Procurement Category Manager

About the Role

Join our Rolls-Royce Business as a Procurement Category Manager. You will lead a team of buyers to develop and implement global strategies, fostering strong relationships to enhance and improve Cost Quality and Delivery across Procurement. Your creative approach will establish sustainable, long term supply chains, providing a competitive edge for Rolls-Royce, our customers, and suppliers.

You will create and deploy integrated commodity/ category strategies, and associated strategic sourcing and commercial activities, which includes ensuring adequate levels of contractual coverage, mitigation of commercial risk, optimizing commercial advantage, providing security of supply, and acceptable levels of liability. You will manage strategic senior level relationships, creating value and competitive advantage, while coaching and mentoring your team to strengthen sourcing capabilities. This position is crucial for sourcing components for all our products and services to support our Business, with key challenges including supplier consolidation and cost savings.

In this role, you will travel up to 15% domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Effective management of supplier relationships and strategic direction of partners and suppliers, which includes being accountable for managing issues that require escalation, conflict resolution, driving and improving in-contract supplier performance, and reporting out on KPIs to procurement.
• Lead complex negotiations through planning, performing cost analysis by creating total cost or acquisition/ product cost lifecycle models, drafting of contracts and creating business cases to maximize the value proposition across all major categories.
• Responsible for developing, deploying, and maintaining relevant integrated commodity/category supplier strategies that have a clear vision and a strategic framework for the designated supply chain(s) which requires understanding of the commodity landscape, associated risks, and ability to conduct long term planning.
• Manage the identification, assessment, and mitigation of commercial risks within the supply chain to ensure continuity and resilience.
• Manage & lead a team of buyer(s) to excel in their tasks by fostering skill development and achieving superior outcomes for the business

Qualifications

• Associate degree with 7+ years of procurement experience, OR
• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of procurement experience, OR
• Master's degree with 3+ years of procurement experience, OR
• JD/PhD, OR
• 9+ years of procurement experience in lieu of a degree
• In order to be eligible for consideration, you must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Permanent Resident

Preferred Skills

• Commercial, procurement and strategy experience

Pay

$107,520 - $174,720 annually

Schedule

Hybrid working pattern with an expectation to attend the workplace on average three days per week.

Benefits

Rolls-Royce provides a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes base pay and a discretionary bonus plan. Eligible employees may have the opportunity to enroll in other benefits, including:

• Health, dental, vision, disability, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health savings account
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off
• Certain paid holidays
• Paid parental and family care leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Long-term incentive plan

The options available to an employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as date of hire, employment type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.