Placement Student - Technical Purchase Sourcing - Huddersfield

Job Description

Our culture believes in POWERING YOUR POTENTIAL . We provide global opportunities to develop your career, make your community a better place and work with today’s most innovative thinkers to solve the world’s toughest problems.

We believe in adaptability for you to explore your passions while making an impact through meaningful work within our inclusive workforce. That’s what #LifeAtCummins is all about.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Technical Purchase Sourcing Placement Student to join our team specializing in Purchasing for our Corporate/CBS Segment in UK, Huddersfield. During your placement with us, you will learn how a major global organization operates, gaining the tools and exposure you will need to become an expert in the industry and power your potential!

This role is available to candidates who qualify for a placement year and will commence 7th July 2025.

External Qualifications and Competencies

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Purchasing assigned items and executes buying strategies set out by the function at optimum cost and lead times.
• Analyze sourcing information and present finding for cost reduction, process improvement while maintaining a high-quality product and delivery of service both within the function and customers both internal and external.
• Involvement both supporting and leading various projects from conception to closure within cost and on time delivery, understand and adhere to policies and procedures and champion the VPI purchasing common processes.
• Procures inventory, supplies and capital goods, obtains quotations and raises orders on vendors.
• Expedites orders to ensure that they are delivered on time in full, analyze sourcing and purchasing initiatives, follows processes in support of the delivery of cost effective and high-quality goods and services.
• Engagement in design and process responsibilities to achieve most cost-effective products, conducts minor supplier negotiations, supports purchasing/sourcing management in activities such as price benchmarking, vendor management, process analysis, market and industry research, model building

Additional Responsibilities Unique to this Position

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

• Working towards a degree in Business, Economics, Supply Chain or related subject.
• Accredited qualification in Technical or Manufacturing Process background with relevant industry experience with basic knowledge of supply chain practices.
• A willingness to challenge processes and designs as experience develops, demonstrates working to committed deadlines.
• Good MS package experience and a structured approach to problem solving and of project management, combined with the ability to manage concurrent projects and deal with various priorities.

Working at Cummins

At Cummins, we are dedicated to diversity in the workplace and our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, colour, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, and/or expression or other status protected by law.

CLOSING DATE: Monday 4th November 2024, 11:59pm

About Us

At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, colour, disability, national origin, age, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law.