Procurement Category Manager
About The Position
Join our Rolls-Royce Business as a Procurement Category Manager role, 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.
Requirements
- Associate degree and 7+ years of Supply Chain, Procurement, Logistics or Operations experience, OR
- Bachelor’s degree and 5+ of Supply Chain, Procurement, Logistics or Operations experience, OR
- Master’s degree and 3+ of Supply Chain, Procurement, Logistics or Operations experience, OR
- JD/PhD, OR
- 9+ years of experience in Supply Chain, Procurement, Logistics or Operations experience
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Permanent Resident
Nice To Haves
- Long term contract negotiations and drafting
- Knowledge of and experience working with casting and Forging within Aerospace.
- Knowledge of United States Government sourcing
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 strategic tasks by fostering skill development and achieving superior outcomes for the business
Benefits
- bonus
- employee support assistance
- employee discounts
- health, dental, vision, disability, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance
- a flexible spending account
- a health savings account
- a 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
- a long-term incentive plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
