Supply Chain Compliance Manager

Short Description for Candidates

The Supply Chain Compliance Manager leads and embeds regulatory compliance across one or more supply chain functions, including materials, production, inventory, logistics, demand management, and order fulfillment. This role ensures that Cummins’ end-to-end supply chains meet evolving regulatory, legal, and customer requirements while enabling dependable, efficient, and resilient operations. The position partners closely with Legal, Procurement, Quality, Logistics, IT, Trade/Customs, and Business Units to translate regulatory requirements into scalable controls, processes, and systems, while driving continuous improvement aligned with the Cummins Operating System and Functional Excellence strategy.

* Description for Candidates

The Supply Chain Compliance Manager leads and embeds regulatory compliance across one or more supply chain functions, including materials, production, inventory, logistics, demand management, and order fulfillment. This role ensures that Cummins’ end-to-end supply chains meet evolving regulatory, legal, and customer requirements while enabling dependable, efficient, and resilient operations.
The position partners closely with Legal, Procurement, Quality, Logistics, IT, Trade/Customs, and Business Units to translate regulatory requirements into scalable controls, processes, and systems, while driving continuous improvement aligned with the Cummins Operating System and Functional Excellence strategy.

Key Responsibilities   Regulatory Intelligence & Compliance Program Management
Monitor global legislation, regulations, standards, and guidance impacting supply chain operations across regions and commodities.
Build and maintain a single source of truth for regulatory requirements by country/region, topic, and effective date, including version control and change logs.
Conduct horizon scanning through official gazettes, regulators, standards bodies, and industry forums to identify emerging risks and obligations.
Map regulatory applicability to affected products, materials, suppliers, sites, and logistics lanes; maintain a compliance calendar with critical deadlines.
Develop jurisdiction-, commodity-, and tier-based risk heatmaps and early-warning indicators with defined escalation triggers.
Coordinate with industry groups, external counsel, auditors, and internal stakeholders to validate interpretations and share insights.
Interpretation, Translation & Control Design
Translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into clear, actionable obligations with defined ownership, evidence, frequency, and due dates.
Develop decision trees to determine rule applicability by product, transaction, supplier, and route.
Map obligations to preventive and detective controls across Source-to-Contract (S2C), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), quality, and logistics workflows.
Define data, documentation, traceability, and evidence retention requirements, including chain-of-custody and certification standards.
Conduct gap analyses against current policies, contracts, specifications, labeling, and IT systems; propose and track remediation actions.
Flow down compliance requirements to suppliers through Codes of Conduct, purchase order terms, audit rights, attestations, and templates.
Publish SOPs, FAQs, job aids, and metrics to support internal execution and external disclosures.
Compliance Strategy, Governance & Execution
Establish program governance and RACI across Legal, Procurement, Quality, Logistics, IT/PLM, and Trade/Customs.
Develop and execute a risk-based compliance roadmap aligned to business priorities, OKRs, and budget.
Embed compliance controls into core workflows such as supplier onboarding, PO creation, specification release, and shipment execution.
Lead supplier due diligence activities, including risk scoring, questionnaires, audits, verification, and remediation plans.
Define traceability scope (e.g., BOM-level, lot-level) and document management standards.
Partner with IT to define and implement technology enablement for screening, labeling/spec control, document vaulting, and ERP/PLM/TMS integrations.
Lead role-based training, change…