negotiations
• Build cost models using cost breakdowns and market price data
• Apply eRFQs, e-auctions, Total Cost of Ownership analysis, cost breakdowns, and cost models
• Negotiate payment terms, Incoterms, flexibility, development funds, exclusivity, and supplier contracts
• Partner with Legal to minimize commercial and supply risks and maximize value creation
• Oversee mechanical and tooling activities from supplier selection through mass production
• Lead supplier baseline assessments and continuous improvement plans
• Drive tooling design, molding efficiency, cost optimization, productivity, speed-to-market, and on-time delivery
• Support DFM reviews, tooling validation, and execution across multiple suppliers
• Challenge designs to optimize manufacturability, cost, and quality

Category Manager

• Develop and execute global sourcing strategies for cabinet systems and related materials used in control cabinet manufacturing
• Take end-to-end global responsibility for assigned commodities across regions and production sites
• Lead global homologation, including supplier qualification, technical approval, and release, with engineering, quality, and operations
• Identify, evaluate, and develop competitive suppliers in China and the Asia-Pacific region
• Drive supplier localization in China and integrate local sourcing opportunities into the global supplier base
• Assess and onboard Chinese suppliers into the global supplier network while ensuring compliance with standards, certifications, customer specifications, and export requirements
• Build, manage, and continuously develop global and regional supplier bases for cost, quality, delivery, innovation, and sustainability
• Serve as the interface between global stakeholders and Chinese suppliers
• Lead global tenders and sourcing processes, including RFQs, supplier comparison matrices, and award recommendations
• Negotiate and conclude commercial agreements, including global framework agreements and development contracts
• Drive cost reduction and value optimization initiatives
• Conduct global and regional market analysis and supplier risk assessments
• Monitor and mitigate geopolitical, regulatory, and export-related supply chain risks
• Collaborate with engineering, quality, manufacturing, logistics, finance, and service stakeholders across regions
• Support compliance requirements, supplier audits, and adherence to the company Code of Conduct
• Represent Global Sourcing in international and cross-functional projects
• Travel internationally for supplier development, homologation, and negotiations

Global Sourcing Manager – Cabinet Systems

• Coordinate with hiring managers, interview teams, recruiters, human resources, shared services, and other stakeholders across talent acquisition and onboarding processes
• Support the requisition lifecycle in the applicant tracking system, including audit documentation
• Collaborate with the immigration team to ensure compliance with immigration regulations
• Support offer management, background checks, reference checks, electronic consents, and communication of results
• Adhere to recruiting processes, policies, tools, legislative and governmental regulations, and company procedures
• Contribute to continuous improvement activities and document processes and improvements
• Schedule candidate interviews and coordinate hiring-manager schedules
• Make travel arrangements, prepare candidate information packets, and create interview agendas
• Support expense processing for interviews and candidate travel
• Provide offer administration support, including creating and formatting job descriptions in accordance with Cummins employment brand

Procurement jobs in China

Category Sourcing Manager – EMS

项目采购, Purchasing

Category Manager

Global Sourcing Manager – Cabinet Systems

Talent Sourcing Specialist