Purchasing Co-Op Positions

Cummins•Columbus, OH

About The Position

The Purchasing Co-Op supports purchasing system strategy and helps analyze systems to identify opportunities for improvement. The role supports the electronic sourcing process, maintains category hierarchies, and implements and maintains purchasing catalogs in coordination with suppliers and sourcing managers. It also helps benchmark and improve purchasing systems and processes, analyzes e-sourcing and catalog usage, and supports Corporate Indirect Purchasing (CIP) utilization goals. The co-op coordinates globally across CIP, provides training and support to internal customers, peers, sourcing managers, and suppliers, identifies and escalates purchasing-system issues, and communicates relevant changes or issues to the global help desk and purchase order administrators. This U.S.-based early-career co-op is intended for students enrolled full-time at an accredited U.S. college or university, actively pursuing a degree, and residing in the continental United States. Students are expected to work 40 hours per week for assignments lasting 4, 6, or up to 12 months. Academic arrangements, including taking time away from classes or enrolling in courses during the assignment, are subject to the student’s school policies. F-1 students in U.S.-based roles must obtain university-authorized CPT or OPT before the assignment begins.

Requirements

Be enrolled full-time at an accredited U.S. college or university and actively pursuing a degree (Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD, MBA, or JD).
Have a minimum GPA of 2.5.
Currently reside within the continental United States.
Be able to work 40 hours per week for an assignment lasting 4, 6, or up to 12 months.
Manage academic responsibilities without compromising job performance.
Demonstrate supply chain knowledge, analytical thinking and reasoning, attention to detail, effective written and verbal communication, relationship management, accountability, and customer focus.
For F-1 students in U.S.-based roles, have university-authorized CPT or OPT related to the degree before the assignment begins.

Nice To Haves

Enrollment in a formal co-op program, if required by the student’s school.
A major in an engineering field (including MET or EET), supply chain, or logistics.
A degree program at the Bachelor’s or Master’s level.

Responsibilities

Support purchasing system strategy and analyze systems to identify opportunities for improvement.
Train internal customers to use purchasing systems.
Support the full electronic sourcing process, including user training.
Understand, maintain, and improve the category hierarchy.
Implement and maintain purchasing catalogs in coordination with suppliers and sourcing managers.
Participate in benchmarking and improving purchasing systems and processes.
Analyze e-sourcing and catalog usage and assist CIP in meeting utilization goals.
Coordinate globally with CIP on e-sourcing and catalogs.
Provide training and support, identify issues, and escalate purchasing-system matters to the Purchasing Systems Analyst.
Communicate applicable changes or issues to the global help desk and purchase order administrators.
Coach and train peers, sourcing managers, and suppliers globally on applicable purchasing systems.