About this role
Job Summary
The Project Manager – Supply Chain Planning manages, develops, and implements projects of varying complexity within the supply chain functional area. The role partners closely with global business stakeholders to ensure successful project execution, delivering solutions that advance Cummins’ operational and strategic goals. This position leads end-to-end project planning, execution, risk management, and stakeholder alignment, while supporting deployment of demand planning and integrated business planning solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Project Leadership & Execution
- Lead multiple projects from initiation through closure, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Facilitate project planning sessions to define scope, objectives, deliverables, and performance targets.
- Develop detailed project plans, timelines, and milestones, track progress against goals.
- Identify, assess, and resolve project issues, risks, and constraints using approved project management tools.
- Monitor and communicate project status, ensuring visibility for project teams, sponsors, and stakeholders.
- Manage project budgets, conduct research/analysis, and provide inputs for project design and timelines.
- Document and share lessons learned; apply insights from prior projects to improve delivery outcomes.
Team & Resource Management
- Identify and assign appropriate resources to achieve project tasks effectively.
- Guide, coach, and support team members across project stages.
- Provide constructive performance and development feedback.
Supply Chain & IBP Solution Deployment (Internal-Facing Expectations)
- Drive design, development, testing, and deployment of global demand planning and Integrated Business Planning solutions for first-fit sites.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (IT, Supply Chain, operations, regional teams) for data analysis and problem-solving across program phases.
- Lead requirements gathering and create comprehensive documentation including process flows, training content, and solution design artifacts.
- Facilitate global training and testing cycles such as CRPs, SIT, and UAT.
- Support multi-region deployments across India, China, UK, and North America.
Cummins is an equal opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, sex, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, or other status protected by law.
Other facts
About Cummins
At Cummins, we empower everyone to grow their careers through meaningful work, building inclusive and equitable teams, coaching, development and opportunities to make a difference. Across our entire organization, you'll find engineers, developers, and technicians who are innovating, designing, testing, and building. You'll also find accountants, marketers, as well as manufacturing, quality and supply chain specialists who are working with technology that's just as innovative and advanced.
From your first day at Cummins, we’re focused on understanding your talents, current skills and future goals – and creating a plan to get you there. Your journey begins with planning your development and connecting to diverse experiences designed to spur innovation. From our internships to our senior leadership roles, we attract, hire and reward the best and brightest from around the world and look to them for new ideas and fresh perspectives. Learn more about #LifeAtCummins at cummins.com/careers.
What you'll do
- The Project Manager leads multiple supply chain projects from initiation to closure, ensuring alignment with business objectives and managing project execution. They also drive the design and deployment of demand planning solutions while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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